That's one of the goofiest articles I've ever read. So good corp-speak quotes, though.

Perhaps the only good news to come out of Michigan this year.

How can you not like an article that starts with a Jackie Mason quality joke?

Raising chickens and runner ducks.

In western Michigan, a job listing.

Excellent deconstruction of a Whole Foods presentation. I'm a bit shocked that a CEO would come to Berkeley with PPT slides containing ugly Excel charts that are impossible to understand unless you were sitting in front of the monitor.

He's a CEO. I'd be shocked if he didn't come to a presentation with PPT slides & Excel chart combination. :)

On a more serious note, I think the idea that PPT slides full of text are helpful is basically entrenched in corporate culture. I wish everyone used Lessig's approach.

That's what I thought as well. It reminded me of the Joel Spolsky article, or was it his interview on Venture Voice -- anyway, he talked about Quattro Pro coming out with a much cheaper price than Excel. Spolsky worried about what that would do to Excel. The business guy said not to worry; we just beat them.

If your competitor is paying for customers in this era of free, than I wonder if this scenario is the equivalent. I wonder how the Live dev team is feeling about this. Do they now know what it feels like to be on the Quattro Pro team before their product shrank to single-digit market share?

I may be blind, stupid, etc., but I couldn't print. Couldn't find the menu item and ctrl+p didn't work.

Here's the meat:

"I learned a very important lesson here, one that my friend Jason Calacanis said at the OPML Road Show in NYC in 2005. If a deal is worth doing, it's worth documenting with a good agreement."