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Tumblr, Yahoo, and Ads That Don't Suck

Here’s a semi-article, in that it’s more like a rant, but certainly not a link post. If you’ve seen similar stuff in your dashboard, feel free to let me know. Dear Marissa and David, Joe here. I’ve used all of Tumblr’s competitors extensively and I settled on Tumblr because it’s mindfully-designed, …

Yahoo: The Marissa Mayer Turnaround

Yahoo: The Marissa Mayer TurnaroundJean-Louis Gassée consistently provides insight and, perhaps even more importantly in today’s tech-writing landscape, truly elegant prose. This is a great write-up, but I recommend you make Monday Note one of your weekly reads. He and Frédéric Filloux are often …

Yahoo nixing work-from-home arrangements

Yahoo nixing work-from-home arrangementsI was hoping Marisa Mayer would bring Yahoo1 into the twenty-first century. This is one piece of evidence that tips the scales very far in the opposite direction, and will probably cost Yahoo a few good employees. No, I don’t put the “!” at the end of Yahoo. …

Analysis over revision: Kara Swisher's mysterious edits to Marissa Mayer's Yahoo! memo (Updated)

Updated 12:00 p.m: Kara Swisher reached out to me on Twitter after I published this post (her tweets and my replies here, here, here, here, and here). She said she only made minor edits to things like commas and contractions, and that she thought people would assume that she didn’t rewrite the …