Jerry Yang is out as CEO of Yahoo. In his goodbye e-mail to all of Yahoo, he proves the concerns about the literacy of the dot-com generation are valid. “i” he types, over and over again:
i will be participating in the search for my successor, and i will continue as ceo until the board selects a new ceo. once a successor is named, i will return to my previous role as chief yahoo and continue to serve as a director on the board.
Ow, the lack of caps hurts. This is not an adolescent typing on a cell phone but the head of a multimillion dollar tech company perfectly capable of spouting CEO speak. Later in the memo:
i strongly believe that having transformed our platform and better aligned costs and revenues, we have a unique window for the right ceo to take ownership over the next wave of mission-critical decisions facing the company.
Unfortunately, he’s a lot less capabale of using the shift key. May he find a place where his crazy capz-free-stylz are appreciated.
I always appreciated the style of Rocky Gardiner, the person who wrote the LA Weekly horoscopes. They were lighthearted, popculture-y and short, about as good as you can get for horoscopes. Before today I knew nothing about Gardiner — couldn’t have told you her gender, even — but I am sorry to learn that she died on Halloween at age 70. May she find a welcoming and witty place in the firmament.
