Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Who tells the CEO that he can't write? Sigh. Yet another report on CEOs and others who can't write, and some of the repercussions: What Corporate America Can't Build: a Sentence. A recent survey concluded that businesses spend up to $3.1 billion annually on remedial training for employees with poor writing skills. By SAM DILLON. [NYT > Home Page] Best quote: "I tell them they're allowed two exclamation points in their whole life." (Be sure to read it before it disappears behind the NYT's cost wall.) 9:29:17 AM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

Truth, stranger than fiction Satire hits the big-time: Jon Stewart's 'America' Named Book of Year. AP: "Jon Stewart's "America (The Book)," the television commentator's million-selling riff on politics and other matters of satire, has been named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly."[ Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 8:25:06 AM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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