Goodbye 2007
Well, it’s almost the end of the year, so in every industry it’ll be Lists and Resolutions for a while now…
The constant dross is on the goggle-box, designed either to make you conform, or simply to confirm that 99% of viewers are brain-dead like…
- 100 most unappaling songs ever
- 100 mind-numbing sports personalities
- 100 most repeated comedy moments
- 100 innuendos from a-n-other gay icon
- 100 worst farts left in a lift
- 100 ways to kill yourself over a list
etc.
Now normally I have enough to-do lists of my own to worry about, and that kind of cr@p gets well avoided, however the annual round-up of business c*ck-ups from Fortune magazine does at least hold some elements of humour… And CNN have kindly stuck it online for those of you who don’t normally read mags - the ones with *those* pictures in doesn’t really count as reading now does it - no matter how good the articles 
#16
While working on an article about Microsoft, Wired contributing editor (and former Fortune writer) Fred Vogelstein receives a 13-page dossier about himself, describing him as “tricky” and his stories as “sensational.” The document, prepared by the company’s public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, as background for Microsoft executives, was sent inadvertently to the writer
Quoted from CNN/Fortune Magazie
Fortune and The Business are well worth the ~£3/issue - go on, skip a starbucks to buy a copy and get some knowledge inside you, rather than brown slop that tastes like tarmac.
