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Day: March 1, 2008

Never Meant To See the Light of Day

If you work for a company where email is a primary means of communication, chances are good you’ve read or been involved in conversation that was never meant to be visible to anyone ‘outside the building’. Yet, it’s just too easy to click the ‘forward’ button and push an internal message to someone on the outside.

And it often happens to the big boys.

Through the years, and unintentionally, Microsoft has given the public a peek under their dress. It ain’t pretty.

Todd Bishop over at the Seattle P-I blog highlights the top 5 internal emails at Microsoft. So, voyeurs, head on over and look through the Windows @ microsoft.com.

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Microsoft, Internal Communication, Email, Bill Gates, Jim Allchin

Ridiculous

Ann Althouse posts a comment from a reader who noticed that the letters “NIG” appear on the pajamas of the children in Hillary Clinton’s ‘red phone‘ political ad. The commenter asks why the letters are visible, an intimation that racism is afoot. Rather than dismiss the notion outright, Althouse gives legs to the idea that the message could be subliminal and that the campaign is somehow responsible for sending a signal.

To believe this is an intentional move on the part of the Clinton campaign is absurd.

Sometimes bloggers go too far to stir the pot. In this instance, Althouse has her hands on a mighty big spoon.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Racism, Althouse, Bloggers

There’s No ‘There’ There

The silence was deafening.

Hillary Clinton has made a point to highlight what she believes is her superior experience to deal with world crisis. Her recent ad clearly intimated that you won’t even have to worry about your own children if she’s in the White House dealing with a ‘big problem’ (which of course, means Terrorism).

Funny thing though – when a reporter asked her five star political team to name one foreign policy moment in Hillary’s career where she has been tested by crisis, they were caught completely off guard. There was nothing there.

Just as the surrogate for Barack Obama was similarly caught flat footed, both candidates have a vacant record on real foreign policy experience. John McCain could eat them alive on this subject, and you can bet the GOP will be sure to keep foreign policy on the forefront of the general election debate.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy