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The Art of the Start Video - Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist and author, gave this good talk on business and entrepreneurship. It is 40 minutes long but it is an interesting look at the VC-backed tech company phenomenon.

Doc Searls had some interesting thoughts on an ongoing discussion of how to save newspapers. Berkman Center for Internet and Society blogs>

George Orwell’s 6 rules for written English in “Politics and the English Language”.

i. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

ideas & links posted by: dan @  26 Mar 2007 22:04

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