Abraham Harrison friend Joe Jaffe had a tough weekend.

Seems all he wanted to do is just return two defective toys that his four year old son got for his birthday. Unfortunately he tried to do this sans receipts. Nice try, Joe. Ain’t gonna happen.

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Google hates high-design websites. Google needs plaintext. People hate high-design websites after they get past the wow-factor because high-design websites tend to lead with form over function, confusing people with innovations in design rather than innovations in usability. Graphic designers might be the bane of my existence as a technology strategist and an expert in SEO. PR folks aren’t the only people who don’t get Web2.0.

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In light of our latest post on Steve Blinn’s powerful calling out of the many lies his fellow PRs folks commit, we point out one in particular: “We Know Web 2.0″. So true.

Then, Over at Logic + Emotion, David Armano challenges us again by declaring “Content is the next killer app”. He lays in on the line by pointing to a Globe and Mail article in which a Martha Stewart Living media president Wanda Harris Millard laments that their newly designed site is not working out. And it is strictly because of the design. “Beauty’ and a certain ‘look’ were held in higher regard than utility, and the result was a site that may have looked wonderful, but didn’t give its visitors what they wanted.

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Steven Blinn spills the double-secret lies that PR companies tell their clients and prospects
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ZenithOptimedia is predicting that the percentage share of online advertising to advertising on a whole will increase from 7.5% in 2007 to 9.5% in 2009. I’m betting it’s going to be higher. And in part for the similar reasons they do.

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