Ruth McCann explores
the etiquette of email closings in Monday’s Washington Post and discovers no convention, or best practices, to guide us. Which makes me feel less bad for being so haphazard in my email closings. Where have the great valedictions—those long sentences, adverbial clause stack upon adverbial clause, each with its own line, so conventional in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—gone? Even the short, “I am, sincerely yours,” brings a note to an elegant and complete close. “Sincerely” is blunt by comparison.
Scott Berkun asks for help calling “bullshit” on himself, and his fellow gurus:
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Interesting interview with Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners at Design Glut.
Coudal Partners’ approach to running their business is both highly creative and extremely brave: Read the rest of this entry »
Make way for the $16,000 per bottle
Glenfiddich, 50 year single malt. Sadly, no
diamond included. Your purchase does, however, come in a “handblown bottle” and cheesy letter case.
This is a quick post to show: a) the shell of a site is up and running; b) it’s nevertheless very much a work in process; c) even so, it’s showing promise. Will be using this as a “notes to self” file until I figure out—probably by stumbling into it—what, if anything, this will become.
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