{"id":186318,"date":"2014-03-03T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/03\/microflaccid-is-doomed\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:35:00","slug":"microflaccid-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/03\/microflaccid-is-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroFlaccid is Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, there is doing the smart thing, and doing the stupid thing, and then there is <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/03\/business\/mark-penn-ex-clinton-aide-moves-in-a-shake-up-at-microsoft.html\">putting Mark Penn in charge of your strategic planning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the biggest shuffling of Microsoft\u2019s executive ranks since the company\u2019s new chief executive, Satya Nadella, took over, Mark Penn, the former aide to the Clinton family, is becoming the company\u2019s chief strategy officer.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The change will give Mr. Penn, who has been an executive vice president at Microsoft overseeing advertising and strategy, a bigger hand in determining which markets Microsoft should be in and where it should be making further investments, according to a person briefed on the change who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it had not been publicly announced.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tami Reller, the company\u2019s executive vice president for marketing, who shared leadership of advertising and marketing at Microsoft, will leave the company, as will Tony Bates, Microsoft\u2019s executive vice president of business development, this person said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the way he handled the Hillary campaign in 2008, when he <a href=\"http:\/\/fdlaction.firedoglake.com\/2008\/05\/08\/mark-penn-thought-allocation-of-delegates-was-winner-take-all\/\">thought that the Democratic primaries were winner take all<\/a>, when delegates were proportionately allocated , I&#8217;m surprised that <b>anyone<\/b> would employ him at <b>anything<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not bad strategy, this is death throes.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2014\/03\/all-windows-8x-needs-is-clippy.html\">Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, there is doing the smart thing, and doing the stupid thing, and then there is putting Mark Penn in charge of your strategic planning: In the biggest shuffling of Microsoft\u2019s executive ranks since the company\u2019s new chief executive, Satya Nadella, took over, Mark Penn, the former aide to the Clinton family, is becoming the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1078,989,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-disaster","category-software","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}