Do they speak English in "Utilize"?!

I have given up trying to stop this ridiculous practice in business communications.
Here is the copy editor I have brought in.
He is a communications specialist.

Here is the original context, from Pulp Fiction.
[language and violence notice]

Word is not a vessel for emailing images

Please do not threaten the mental health of the web developers and graphic designers in your life.

• Send them images as separate files.
• Send them in their original (large) format. 
• Better yet, ask them first. 

Let us message against Philip

When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it creative. I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product. When Aeschines spoke, they said, "How well he speaks." But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, "Let us march against Philip."

—David Ogilvy

Data-driven in the Depression

In case you've been curious about the density of Ladies Home Journal and/or Saturday Evening Post subscriptions in Memphis in 1932.

Red = at least 1 in 3 families subscribed.

Google AdWords Certification

My Google Adwords Certification course is really starting off with a bang.
At least one of these three "X" people is younger than me.

A.I. is easy. A.V. is not.

This is kind of the way I felt when I got my first iPod. But I have to give this guy credit for operating his reel-to-reel, in front of an audience of VIPs, without looking at the interface. (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Don't let Stanley Kubrick design your web content!

"So, I went to that company's site," the business reporter told me. "What do they do?"
 Ouch! 
I was embarrassed by that question about my PR client and frustrated that I had little or no input on their site's content. All key pages on the niche BPO provider's site were dominated by slogans, vision statements, mission statements, graphics of world maps, etc., but no clear description of what specialized services they provided.

To put it in terms of science fiction movies, the reporter needed to see a web site that read like Star Wars, but her  experience was more akin to watching 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I'm a fan of Stanley Kubrick's movies and Arthur C. Clarke's novels, but I thought the famous 1968 collaboration between the two suffered from serious gaps in story-telling. Kubrick meant to take a non-verbal approach to the movie, reaching the viewer at a visual or visceral level rather than through conventional narrative.