I spoke with about 75 marketing executives at lunch today. Perhaps it was that double espresso at 11, but for some reason I got really wound up and I think I jumped up on a table at one point and started pounding my fists and began to yell at them that their metaphors sucked. Actually (and this is where it gets foggy and I go into denial) I think I projected up on the screen in giant letters: Your Metaphors Suck. As I’ve received several extremely kind e-mails this afternoon from people who attended, I have decided that people really like to be told their metaphors suck. (For those not attending, the metaphors I was referring to are the ones from offline — ‘pages,’ ‘views,’ ‘visits’ — misused when trying to understand those facets of the Internet to which we now apply the term “social media.” Tame stuff unless you catch me in full rant-mode.)

(via: CNET’s News.com) After the good news Monday that his wife and daughters had been rescued where their car had become disabled 11 days ago, today the body of missing CNET editor James Kim was found. Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness and was found at approximately noon Wednesday about half a mile from the Rogue River, authorities said. He left his family’s stranded car Saturday morning searching for help and never returned. Kim’s 30-year-old wife, Kati, and daughters Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months) have been reunited with family members.