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[McCreath_David]

I didn't realize at first that these were the same people that fux0red
whatis.com. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

> pressure from the marketing dept?  absence of a usability dept? 

+1 and +1. Just look what fills the top 200 or so vertical pixels on every
techtarget.com site. How many shops/companies actually have usability depts,
much less a usability specialist, much less anyone who knows or cares what
usability means in this context?

> propeller-heads running amok, i.e. utter and complete corporate domination

> by the technology dept? 

Interesting perspective. I would have blamed it on the designers rather than
the propeller-heads (not that they're mutually exclusive in our field), but
maybe you mean propeller-heads squeezed into designer positions?

> i guess we can't complain too much, though, because in both of the 
> abovementioned sites, the content is all still there (as far as i can 
> tell)

Ah, but what constitutes too much? I mean, yeah the content is there and
I'll adapt to the new look, but now everytime I go, I'll fondly remember the
old site and think "what the heck was techtarget thinking?" Of course if I
really wanted to be an effective complainer I'd send the gripe to
techtarget.com ...

Dave