‘SLAB’ Kristin’s blog on Surfing, Learning and Business

All the time I discover stuff added into things for what seems like no good reason. It screams OBVIOUS but it still gets printed/spoken.

Examples:

• PO in front of a Box number.

• Mob: in front of an 021/027/029 number. For those overseas the distinction between types of numbers isn’t necessary, and for those onshore, pretty soon the distinction won’t be necessary.

“Our goal is to be in a position to say ‘why bother with a landline?”

Hamish Sansom, Vodafone NZ

• Dictating the .co.nz when giving an xtra email address, or similarly .com after gmail, .net after clear etc. (maybe mailer-daemon could be more informative and include the ending required, not just “i’m sorry it didn’t work out”).

• Email: before the email address in a message footer. I can see it’s an email address.

• The www. in front of a domain.

• Amongst the babyboomers when quoting them an email address: “is that all lowercase?”

I’m trimming branding paraphernalia. It’ll be like clearing old clothes out, kinda difficult to make choices, but refreshing once it’s done.

PS. Upon finalising this post something related on the ‘put less’ theme came up.