Comments on: Getting management buy-in is hard http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/ This blog is really more of a brain dump than anything else - a place where I can shake out my brain and sift through the debris. Like an excited child who finds a shiny nickel, I just feel like sharing what I find with the world. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:44:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Harry Roberts http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/#comment-27020 Harry Roberts Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:31:37 +0000 http://www.fourbux.com/?p=389#comment-27020 Joe, the whole point of it though is that it is nonsense. Because, as you found, real English is a distraction, as is text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here I think you get the idea lol. It's annoying that people find the concept so abstract though. Joe, the whole point of it though is that it is nonsense. Because, as you found, real English is a distraction, as is text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here I think you get the idea lol.

It’s annoying that people find the concept so abstract though.

]]> By: Joe Drinker http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/#comment-27007 Joe Drinker Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:48:43 +0000 http://www.fourbux.com/?p=389#comment-27007 It just escapes me that regardless of how many times the presenter can say "this is placeholder text" and yet people are still hung up on it. I once tried, just as an experiment, filling the space with actual English text, and the client was so focused on what it said that it ended up a horrible distraction to them. From then on, it's gibberish for me. Harry, that's awful. It did make me laugh though. Nice to know others are dealing with this too. Aleria, I've never thought to go through it and actually look for words, but now that you mention it I may have to check it out. Or, just for fun, add some words in on purpose and see if anyone finds them. It just escapes me that regardless of how many times the presenter can say “this is placeholder text” and yet people are still hung up on it. I once tried, just as an experiment, filling the space with actual English text, and the client was so focused on what it said that it ended up a horrible distraction to them. From then on, it’s gibberish for me.

Harry, that’s awful. It did make me laugh though. Nice to know others are dealing with this too.

Aleria, I’ve never thought to go through it and actually look for words, but now that you mention it I may have to check it out. Or, just for fun, add some words in on purpose and see if anyone finds them.

]]> By: Nils Geylen http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/#comment-26995 Nils Geylen Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:08:28 +0000 http://www.fourbux.com/?p=389#comment-26995 Indeed, classic. Instead of standard placeholder text, why not use something that'll look normal, but is gibberish nonetheless, like Jabberwocky or the Kyoto Treaty? Indeed, classic.

Instead of standard placeholder text, why not use something that’ll look normal, but is gibberish nonetheless, like Jabberwocky or the Kyoto Treaty?

]]> By: Aleria http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/#comment-26934 Aleria Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:45:06 +0000 http://www.fourbux.com/?p=389#comment-26934 I will never get tired of people doing a double-take whenever I present something with Lorem Ipsum. And I've been in meetings where designers would bet on who would find the first sex-related word first. Nothing beats hearing *insert dirty word* screamed in joy during an inter-agency phone conference. I will never get tired of people doing a double-take whenever I present something with Lorem Ipsum.

And I’ve been in meetings where designers would bet on who would find the first sex-related word first. Nothing beats hearing *insert dirty word* screamed in joy during an inter-agency phone conference.

]]> By: Harry Roberts http://www.fourbux.com/2008/08/14/getting-management-buy-in-is-hard/#comment-26930 Harry Roberts Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:54:51 +0000 http://www.fourbux.com/?p=389#comment-26930 Haha, I've had to explain this one a few times. I got a frantic call one evening after sending a client a link to a test URL, they were hyperventilating because "it's all foreign". Haha, I’ve had to explain this one a few times. I got a frantic call one evening after sending a client a link to a test URL, they were hyperventilating because “it’s all foreign”.

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