July 23 ‘09 Bullets

Loren Legarda launches a new website, and takes several pages off the Obama campaign’s aesthetic and sensibilities, with the emphasis on change → “Are you ready to change our country and help our world as well? You can start by making my cause your cause. Remember, real change starts in you.” The pukey yellow background aside, it’s probably the best designed site so far.
Still not sure who to vote for in 2010? Relax, there’s time yet; but in the meantime, BongV of Filipino Voices came up with a Kepner-Tregoe decision matrix to help you make up your mind → caveat: qualitative factoral matrices are buggy at best, even in the business world where they’re often used, since assigning an arbitrary quantitative value to a qualitative element is really just a prettier way of saying “go with your gut” :) Where the chart has value, though — and it’s something some detractors don’t get — is that it forces you to think about the values, at least. Remember: mind tools aren’t supposed to make your decisions for you; you’re the one responsible for that :)