Susan Mernit has moved to Yahoo Personal, which is excellent news for Yahoo. And since she’s now blogging about the personals space, it’s good news for all of us, too.

And Louis Rosenfeld, doyen of Information Architecture (damn! I just looked up doyen and it means “senior member,” which Lou chronologically is not, but I’ve always wanted to use the word so I’m going to even though it’s wrong — yeah I’m a little cranky this morning) has launched Rosenfeld Media, “a publishing house dedicated to developing short, practical, and useful books on user experience design.” Lou is, unsurprisingly, embracing the conversational properties of the Internet and trying to break through the Cardboard Wall. (I just made up Cardboard Wall. It means that which separates authors from readers. On the other hand, I was wrong about what “doyen” means, too.) (Disclosure: I am on Rosenfeld Media’s board of advisors. I accepted because I like what Lou is doing.) [Tags: susanMernit yahoo personals louisRosenfeld rosenfeldMedia ux doyen]

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