And Now a Folksy Update From Carol Bartz, Massive Outage Relegated to ?PS?

Talk about burying the lead. For your Friday reading pleasure, the latest memo from "fearless leader" Carol Bartz, talking up how far the company has come and how the outage just proved how important Yahoo is. Read it for yourself:

"There sure are a lot of folks writing about us. There are some pretty incredible stories out there. �I?m not letting it distract me, and you shouldn?t either. Because the really incredible story to me is how far we?ve come to build a better Yahoo! ? something you?re all making a reality.

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