Get your resumes ready, Yahoos, if you haven’t already. That rumored Yahoo reorg? Oh, it’s on. We’ve heard that Yahoo has hired consultants Stone Yamashita Partners to help streamline the organization. And you know what consultants mean, right? As Mike Judge’s cult classic Office Space reminds us:

TOM: We’re all screwed, that’s what. They’re gonna downsize Initech.
SAMIR: Oh, what are you talking about Tom? How do you know that?
TOM: They’re bringing in a consultant - that’s how I know.

Stone Yamashita, of course, isn’t the big-bad downsizing kind of consultancy Tom and Samir are talking about — that’s more the McKinsey type. But Valleywag has heard Stone Yamashita has been working with Yahoo since the ouster of former CEO Terry Semel. The firm’s known for assisting companies in defining what they do — exactly the kind of help Yahoo really needs. If Stone Yamashita also helps Yang figure out that the newly redefined Yahoo doesn’t need so many layers of executives, all the better.

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David Pogue of the New York Times questions the need for the popular business-oriented social network: “What I don’t understand is: If somebody knows me well enough to e-mail me with an invitation to join, why doesn’t he just e-mail me directly with whatever his problem or offer is?” [Pogue’s Posts]

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CNET blogger and supposed open-source expert Matt Asay tragically misreads Google’s terms of service for Google Apps. An admittedly scary patch of legalese suggests, to Asay, that Google will take all of your private data, take over its copyright, and make it public. But in fact, it just says that if you use Google to host, say, a word-processing document or spreadsheet, and you want said document to be publicly available on the Web, you must agree to let Google, you know, make it public. Why Asay is resorting to scare tactics over this is beyond me. Is he pursuing an anti-Google agenda? Or is he just sloppy? I’m voting for just sloppy.