What do you do if you're the CEO and president of a company that's become the preoccupation of the business section and you're about to go on stage in front of hundreds of tech moguls, investors, and journalists at "D: All Things Digital" for a chat with the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg? You cue the video!

Here's a short video prelude we pulled together for Jerry Yang and Sue Decker to help pull the elephant squarely into the middle of the room this afternoon at the 6th annual D conference in Carlsbad, Calif. It's a parody of the vast quantities of advice that both execs have been receiving about Yahoo! in recent months. And we got a little help from our friends -- Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, Sequoia Capital's Mike Moritz (our first investor), PBS' Charlie Rose, Sony's Howard Stringer, Intel's Paul Otellini, Dell's Michael Dell, Cisco's John Chambers, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg.

For Yodel Anecdotal readers, we're posting a special version with an exclusive Buffett outtake at the end. It's clear why Warren was invited to cameo on "All My Children."

Yahoo! will be filing a definitive proxy statement and accompanying WHITE proxy card with the SEC in connection with the solicitation of proxies for its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Stockholders are strongly advised to read Yahoo!’s 2008 definitive proxy statement when it becomes available because it will contain important information. Stockholders will be able to obtain copies of Yahoo!’s 2008 definitive proxy statement and other documents filed by Yahoo! with the SEC in connection with its 2008 annual meeting of stockholders at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or at the Investor Relations section of Yahoo!’s website at yhoo.client.shareholder.com. Yahoo!, its directors, and certain of its officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in connection with Yahoo!’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. Information concerning Yahoo!’s directors and officers is available in its preliminary proxy statement filed with the SEC on May 22, 2008.

(Incidentally, this video is the dog that ate my homework and is the reason why you loyal readers found last week's content a bit sparse. I'm a multi-hat operation.)

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