Sometimes a problem is so bad, the worst thing you can do is talk about it. Worse than that, however, is talking about a problem when you are completely uninformed on the topic. While spam volumes are at historic lows, the amount of email that traverses the Internet that is unsolicited rubbish was still 68 […]
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A FUSSP gets funded
Is a universal unsubscribe feasible? Back in the day, a usenet curmudgeon called it the FUSSP, as in “You have discovered the Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem” and therefore, you are an expert. But that was never the case. Unsubscribe.com believes it is possible, and they convinced venture capitalists to part with $2.1 […]
News for Algorithms
In Dr. Laura, Associated Content and the Googledammerung Scott Rosenberg lamented about the state of Google News, and rightly so. Is Google News useful? Certainly on a good day. Is it human? Not so much. A week after the Dr. Laura n-word controversy hit the fan, Rosenberg typed |Dr. Laura n-word| in Google News and […]
The Dynabook that will eat the world
Could Apple’s tablet announcement really be the incarnation of Alan Kay’s Dynabook? More importantly, is Apple going to win the interface war? Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo (among many others) have posited that the desktop metaphor does not translate well to the mobile milieu. And is the iPad, as J.S. McDougall predicted on HuffPo, a Kindle-killer? […]
