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In this infographic, we’ll compare the attributes of spam and legitimate email marketing. We’ll illustrate how spam is an offensive intrusion, while the other is a welcome interaction with high business ROI.[read more]

It's a harsher sentence than that handed to some spammers,but is it enough? Have your say athttp://www.virusbtn.com/news/polls/index clipped from www.virusbtn.com Is 47 months imprisonment sufficient punishment for a convicted spammer? It seems like a pretty tough sentence but there've been quite a few big arrests/...[read more]

NOTE: This is a joint piece, co-authored by John Cass and Jason Falls. It is cross-posted on PR Communications and SocialMediaExplorer.com. The blogosphere has been abuzz this week here and in other places about Gina Trapani's PR Spammers wiki and the blacklisting of public relations professionals and firms. As the discussions have...[read more]

Why Should You Do Social Media? It seems to be a huge topic of discussion. Why make the effort to do social media? Why spend your money on social media strategies and campaigns? Why optimize my company within social media? Why do it at all? Here's five reasons not to do it. 1. You, yourself, do not understand, like or even tolerate...[read more]

TechCrunch posted a very interesting guest post today by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, who talks about the tactics his company uses to drive people to view videos on YouTube. Greenberg co-founded The Comotion Group, a "viral marketing" firm. He boasts that in the past three months he's achieved 20 million views for his clients. However, I'm...[read more]

“A new spam blocker called Defensio is attempting to improve on the standard set by Automattic's Akismet, the default blocker for WordPress” - reports  TechCrunch. But they are planning to do more than improve… they want to replace Akismet.  From Defensio's FAQ: Is Defensio a replacement for Akismet?Yes...[read more]

Facebook has revealed details of how it's going to spam the heck out of its users through targeted ads. Now we know why they don't want any Donald Duck or Darth Vadar persons registering on the site. If you read the TechCrunch report, you might be tempted to think Mark Zuckerberg, CEOs FaceBook has announced the Second Coming. I”m...[read more]

Imagine life without e-mail. When Ray Tomlinson invented e-mail in 1971, I doubt he wanted to create the single biggest source of information overload in the enterprise. Is social media/E2.0 the way to kill e-mail overload, bacn included? Well, ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend [read more]

Well, our shiny metallic friends (and future overlords) can't cast a ballot just yet, but you've got to love a story that starts off like this: If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according...[read more]