#spam (28 links)
- Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
This is absolutely classic passive-income brainworms thinking. "I have a bot that can turn out plausible sentences. I will locate places where sentences can be exchanged for money, aim my bot at it, sit back, and count my winnings." It's MBA logic on meth: find a thing people pay for, then, without bothering to understand why they pay for that thing, find a way to generate something like it at scale and bombard them with it.
When you can only have 1% of your list unsubscribe, it means that you cannot use a service like MailChimp to clean up your list. They will shut your ass down, hard. You’ll get one warning, and that’s it.
- Think Vitamin » Fail Safe Email Delivery for Web Apps thinkvitamin.com
Info on how to configure DNS etc for safe mail sending from apps. Bit of a shill for the Postmark app, mind.
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
- Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT) techcrunch.com
Human conversation is the last area of communication to hold out against the relentless march of commercialisation and it’s our duty, as humans, to make sure it stays that way. So, screw consensus. And shame on me for starting to lean towards it yesterday. Give me ad-free conversation, or give me death.
- Bad Behavior 2 « Lunacy Unleashed error.wordpress.com
Identifies and blocks malicious activity, including blog/wiki spam, e-mail address harvesting, automated cracking attempts, and more. It does all of this looking only at the HTTP request headers; for POST data, the content of the spam is not analyzed at all.
- Light pollution is complicated part 2 (or okay, do blame it on the lighting designer) - Headlessness headlessness.com
What if there was some shift in emphasis from designing for the building, to designing for the community, or the wider urban space? If everyone could agree just to turn the lighting down a bit, or even a lot, night-time city centres could become much less competitive, noisy places in terms of ambient light.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: screens in context anti-mega.com
Whilst the advertising industry has one of the longest histories of trying to understand interaction, it’s a very different set of tools that digitalness brings; ones that designers at the coal face of web and mobile encounter every day. Everything can be considered in context, be timely, reactive, and data-driven. I’m going to try to outline some dimensions to think about, with some incredibly quick, simple, off the cuff dumb ideas (All brands are impersonated. Badly.) that hopefully push the advertising into being more useful or interesting.
- Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit mashable.com
That's a matter of opinion. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
- The new rules of viral marketing - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic brandrepublic.com
Marketers are responsible for any unsolicited marketing messages they send which do not comply with data protection rules. Guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) stresses that the customer who passes a friend's details to the advertiser must confirm that they obtained the friend's consent. Marketers should check the friend is not already on a marketing suppression list and should tell customers that they will tell the friend how their contact details were obtained. If the friend objects having received the message, the marketer must rapidly suppress his contact details.
Interesting. Hadn't considered the possible legal implications of 'send to a friend' before.
- Coding Horror: Designing For Evil codinghorror.com
"When you design your software, work under the assumption that some of your users will be evil. They'll be out to game the system, to defeat it at every turn, to cause denial of service exploits, to attack and humiliate other users, to fill your site with
- Twitter Twerp Scan twerpscan.com
Helps block the more obvious Twitter spammers.
Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.
What you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.
- Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com socialmarker.com
"It can help you spread a link on 32 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!" Pure evil.
To avoid being painted with the same brush as the bad guys, there are a few pitfalls to avoid when it comes to maintaining your most precious treasure, your list of opted-in addresses.
Identifies the problematic parts of your message and makes recommendations for changes.
- MPS online mpsonline.org.uk
Mailing Preference Service
- Mail relay testing abuse.net
- jesus is a pervert: Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits! jesus-is-a-pervert.blogspot.com
- TPS Registration tpsonline.org.uk
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive
- The Daily Whim: MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site photodude.com