Spam 2.0: The Bad Guys Get Trickier

I was wondering WTF was up with all the goddam spam lately. I had chalked it up as just being symptomatic of the Christmas season, when retailers, online and off, all hawk their wares. Apparently, not.The big problem these days is that the spammers have enlisted an...

The Newspaper Industry’s Sleighride to Hell

You gotta love any article about the incredible shrinking newspaper audience that includes this graf: If you agree with me that the newspaper business has been on a slow, unstoppable train ride to hell for many decades and that the Web has only accelerated its...

I wanna go on the Ferris Wheel…

Blogcarnival? Isn’t that like a flea circus?I’m not sure if this is smart, or smacks of flopsweat desperation.  Which probably means that I’ll try it while being somewhat revulsed with myself for trying it. To be charitable, a Blogcarnival is an...