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...

Click Fraud and the Vanishing $150 Billion

…the small stones are rattling down the mountainside … As I’ve said before, the combination of money to be made on-line with the lure of anonymity, is making the webscape turn, in the words of Wired magazine, from the Wild West into 1920s Chicago...

Bloggers Can’t Be Sued

…thus breaking the heart of just about every self-important jackass in government these days… The legal definition of what constituted a journalist and how much said journalist has to abide by the rules, is one that is going to be wrestled with for decades...