PETER SHANKMAN
| POSTED ON May 31st, 2005 | 0 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
Are you addicted to email? PC World reports that enough people are that they’re responding while driving, in church, and ahem… while on the toilet. "Dear Mike – Just thought I’d squeeze off this one email to you…" Are You Addicted to Email Ew.
| POSTED ON May 31st, 2005 | 0 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
So I was quickly skimming my junk email box before dumping it, in case buried between the "We have $20,000,000 in Nigeria for you" and the "You too can become a secret shopper" emails was something of importance, and I came across this email, about how I should buy a domain name and "get on line." OK. But it had a hot girl in the image. Check it out: So then I started thinking – how many emails have photos of people in them? Then I asked myself the question – where do these people come from? How do the images wind up in Spam? I went to graduate school for photography, if you can believe it. I know that [...]
| POSTED ON May 31st, 2005 | 5 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
Vanity Fair is reporting that Ex-FBI official W. Mark Felt says he’s Watergate source known as "Deep Throat." Intriguing!
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Got to give props to this woman… Laura Stack, who runs a consulting firm, has designated June 2nd (Because that’s her birthday) as "National Leave The Office Early Day." Story here I give her such credit – it’s like, "hey, I’m going to designated a day, then I’ll get press on it, and I’ll make it happen." Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Well done, Laura.
| POSTED ON May 30th, 2005 | 7 COMMENTS | + ADD YOUR COMMENT |
Scary story out of SMU. A professor who kept an annonymous blog about her experiences on campus was let go – the school says it wasn’t about the blog, she says it was. Either way, she’s been canned. Makes for some scary thoughts – what if an employer finds out you’ve said something about them, and fires you for… "not fitting the corporate culture?" With IBM and a ton of other companies promoting employee blogging, my bet is we haven’t yet seen the last of this – in fact, I’m betting there will be a court case before too long – someone gets fired, blames it on their blog, screams first ammendment, and it’s a court case. Anyone agree? Story [...]
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