I agree with Om on this, as spam keeps growing in proportion to emails sent, we need a new way to send email.
A new mechanism to verify the sender, to quickly blacklist and abolish spam and other erroneous messages needs to be created and implemented. The existing email protocols don’t have anything within the messaging sending/receiving structure to validate a message.
Who’s up for the challenge!?!
Via: GigaOM – Spam is sucking life out of Email
Super cool – a real newscast delivered by a virtual news crew. This does have tremendous applications in the future as the technology develops and matures.
Steve Rubel gives a nice perspective and asks one hard question as to how this will impact existing PR pros.
The key question that runs through my mind is this. If a virtual reporter can report the news in a compelling way and it’s all all automated, what does that mean for PR professionals?
What interests me is if this type of news delivery vehicle does become viable, can we finally get the news without the presenters political take on the topic? That would be a great service to everyone – strait news, no spin by the over-paid hack reading the script. Of course, a virtual environment such as this could also be programmed to present in a certain way – and the news is only as accurate as the source it comes from. More to think about on how reliable this system could be.
Still, I find it refreshing and new – hope to use something like this some day. Read more at Micro Persuasion: Virtual News at Seven
Really, I’m starting to wonder if the staff over at eWeek’s Microsoft Watch has any fun, or if they simply get off writing things like Study: Just Six Percent of American Business PCs can run Vista Premium, or Yet Another View on Vista Adoption, or CIOs: Vista Will Need Heftier Hardware.
I know that covering Microsoft is their job, but it gets a little old when they keep talking about how barely 10% of corporate PC can run “Vista Premium”, or how Microsoft’s prophecy of Vista adoption is overblown.
Guess I just get tired of trade magazines that state the obvious – kind of the same issue I have with Gartner.
The Wall Street Journal has a nice debate-style article with input from Robert Scoble and Dave Winer. Debating on the idea of whether Microsoft innovates or not.
Not sure that there is a clear answer there, but it certainly brings out some very good points, and perspectives.
Via: The Wall Street Journal – Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals?
Alright, its that time of year again when I start wondering if I can make Linux box my main computer. I’m going to try just that for the month of December, use Fedora Core 6 as my main OS, and try to stick to using all web-based tools for the majority of my needs.
I’ll admit to everyone right up front, I will keep my desktop system on Windows XP with Office 2003, mainly because I occasionally need Photoshop, Visio, and one or two other unique apps. But I’ll try to do as much natively in Linux as possible.
I’ve a favor to those of you who are interested – can you give me suggestions on the following? I’m looking for these tools on Linux to help ease my December sojourn into Linux.
Any comments, suggestions, jeers or cheers can go in the comments. I’ll be backing up my data from my Vista laptop, wiping the HDD, and installing FC6 this week.
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“We are not enemies but friends.”
Live your life.
Completely.
Without fear.
Live it with Love, compassion, empathy, tolerance and joy.
Treat every person with the kindness, respect and dignity they deserve by the very virtue of being a human being.
Out riding this rainy, wet spring. Got 1,000 miles on the clock with more to come this season. #IMRG #IndianMotorcycle
Watching early seasons of #GoldRush. Fun seeing @GoldrushRick in season 3! Hope his new season is off to a good start!
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