File this under the category, ?I never thought I?d read this.?
A recent pronouncement from Google states that the volume of spam is actually dropping for the first time.
A lot of people may disagree with Google, but I suspect that there are many ways to measure spam volume and that Google?s take may not represent the overall Internet. Nonetheless, it?s an early and positive indicator that the battle lines against spam can shift back toward the good guys.
A reader recently commented that it would be handy to be alerted, rather than having to check, whenever a new post appears on my blog. As many of you know, I?m a big fan of RSS. For the uninitiated, RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technology that enables you to subscribe to a Web site in order to be notified whenever new content is published. RSS content is called a ?feed,? and can be read using software called an ?RSS aggregator? or ?feed reader.? As you might have guessed, this Web site supports RSS.
There are several ways you can subscribe to my RSS fe (more…)
A colleague recently sent me this post by New York Times reporter Saul Hansell to the Times’ technology blog, Bits, about a new concept called ?Inbox 2.0.? Hansell explores the idea that your inbox may no longer be ranked purely by when messages are received, but by the relevance of the sender. Needless to say, this could have a big impact on legitimate commercial email not to mention spam.
In many ways, I like this idea even though this kind of change can feel very threatening. Anything that helps recipients make sense of all their inbound co (more…)
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