Salsa Scoop

What's In Your Wallet? No, Really. How Much?

AOL's pay-to-play e-mail scheme was born to stir up discontent.

The anti-spam nonprofit Spamhaus, whose registries of spamming ISPs are widely used by network administrators, charged the Goodmail toll road "will destroy the spirit of the Internet." TrimMail's E-mail Battles is nothing but cynical. The Electronic Frontier Foundation opened up with both barrels. And MoveOn, which would be on the hook for a few million to Goodmail its heavy list traffic, blasted this alert to its AOL subscribers this week asking for user petitions to strangle the creature in its crib.

 

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12:00 AM Feb 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

He's The One They Call Dr. Goodmail

As readers of this space (both of you) have probably heard, AOL unveiled a new spam-control policy a few days ago to stentorian reaction online. Briefly stated, AOL (and Yahoo, soon) plan to charge a fee per e-mail to deliver mail to its subscribers through a program called Goodmail.

The notion of e-mail postage stamps as a spam control option has been floating around for a while (since postage fees do such a great job of preventing snail-mail spam), but this looks like both less and more than meets the eye. Less part first: it won't cost you, the average user, to send an individual message to yourbuddy@aol.com.

 

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10:30 AM Feb 09, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Old Alternative Media On New Alternative Media

"Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?"

In These Times shows some healthy skepticism, and addresses a very serious issue structurally endemic to the entire progressive advocacy e-vangelist sector:  lack of diversity.

 

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02:30 PM Feb 07, 2006 - 1 comments permalink

Sour Grapes

Hey, Texas A&M! Will you be filing suit against Bill Leavy?

The fraud yesterday was widely observed. Even by a few among the commentariat, notwithstanding the Disney properties' nauseating coronation ceremony.

 

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09:00 AM Feb 06, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

All aboard the cluetrain

For those of you who blog, David Weinberger has posted a very good short list of ethical guidelines for good blogging.

And that reminds me of a rant I've been meaning to go off on for a while now. One of the standard questions I ask people who do online communications for non-profits when I meet them is, "Have you read the Cluetrain Manifesto?" (Weinberger was one of the authors of that.) And I'm always surprised by how many people never have.

Cluetrain has been around for seven years now but its message is still fresh and relevant for those of us who do online communications for a living -- especially those of us who consider ourselves progressives, with all that implies about believing in the power of people to impact their world. If you are among the teeming millions who haven't read it yet, give it a shot and see if it doesn't prompt some new ideas.

 

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01:00 PM Feb 01, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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