Michael Gracie 

The blogging community has been under heat for its favorable position in search results. The talk has been to segregate blogs from other results, and some search engines have already taken this approach. Bloggers have cried foul, saying such a practice will kill their traffic. All the while, the major search engines have huddled together, [...]

An extended version of this review appeared on Slashdot earlier today.

The Associated Press, along with every other news agency, was today reporting the massive intelligence failure regarding BBBs (thats BIG BAD BOMBS for everyone, like me, who is sick and fricken tired of hearing “WMD” over and over and over). What a shocking, late breaking, scoop filled piece of news that was! Meanwhile later today, [...]

Paul Murphy over at CIO Today put together an interesting piece on the ubiquity of authentication, the jurisdictional and timing issues involved with nabbing phishers, and some of the underlying reasons why the powers that be don’t just stop the problem in its tracks. But hope is on the horizon, from an unlikely source.

Diet patch seller Phoenix Avatar settled charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it violated CAN-SPAM and the FTC Act. The consequences, however, would lead any spammer to believe that CAN-SPAM violations are a bit of a joke.

MCI has upgraded their managed email services for business to include anti-spam and anti-virus enhancements, as well content control measures for both inbound and outbound traffic. This is likely a response to Symantec’s recent jump into the managed email space, and Spamroll will be looking for reviews from the “outside world” on both. Meanwhile..

For those who think they are too smart to get nabbed by a phishing attempt, here is a little test you can take to see how skeptical you really are: MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test. While the test is designed for UK email users (the bank examples include Barclays and the like), in our global economy, [...]

Call me crazy, but isn’t Iowa a little late to the game? The recent legislation includes making it illegal to send spam, as well as steal personal information about computer users. I don’t get it, so I will just shut up. No, wait. I hope they don’t think spyware is something James Bond wears [spywear]. [...]

A recent article from Slate outlines the differences between European and American’s use of email. There are some interesting insights within.

I have often wondered what would happen when the two mentalities collided. On one hand you have the VCs, with rolodexes a mile deep, including direct lines to the best bankers. Any of the Sand Hill Road crowd will do. On the other, you have the scrappy entrepreneurial types, very creative and driven, and often [...]