Tidbits are small, until they grow up

• Roubini on bank losses: “If people were not spending their rebate checks in June, what will happen when there are no more checks?” Yep…retail is next.
• Trout are unwelcome in South Africa. Check for whirling disease, and then send ‘em on over?
• You mean subprime lending wasn’t the only problem? No, “Subprime was the tip of the iceberg.”
• Caricatures having sex in purportedly sexless virtual world. Nature finds a way?
• Apple will soon release yet another phone without a keyboard. Or a keypad.

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• Big social networks are failing in Japan. Maybe it’s just because everyone is already too close together.

UPDATE (8/13/08): A week later Roubini is right.

Email marketers are under increasing pressure to maintain ROIs from email campaigns. Even the most legitimate, opt-in-only, pieces are often blocked by recipients. If customers cannot receive the message, there is no reason for outsourced email marketing services to exist.

While the following piece references South African law, one could easily substitute CAN-SPAM (or another nation/states’ laws - see Spam Laws), and follow the same advice.

It is nice to see a “marketing” article recommend legal, responsible measures to get along with the system.

You can get the whole shebang from The art of getting your e-mails into your customer’s inbox.