Dylan Tweney

One sad side effect of online life is that the longer you stick around, the more spam you get. This is particularly true if your email address appears online in any clear, unobscured form [Why Am I Getting All This Spam? (3/2003 report by CDT)]. After being online at more or less the same address […

A four-month investigation by Baseline magazine shows that security in shipping ports is almost nonexistent.

Stephen Wade talks about oldtime American music and the banjo.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES WANTED to give e-mail accounts to each of its pilots, flight attendants and ground-crew workers—critical employees who needed to be in the corporate loop but didn’t even have computers. The problem: It would have been prohibitively expensive to give all 30,000 of them accounts on

The Government Information Awareness [http://www.opengov.us] site is trying to provide a total picture of our government

I’m psyched: Starting this week I am executive editor for Mobile PC magazine, focusing on mobile technology: notebooks, PDAs, handhelds, mobile phones, etc. Our first issue will be out in January. I’ll be editing features and the news/trends section. Got a mobile product, a story idea, or a trend yo

Wired News: Antispam companies raking it in. Recent estimates from the Radicati Group show that firms selling antispam products and services stand to make $653 million in revenues in 2003, and up to $2.4 billion by 2007.

Clay Shirky argues that free content is getting better, more ubiquitous, and more compelling. Micropayments will never work.

Mitch Wagner: It seems to me that most of the PR people I deal with are focused on getting me to meet with their client, rather than trying to convince me to write articles about their client.

Steve Outing makes a strong case that email newsletters are dead, and that RSS news feeds are the way to go for publishers. He’s right — but he’s about 2 years ahead of the market.

I’m slow in noting this, but Louise Gl

Coming soon to a blog near you: Comment spamming. And: How to spam back, by flooding spambots with fake email addresses.