DYLAN TWENEY
Rough Drafts

Rough Drafts

Essays and blog posts I've written that haven't been published elsewhere yet

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Rough Drafts

New tweney report: Spamfighters.

I’ve posted a new issue of the tweney report: Spamfighters. This issue also went out via email to 2,647 subscribers. Although I’ve not published much lately, the bounce rate is pretty low — only a handful of defunct email addresses on the mailing list this time.
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Camera-phone sales boom.

According to a research firm called Strategy Analytics, sales of digital camera-equipped cell phones have, for the first time, exceeded sales of standalone digital cameras: Mobile Commerce World.com “Mobile phone makers shipped 25 million handsets with built-in cameras worldwide in the first half of
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My new gig.

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
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Spam solutions.

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.
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Whining about PR.

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.
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Will RSS kill email?

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.
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