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Thursday, November 14, 2002

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Viral Marketing Roundup.

ExecutiveSummary.com: Fun With Viruses

Five sites that track the best of viral marketing, giving your advocacy campaigns an extra boost.

[marketingfix]

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Search Tools News 

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User Search Behavior Seminar.
Whitney Quesenbery will present "Looking, Finding, Searching -- How Users Do It", a seminar designed to help web site administrators understand the search function as one element in the users' tool kit of information-gathering methods. Results of a series of usability tests on search behavior helped form the basis for this model. The telephone seminar is on Tuesday, November 19, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -5), and is sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication. Cost per site is USD $155, Canadian $175, others contact the STC at http://www.stc.org/seminars.asp. [SearchTools News for 2002]

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AntiSPEWS.org

Attention all e-mail and

network administrators: Don't use the list provided by SPEWS (spews.relays.osirusoft.com) to filter out e-mail.

What's this all about? J:L

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Search Engine Usage Ranks High
Search Engine Usage Ranks High. Internet users who still haven't found what they're looking for may need to go beyond the first couple of pages of results. [CyberAtlas]

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The Inverse of Googlism.

GooglePeople will take a "who is" question (like Who is the founder of Google?) and give you back a list of potential people. Fun!... [Google Weblog]

Do you know where you stand in Google? Check it out, you might be surprised.

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Reuters: "Grass-roots publishing tools are putting the power of authorship in the hands of millions." [Scripting News]

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FTC Announces Crackdown on Spammers
FTC Announces Crackdown on Spammers.

FTC Release: Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcers Tackle Deceptive Spam and Internet Scams

CNET: FTC takes aim at spam, Net fraud - Tech News - CNET.com

A coalition of government regulators led by the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a crackdown on online spammers and scammers.

With the sleazy, squirley nature of most spammers, I don't know how well this new initiative will be enforced. I do welcome it though. But until it makes any serious headway, I'll continue to use my own user level spam blocking tools. (Related: Fight back with anti-advertising software)

UPDATE: Boston Globe: State to Target Internet Spam

Citing the results of a joint federal-state investigation, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly Wednesday said he will seek a new anti-spam law to help him crack down on unsolicited Internet e-mails.

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