Category: Spam

  • Grasping the nettle of PR spam

    Spam: a scourge of contemporary life. I’m talking about the digital variety rather than the savoury meat product originating in a mists-of-time, analogue age. Just about the worst kind of spam I see is that which purports to be relevant…

  • Marketers ‘destroy customer relationships online’

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problem with PR email, the results of a survey on people’s attitudes to the email that PR agencies and others send them. The survey paints a dismal picture of how email is…

  • The problem with PR email

    A timely story about that distribution channel so often misused by the PR industry – email. In an article published in Journalism.co.uk (and elsewhere), Iain Fleming, who works for Newslink, a news aggregation and delivery service in the UK, writes…

  • The fragility of the social web

    So it appears that the perpetrator of the denial of service (DoS) attack yesterday on Twitter, Facebook and some Google services was someone who wanted to prevent anyone connecting with a Georgian blogger called Cyxymu. The attack which started in…

  • Less email spam with OtherInbox

    For the past few months, I’ve been using an email service in private beta called OtherInbox as a way to manage email from companies whose services I sign up for. This is especially useful when you sign up for something…