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Fake Whois used in DDoS

2008-04-30T05:54:47Z

I ran into an interesting, and troubling, situation today where some folks I know received an email informing them that their domain was being used in a DDoS attack on a website in Australia. The really weird things was that the website listed in...

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What the heck is Scarlet...?

2008-04-17T02:11:10Z

For the past two days ads have been popping up all of the interwebs, on TV and (reportedly) in print for some new series called Scarlet. Check out the website and trailer. The Web site is very high quality, the ads are on expensive sites (Yahoo,...

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Interesting Legal Puzzle #1: GrandCentral Bug

2008-03-16T03:33:39Z

I have run into more than a few legal puzzels in my time that would be completely straightforward...until "the Internet" is dropped into the mix. One that crossed my mind recently is the legality of recording phone calls when using GrandCentral. ...

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Xobni to my Rescue...!

2008-02-29T21:56:10Z

I used to use a great plugin for Outlook called "Lookout" that handled the indexing of my email and files (local and network). It did super fast searches, used very little resources, and was free. It was a Microsoft beta program and was only aro...

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e-Strategy online marketing site goes live!

2008-01-30T18:54:30Z

Our agency has a great new communications channel devoted to our e-Strategy online practice. David Erickson, our very own in-house SEO maestro, online communications guru and fellow e-Strategy Director, put it to gather to illuminate new thinking...

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Wikipedia - Excluding knowlege on "principle" = Bad

2007-09-19T18:13:18Z

Wikiscanner has been getting a ton of attention lately. With articles cropping up all over the place detailing editing "abuses" by corporations, the government and PR firms. When you look over these articles or, perish the thought, actually use ...

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The Perils of Corporate Email

2007-07-19T20:16:07Z

I recently had the following scenario related to me by a good friend of mine: Someone sent out at our company yesterday a broadcast e-mail to everyone in the corporation asking if they had a recommendation for a specific situation. It happens oc...

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Twitter or Pownce...?

2007-07-06T08:17:24Z

Webware had an interesting article on whether to go with Twitter or Pownce for your nanoblogging* needs. The article's obvious answer was "whatever service all your friends are on". Which makes a lot of sense. For me, the obvious answer was Twit...

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Digg the riotous PR!

2007-05-03T07:19:40Z

Earlier this morning I was thinking about the "Digg Riot" that happened last night. Digg executives received a cease and desist letter from lawyers from AACS (the HD-DVD DRM encryption folks) asking Digg to remove items refencing decryption keys....

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Zeus Jones

2007-04-27T19:38:03Z

I heard the greatest term in a business meeting the other day... "Zeus Jones!" Apperently it means an unusual juxtaposition. Like, "Wow, seeing Tommy Chong and John Ashcroft having dinner togather last night was so Zeus Jones!"

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