Yesterday, I did some browsing of the web analytics for this blog to get comparison numbers for the browser stats I had for Connect. Today, I went back to do a little more digging and some navel-gazing 🙂 We use Google Analytics, which I prefer to Mint for web metrics. It has loads of metrics… Read More
Tag: spam
Who Benefits from Blog Comment Spam?
Over the last month or so, blog comment spam has surged here. You may have noticed, or not. I try to mark the ones that Disqus doesn’t trap, but some inevitably leak through into the wild. Not a big deal to me really because they’re more annoying than offensive. Initially, I thought that spammers had… Read More
Reply-All RIFF’ed
When I read this one, I had to wonder if April 1 had come early. “Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button” But it’s true. Nielsen’s CIO sent a memo alerting all Nielsen employees that that they “Reply to All” feature from Microsoft Outlook, their corporate email client. Oh, the irony if the memo had been an email.… Read More
Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Someone sends an email to a distribution list. Someone replies to all, and people start asking for removal, also replying to all. Snarky comments ensue. Inbox is stuffed with replies to all. You know the drill. So, yesterday morning, someone sent an innocuous request to a sales distribution… Read More
Do You Zombie Reply to All?
I’ve mused in the past about whether spam is really a problem or not. I find it a minor annoyance that I can easily ignore, like ads, but I can see how it would be both annoying in some situations and in others, a major problem. Spam in my work inbox is limited mostly to… Read More
Does Spam Irritate You?
Mix is reaching more people now, especially through groups. This is great because we always thought groups would be the best way to draw people into the network and conversation. Implied levels of trust within a group make it easier to engage and provide value to people who ordinarily have no use for social networks… Read More
Does Spam Still Work?
I got a 419 email today in my work inbox. This is pretty rare, since I guess Global IT does a great job catching spam, especially compared to my webmail accounts. Normally, in my webmail, I’d just delete an move on, but since this is so rare in my work inbox, I read the mail,… Read More