Google Says Spam is Slowing

File this under the category, “I never thought I’d read this.”

A recent pronouncement from Google states that the volume of spam is actually dropping for the first time.

A lot of people may disagree with Google, but I suspect that there are many ways to measure spam volume and that Google’s take may not represent the [...]

Keeping up With my Blog

A reader recently commented that it would be handy to be alerted, rather than having to check, whenever a new post appears on my blog. As many of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS. For the uninitiated, RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technology that enables you to subscribe to a Web [...]

Inbox 2.0

A colleague recently sent me this post by New York Times reporter Saul Hansell to the Times’ technology blog, Bits, about a new concept called “Inbox 2.0.” Hansell explores the idea that your inbox may no longer be ranked purely by when messages are received, but by the relevance of the sender. Needless to say, [...]