Unfortunately, the weather has gotten me down this week and I got sick mid-week.  I wasn’t able to attend the November BAAMC meeting, but here’s some other stuff I picked up this week.

Dallas Mavericks owner and noted entrepreneur Mark Cuban was charged with insider trading on Monday.  Looks like a “he said, she said” for [...]

Have you ever actually bothered to ever read some of the subject lines of the ridiculous spam emails you get?  Author Daniel M. Clark decided to do just that - and record all this sarcastic and funny gut reactions to them all in his new book, The Big Book of Spam, available for a reasonable [...]

Spamdexing:

Also called search engine spamming.  It combines techniques employed by some Web marketers and designers to fool a search engine’s spider and indexing programs to ensure that their website always appears at or near the top of the list of search engine results.

I’m sure you’ve come across this without realizing it.  You go to Google [...]

Some varied stuff going on this week.

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson escaped from prison and killed his wife, son, and self, leaving his eldest daughter wounded and the baby unharmed.  Coward.
Craigslist lost a case (by default; they didn’t show up in court) on revealing a seller’s identity who tried to sell tickets to the Oscars this [...]

A bit of a scandal broke out last week regarding AdSense guru Joel Comm’s latest eBook offering - AdSense Secrets 4. The landing page as you can see is one of your typical sales pages that usually screams of scam - at least that’s my usual impression of pages like this. Mark Wielgus [...]