Digital + Social

The Spam or Ham project, an effort spearheaded by anti-spam technologist John Graham-Cumming to categorize 90 some thousand e-mails into an accurately labeled database of spam and wanted e-mail, has unearthed some dark humor from Enron.

A Utah Republican is trying to get a federal bill passed that would kill efforts by marketers and others to overturn the state

According to Return Path, not only is Google’s contextual ad program not adversely affecting advertisers, Gmail address holders respond better than subscribers to other services.

A volunteer project is underway that has the potential to help spam filters avoid false positives, where anti-spam software mistakenly tags wanted e-mail as spam.

Dubbed “Spam or Ham,” the project asks volunteers to look at as many of a series of random e-mails as they want, and label each as either spam—unsolicited e-mail—or ham—wanted e-mail.

The great national fret over America

A series of five studies by four business school professors from New York University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, asked a bunch of people to e-mail funny and sarcastic phrases to one another and predict whether the messages

Mass marketing may be growing in some quarters, but not among the business-to-business executives surveyed by Epsilon.

An as-yet little-noticed aspect of Google

In its ongoing one-sided coverage of Utah’s misnamed child-protection do-not-e-mail registry, the Deseret Morning News ran a blurb last week headlined “Anti-Porn Registry is Defended” that should have been headlined “Anti-Porn Registry is Demonstrable Failure.”

The Federal Trade Commission last week reported that two of its laptops had been stolen containing the personal information of about 110 people.