Digital + Social

One of the great ironies of e-mail marketing is how vilified for-profit businesses have been in the spam debate over the years when non-profits and politicians are some of the worst offenders.

Case in point: a dummy address I set up during the presidential primaries last year and registered for e-mail communications from every single viable candidate.

As reported here before, the address is getting a lot of unsolicited political e-mail representing the full spectrum of American political ideology.

What

Another Christmas-shopping season, another call from the Adbusters Media Foundation to

AOL made an announcement last week about its enhanced whitelist

In the early days of social media, it might have been okay to bow to peer pressure and be out there simply because everyone else was doing it. But times

A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Australia-based alleged leader of a worldwide spamming network to pay more than $15 million to settle charges against him, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.

I am happy to report that some wise guy or guys (or gal/s) have created a Twitter account under the name FakeKenMagill chiding me for an article I wrote a while back headlined: “Why I Don’t Tweet.”

Thankfully, whoever did this chose the more flattering photo of me that resides on Direct.com as opposed to the one taken from below that begs the exclamation: “Whoa! Look at the chins on that guy!”

That anyone would take the time to bust my chops this way is truly an honor. Thank you whoever you are. I am flattered and humbled.

But in any case, let’s say I do change my mind one day. What would the real Ken Magill’s tweets be like?

Whoa! Now lookee what we have here. Another courtroom victory for the Can Spam Act: you know, that anti-spam law that

One of the most irritating printed communications

In a move that, for now at least, threatens e-mail marketers