PSoTD

Seriously, Comcast - you have to give the users the option of how they want to use the spamfilter. Comcast shouldn't haphazardly block legitimate email - and Comcast is doing just that.

In all honesty, I think use of spamfilters by ISPs should be an issue looked at by the Congress, except I'm afraid of what this Congress might end up doing to these non-truck tubes.

Is Comcast really blanket blocking all email determined as "spam" in Brightmail and not providing them as a junk folder so that each user can make the determination of spam?

Are they really being that clumsy towards legitimate forwarding mailservers?

If you use Comcast, do you know what legitimate email you're not getting?

This sure sounds like wishful thinking by competitors as they talk about the problems Dell is having...

Newspapers could do a lot worse than asking the barbers in their area to consider blogging about local items in exchange for advertising in their newspaper. For anyone that doesn't go to a popular barber, it's amazing how much local news/opinion and most importantly, deals and tips, are discussed there. Barbers are insiders to a subset of the local community, and seem like a great source of content for blogging.

This article suggests that new tools on the market may force Google's hand.

It seems to me there needs to be some sort of online meeting place for projects involving political blogs, which for shorthand I'll call blogjects. It isn't so much a place to discuss possible blogjects, but a place to look for people and resources to participate and for volunteers to find out about them.

For example, earlier this year I embarked on a blogject to convince the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) that they needed to incorporate a blog into their programming. I needed volunteers, mostly to post content about programming and activities by PCN, and I tried several things. I posted about it to DailyKos as a diary, I posted to PhillyFuture as an article, and I emailed several Pennsylvania bloggers that follow Pennsylvania government and politics. A few bloggers agreed to participate, but without the efforts of one (Bill Bostic) there would not have had enough content to make this blogject actually work.

If there had been programming or other technical expertise needed that was beyond my abilities, it probably wouldn't have worked either.

Anyone know of such a place? This seems like the kind of programming/hubbing idea that would interest Kos, but I think this kind of site should be more like Craigslist and less like any particular political blog. Isn't this a natural step in the evolution of grassroots blogging that's time has come?

already know it deep down, but should still read The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch.

Alternet has more.

An article in the Harrisburg Patriot-News today covers what local celebrities use for their cell phone ring. The whole idea of buying a different ring tune seems somewhat alien to me. But then, I use my cell phone differently than most other folks.

First of all, I only give the number to folks who I expect will be calling me while I'm on the road. I've had my current cell phone number for three years or so, and I doubt more than 6 or 7 people have my cell phone number, and I'm fine with that.

Secondly - I rarely have my cell phone on unless I'm making a call or expecting a call, or am checking for messages. My wife thinks this is odd, my friends as well, but I don't really care. I see the cell phone as primarily my way of contacting someone else - and not the other way around. Life is full of interruptions as it is, and this is one I can control - so I usually do.

I see they're in the news again. Is there really any business strategy argument out there that indicates that AOL can be the big winner in any internet-related business segment? The kind of winning that will allow AOL to continue in the marketplace longterm? I just don't see it...