PSoTD

Weird. It looks like Adobe recently stopped offering a 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver. Wonder why...

And guess what. It's vacant of any facts, and yet has lots of plums, such as the title, "Meet on the Web, More Likely to Divorce?", and...:

But more than 10 years after the Internet transformed dating, one question remains: Are these couples living happily ever after, or are they more likely to meet with divorce lawyers?

Although there are no official divorce statistics for those who met online, one thing is certain: Just as in marriages that began in more traditional ways, love stories created from online matches don't always have fairy tale endings.

Okay, this just in - we're going to write about something we have no data on.

Or under the heading "Online Affairs Rising":

There's no formal data, but some lawyers say they are seeing more of these clients show up on their doorsteps. New Jersey divorce attorney Eric Spevak is one of them. He says online-dating-related splits started picking up at his practice about five years ago. Spevak estimates that on average, one out of four or five of his firm's divorce cases stem from online dating. "I think it's a trend that will continue," he says.

Oh yes, Eric Spevak, who is trolling to future divorcees as the expert on online-dating-marriage-divorces, is the go-to guy. Neat!

I'm not an advocate (or opponent) for online relationships, but sometimes you have to call BS on a story.

Lesson in short: Communities shouldn't install on their web site an online bulletin board unless they accept that they eventually will have disagreements take place on the message board.

Having said that, there's a lot of value of taking disagreements to a bulletin board, the primary value being that all sides can have their arguments and their point-making capabilities displayed for all to see, and people aren't loaded with just one side's viewpoint. Organizations need to have rules for acceptable behavior and language on a bulletin board, and manage the board so those rules are followed, but it's not an impossible situation to manage.

Followup: Posting about bulletin boards is dangerous, too - see all the comment spam it generates below.

I suspect you're not looking at this content through a Blackberry right now...

I really wish Aaron would continue with this blog. I really like the idea of figuring out the marketplace origins of a business's architecture.

Somebody needs to secure the computers used for sending those emails. Now.

I get email.

Microsoft retiring List Builder Service

Effective 12:00 noon PDT on June 1st 2007 Microsoft will retire its List Builder service. To help you transition away from the service, we are giving you free service for a limited period of time and providing instructions for exporting your subscriber data and saving your campaign reports. Please read below for more details including when you will see changes.

We understand how important keeping in touch with your subscribers is, whether they are customers or other interest groups with whom you communicate. To continue serving your subscribers with newsletters and other customer communications, we invite you to learn how you can sign up for e-mail marketing services with Constant Contact®.

Yeah, yeah, I know, List Builder has sucked for years, but a few of our clients used it because it was useful to them even in its very limited functionality, and there was no real incentive to move. Now we'll have to move them. This is a sign of how insignificant Microsoft's service has become - I think this is the very first blog post about the retirement of Microsoft's List Builder service. Talk about a foregone conclusion...