Day archives: June 30th, 2007

Why We Click

From eWeek: Money is the motivation for scam-spam. The motivation for clicking on it is far less straightforward, and none of us is immune. “It’s not like certain people are going to be nailed by spam all the time. Or that there are certain motivations that will just [always] trigger people [who respond] to spam …

NASA missions may Twitter from the moon

From USA Today: NASA astronauts “twittering” from the moon? It’s not such a far-fetched idea, considering the space agency’s current push to partner with Web 2.0 companies like Twitter and save itself from turning into a dinosaur in the Internet age. Some executives at the struggling NASA believe that if the agency can adopt Web …

This blog is G Rated

Mingle2 has a tool that they say will “rate” your blog, similar to the way movies are rated. It scans the posts and looks for objectionable words. It obviously isn’t perfect (one of my sites was warned about using the word “dead”), but it’s still kind of a fun tool. You can enter any blog …