April 28, 2003
NY Times: E-Mail Service Providers Unite in Bid to Stop Spam.
But even though these systems sidetrack several billion pieces a day, they miss so much more that spam has become a leading source of complaints from users. Many studies show that the quantities of spam have at least doubled in the last year so the companies have agreed to cooperate with rivals.
Useit.Com: Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?
Text-only ads on search engines have become particularly successful in recent years, and non-search sites are now experimenting with this format in hope of replicating that success. However, it's doubtful that their efforts will work because non-search sites lack the equation's crucial element: users' single-minded goal to leave the site as quickly as possible.
NY Times: Apple Said to Be Entering E-Music Fray With Pay Service.
Apple itself has provided few details of its new service, but people in the music industry and analysts said users would be charged 99 cents to download individual songs drawn from the catalogs of the big record labels.
News.Com: A modest proposal to end spam.
It's a great idea in theory. But I doubt it will work in practice. If Congress even gets around to enacting it, instead of some of the competing antispam bills, I think Lessig will have to kiss his current job goodbye.
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