Global Internet Project – Honolulu

This has been a very busy week for public policy groups in Honolulu. The Global Internet Project Spam Workshop was a follow on to the June 18 meeting on the same subject. The GIP is an international group of senior executives committed to fostering continued growth of the Internet. It dates back to 1995 when […]

Today’s Visions of the Science of Tomorrow

John Brockman is a literary agent (and agent for my book, Net Attitude) and the publisher of Edge.org, a Web site devoted to science. At the end of each year, John poses a question to leading scientists, writers and futurists. In 2002, he asked respondents to imagine that they had been nominated as White House […]

He Loves Spam? I Sure Don’t!

CNET ran a story this past May by Barry Dennis called “Why I love spam” Barry first relates his experience of some years ago when he would get a lot of postal “junk mail” that was unsolicited and he says that he loved it. He says he really appreciated the offers because he learned things […]

Vanquish Spam

I continue to get a lot of feedback on the subject of spam. Just in case you didn’t see it, Esther Dyson had an interesting column in the New York Times on the subject. She described a new company called Vanquish that is offering a new anti-spam service that sounds very interesting. I think we […]