Cloudmark’s SpamNet

I wish I had known about Cloudmark on Tuesday at the GIP conference on spam. As I was quoted in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, “this is promising”. CloudMark claims to have over 5,000 users already. They just came out of stealth mode on Wednesday. They also claim to have processed more than 4 million […]

The Global Internet Project

Today, the Global Internet Project convened a workshop in Washington, DC called “Spam: Can It Be Stopped?”. The participants represented some of the leading experts on the subject from government, academia, law, and business. There was strong concensus that spam is a broad and deep problem and it is having significant negative economic and personal […]

The Spam Has Got To Go

I have been out on the lecture circuit for quite a few years, along with Vint Cerf and others, praising the Internet for all the good it can bring to the world. The GIP put out a paper in 1995 about how the Net would yield better education, improved world health, and better economic opportunity […]

Content for Kids

In Net Attitude, I wrote quite a bit about the importance of talking to teenagers. They hold many of the clues as to what the Future of the Internet will be like. The kids totally get the Internet and studies have now proven what may be the obvious — nearly 90% of teenagers in America […]