Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day
Adbusters: Buy Nothing Day: “Make a pact with yourself: go on a consumer fast. Lock up your credit cards, put away your cash and opt out of the capitalist spectacle. You may find that it’s harder than you think, that the impulse to buy is more ingrained in you than you ever realized. But you will persist and you will transcend – perhaps reaching the kind of epiphany that can change the world.” Problem is, this is only a buy nothing day. How about a sell nothing day? An advertise nothing day? Can you even imagine it?

Yahoo! Mail Blog: Protecting You From Spam, One Message at a Time
Yahoo! Mail Blog: Protecting You From Spam, One Message at a Time: “Did you know that in 2008, Yahoo! blocked more than a billion spam messages each day?  And it doesn’t stop there. So far this year, we have reduced the amount of spam that comes to Yahoo! Mail inboxes by an additional 30 percent! So how do we do it?  Our anti-spam efforts use a multi-faceted approach….”

Wired.com: The Sorry De-Evolution of Spam
Wired.com: The Sorry De-Evolution of Spam: “These days, spam is a depersonalized, sterile affair. Spammers are casting their nets wider and wider, as evinced by the following e-mails I’ve gotten over the last few months.” (Humor.)

anti-virus rants: being a whitehat means taking sides
anti-virus rants: being a whitehat means taking sides: “you wouldn’t think this needs to be said, but apparently it does - being a whitehat means taking sides. more than that, it means taking the side aligned (more or less) with the general public’s interests - doing things for their direct or indirect benefit.”

The Prescott Report: Behaviorial Advertising Definitely At Risk-You’re Stalking ME?
The Prescott Report: Behaviorial Advertising Definitely At Risk-You’re Stalking ME?: ‘Americans frankly don’t like being watched and “stalked”, especially if they are not told it is happening.   even by merchants who, in my experience, quite sincerely believe they are doing a service to consumers by presenting offers to them tailored to their interests.’