Spammers have found a new way to use Twitter. This one lets them harvest email addresses easily, and use these addresses to do their dirty business. The good news is that you can avoid this practice by simply not tweeting your email address. Have other tips to avoid being spammed? Share them with Murdok readers.
Twitter Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
Enhance your Twitter marketing strategy by knowing which tactics to sidestep. From overusing hashtags to neglecting user engagement.
Careful, That C&D Letter Might Be Copyrighted
Here’s a case that’ll likely leave you with an icky feeling. A lawyer for a large company in Idaho copyrighted a cease-and-desist letter, and when an anonymous blogger posted the letter on his blog, the company subpoenaed the blog hosting company for the blogger’s identity in order to pursue copyright infringement claims.
Careful How You Use Flickr Images
When I started my music podcast, I needed an apporpriate image for the podcast blog. I found an ideal image on Flickr accompanied by a Creative Commons attribution share-alike license. The image of an electric guitar neck now graces the JamJourney blog.
Teens Are Careful With Their Online Information
Most teens are not as careless as is generally perceived when it comes to managing their personal online information according to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Be Careful with Facebook
Facebook is a great service – my 17-year-old daughter and all her friends use it (I have an account too), and so does my cousin who is at McGill University in Montreal, where she engages in the typical sort of debauchery expected of second-year college students, and then posts pictures of said debauchery on her site for all her friends to see.
Be Careful When Writing Online
Because it could cost you your job and it’s definitely true.
Be Careful What You (Re)Sell on eBay
Product resellers are facing staunch opposition from parent companies citing copyright infringement in displaying the product images and names on websites such as eBay.
Be Careful What You Blog For
Blogging about work is risky business. Weblogs are still a thin ice realm, poorly defined with unclear lines and though becoming a powerful medium, it is only their potential that makes employers uneasy, not necessarily the content.
SQL Server Jobs Can Negatively Affect Performance, If You Are Not Careful
Virtually every SQL Server runs one or more daily jobs. And most likely, runs many weekly jobs. Unfortunately, most DBAs set up jobs, and then forget about them, unless of course they break. But if they run day after day without any problems, most jobs are forgotten about.