Seeking Profits, Internet Companies Alter Privacy Policy

"What Yahoo has done is unconscionable," said Seth Godin, Yahoo's former vice president for direct marketing. "It's a bad thing, and it's bad for business. They would be better off sending offers to a million people who said they want to receive a coupon each day than to send them to 10 million people and worry about whether you have offended them by finally going too far." While at Yahoo, Mr. Godin published "Permission Marketing" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), which argued that marketing messages should be sent only to people who ask to see them.

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Corporate image management is back in da house! These companies' products rocked so good they had to tell the world -- with an IT Anthem!

Israeli military sources said troops today seized 40 explosive belts in a factory in the West Bank town of Salfit.

Israeli intelligence officials said the PA and its Islamic allies have prepared about 100 suicide bombers for attacks against the Jewish state. They said that at least 30 of them are being directed toward Jerusalem.

Fine-tune ClearType settings in Windows XP

Windows XP owners can use this nifty web interface to tune ClearType settings. ClearType is a Microsoft technology which makes onscreen type much easier to read, particularly on LCD screens.

Kazaa User Alert.

"Executives from Brilliant Digital and Kazaa's parent company say people can uninstall the Brilliant Digital or Altnet software from their computers without interfering with the Kazaa program itself. This is true, but it's not an easy process."

The Only "Solution" Is Victory

"The implication is clear: if Israel is to protect itself, it must achieve a comprehensive military victory over the Palestinians, so that the latter give up their goal of obliterating it. Ending the Palestinian assault will be achieved not through some negotiated breakthrough but by Palestinians (and Arabic-speakers more generally) concluding that their effort to destroy the Jewish state will fail, and so give up this ambition."

Too Many Outlook E-mail Messages?

"My next approach was to sort my mail by conversation. On the View menu, I pointed to Current View, and then clicked By Conversation Topic. This put all the replies to a message thread under the original message. I could then delete all but the final message in the thread - which is the most recent one - and just read that one, or even delete all of the messages in the thread if I wanted."

Organize Your Information in Outlook 2002

"Making sense of the volumes of e-mail and other information you collect might seem like a full-time job. But it doesn't have to be if you put the organizing features in Microsoft Outlook® 2002 to work."

Moviemaking on iMac shows PCs need to catch up

"Before departing I asked if he'd consider a Mac next time. He replied: "Absolutely. In fact, if we hadn't wasted so much money trying to transform that Dell into a multimedia computer, I'd get one today.'"

Waterlogged Camera Turns Magic

"Farrell Eaves' camera was a perfectly ordinary Nikon CoolPix 990 until he accidentally knocked it into a pond last summer. Now it's a magic camera."