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News of October 13, 2009
 Utah AG Vows to Spread Registry Idiocy
 Web 2.0: The Jackass’s Bullhorn
 ExactTarget Unveils Twitter Tool
 Pivotal Veracity Expands Rendering Tool
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Utah AG Vows to Spread Registry Idiocy

10/13/09

OK, so it wasn’t much of a surprise last week when a federal judge dismissed porn trade group the Free Speech Coalition’s lawsuit against Utah’s comically misnamed child-protection do-not-e-mail registry.

What was disconcerting, though, was a vow Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff made in the press release touting his victory.

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Web 2.0: The Jackass’s Bullhorn

10/13/09

I come from the school of publishing that says: “Never take on a reader. You have all the ammo. So if you do, you’ll look like a petty bully and you’ll lose subscribers.”

But that rule was crafted in the days of print publications where the only voice readers had was in the letters-to-the-editor section for which editors played gatekeeper and always had the last word if they chose to voice it.

Moreover, the letters published were those that the editors believed added to the discussion or advanced the debate.

Enter the reader comments section on publisher Web sites. Out go the gatekeepers. In come the reasons we thought we needed gatekeepers in the first place.

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ExactTarget Unveils Twitter Tool

10/13/09

E-mail marketing software-on-demand provider ExactTarget today announced it has developed a tool that allows its clients to integrate their e-mail marketing content with Twitter.

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Pivotal Veracity Expands Rendering Tool

10/13/09

E-mail deliverability consultancy Pivotal Veracity today announced it has added to its to its eDesign Optimizer rendering tool the ability for marketers to see how their messages will look to people who read their messages using the Palm Pre and Android mobile e-mail operating systems, and MySpace.

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