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News of January 19, 2010
 Stupid Top-10 Watch: Dumbest ... List ... Ever
 Strange Idea Watch: What the ... ?
 Stupid Idea Watch: The Sarcasm Punctuation Mark
 InfoGroup Brings Yesmail, Walter Karl Interactive Under Single Heading
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Stupid Top-10 Watch: Dumbest ... List ... Ever

01/19/10

For the stupidest top-10 list of 2010—yes, it’s only January, but it’s difficult to imagine this one being topped—look no further than the top-10 list of e-mail service providers published last week by an outfit called TopSEOs.

Besides claiming to evaluate things it can’t evaluate, actually being an existing e-mail service provider apparently wasn’t a requirement for inclusion.

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Strange Idea Watch: What the ... ?

01/19/10

Arguably the strangest idea in the short history of e-mail marketing comes in the form of the Web site BottleOnBeach.com.

Touted as an innovative answer to the spam problem, BottleOnBeach allows marketers to craft a text message and upload a list of e-mail addresses for which the message is intended.

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Stupid Idea Watch: The Sarcasm Punctuation Mark

01/19/10

Great, just what we need: a punctuation mark denoting sarcasm.

Everyone reading this by now knows that e-mail’s stark presentation can lead to confusion about the writer’s intent. Some sentences get misinterpreted as overly cold or critical when they’re not. That’s why we have those silly emoticons:)

They’re childish and stupid—and yes, sometimes I use them—but they at least help the recipient interpret correctly the intended tone of the message.

One company has decided sarcasm needs a punctuation mark, the SarcMark.

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InfoGroup Brings Yesmail, Walter Karl Interactive Under Single Heading

01/19/10

Infogroup, formerly InfoUSA, has launched Infogroup Interactive, a digital marketing products and services unit.

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