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Lame spam of the day: U.N. natural disaster victim payment

Robert Weiner

This spam is both lame (no graphic, no attempt to make the senders address look legit, mangled English) and odious -- preying on disaster victims (one can hope they're just preying on greedy idiots who will pretend to be disaster victims). 6) Identification either, Passport photo page, Driver License or National ID. (IF NO P O BOX). (3)

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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. I like Vladis Krebs' advice on this fine-tuning which is summarized in a post I wrote a few months back called " If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only follow 150 people on Twitter, who would you follow and why? So is the Internet.