links for 2005-10-12

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New Media Marketer: E-mail marketers are lobbying the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to add a sunset provision to the CAN-SPAM Act that would allow e-mail addresses to be automatically removed from suppression files after five years.

For more than a decade, I have been working with employers, colleagues, and clients to maximize the use of the Internet for political and public affairs advocacy. I’ve tried a lot of things. Many worked well, some didn’t. And I’ve seen a lot from others that worked and some that didn’t. InterAdvocacy will keep an…

 USA Today: “Parents wringing their hands over their teens’ incessant cell phone use should chill — they might be interacting with authors. Publishers are plugging into the technology whose ringtones and vibrations attract teenagers’ undivided attention.”  

CustomScoop is currently testing a free online clipping service covering news, blogs and more.  It is based on the same technology that powers the paid CustomScoop service.  This new product, called Personal Edition, offers similar functionality without all the bells and whistles that the subscription product has.  It has also been designed to take advantage…

Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…