Sunday Communications Roundup [Jan. 11, 2009]
I was out of pocket for a bit (actually almost 3 weeks) and now I'm digging myself out of a mound of paper (mostly the virtual kind). I should pick up the blogging pace a bit in a couple of weeks, and maybe try to get on some sort of schedule? I should just go ahead and admit that I'm finding it hard to maintain the blog along with "everything else". At the risk of stating the obvious, one of the many challenges of blogging is the time involved in maintaining a steady stream of relevant content. I'm more and more inclined to do the quick and easy post, rather than really sinking my teeth into something.
That said, here are a few email/messaging links that caught my attention in the last week or two:
1. "Reply All" Snafus: State Dept. Email Crash After "Reply All" Storm. (Slashdot, via "phillyshortcite" on Twitter)Happy 2009 all!
2. Goodbye GW: Send your goodbye letter to GW here (many letters are posted; no legal issues involved, just interesting).
3. Etiquette: Apologies for Melamine scandal via text message? (Consumerist)
4. Etiquette II: Canadian Spa Worker fired via Facebook. (Edmonton Journal, via Prof. Geist)
5. Etiquette III: Twitter marriage proposals (Wired - I guess this wasn't the first?)
6. Not Quite Etiquette: Sleepmailing? ("pressing send in your sleep") (NYT)
7. Twittersquatting: Erik J. Heels: Brands are getting jacked + call for a solution. (Interesting post - quick afterthought: existing federal trademark law probably does little to protect any brands that cannot bring dilution claims?)
8. E-filing: Proposal for paperless Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy proceeding. (CircleID) Also, e-filing is now mandatory in the Ninth Circuit [link].
9. CAN-SPAM/Preemption: Ethan Ackerman revisits Reunion.com / preemption (Tech. & Marketing Law Blog)
10. SMS Spam: The Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster, an SMS spam case [link], a month from today.
11. Phishing/Twitter: "Phishing Attacks Reach Twitter" (The Spam Diaries)
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