Free e-book: “Adam’s Super Helpful HTML Email Design Tips”. Awesome.

Adam’s Super Helpful HTML Email Design Tips

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Excellent lambasting of the shortcomings of the “social graph” concepts. Many good quotes in here.

“Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.”

The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)

Tags: socialgraph, social, facebook, relationships, graph, socialnetworking, marketing, foaf, rdf, xfn, opengraph, google

An organized collection of hosts you can blackhole to avoid hacks, malware, ad networks, and other assorted annoyances.

Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck (as much)

Tags: sysadmin, hosts, spam, malware, hacks, tricks