Legal Marketing & PR

Happy Spam Birthday
Spam turns 14 today. On 04/14/94, spam on the Internet was born when two Arizona attorneys flooded Usenet newsgroups with information about their green card services. It was the end of innocence, it was the birth of spam...

Blocking Cellphone Spam
Spam is the bane of our email existance. Recently David Pogue wrote about how to stop cell phone spam. He explained the problem as: OK, now I’m really, REALLY annoyed. Within a week, my wife and I have both started getting spam text messages on our Verizon cellphones...

Friday Fun
So who knew spam e-mail could be so much fun? The German artist at A-Spam-A-Day makes cartoons from spam messages. Some are a bit risque, but all are cute. Check it out.

Web Spam
This is a video well worth watching. It is a great introduction to "What Google Knows About Spam" by Matt Cutts who is Google's king of spam blocking. If you don't know what web spam is (it's not e-mail spam...

"Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog."
Blogger tells me as I try to post this morning:Your blog requires word verificationBlogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog...

Officially...not Spam!
I'm pleased to be able to say Blogger has classified me as officially not being Spam. Good to know, I was worried there for a moment.I don't follow the Blogger Blog, but perhaps I should because they have two posts on the "issues" they encountered on Friday...

Best Law Movies
Greatest Legal Movies selected by ABA Journal

Lawyer Jokes
Law Humor

Bextra Injury Risks
Bextra Increases Risk of Fatal Heart Attack

Bausch Lomb Renu Moistureloc Linked to Eye Infection Fusarium Keratiti
Contact Lens Solution Product Recall

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

Ladder Accident Injury Claims
Were you or a loved one injured in a ladder accident?

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.

MySpace Spam
Spammers to pay $230 million settlement in e-mailing lawsuit.

Microsoft Spam
Richter pays $7 million settlement in deceptive email lawsuit.

St. Louis Car Accident - St. Louis Auto Accident, St. Louis Car Accident Lawyer
St. Louis Car Accident alleging liability for personal injuries caused by car accidents in St. Louis, Missouri.

Birth Injury - Birth Injury Malpractice, Birth Injury Lawyer, Birth Injury Claims
Birth Injury alleging injuries resulting at birth from medical malpractice or negligence.