You would think that after the countless years of Bloggers calling out PR professionals on bad pitches that things would change. You would be wrong. In the spirit of trotting out another dead horse: could PR pitches be any worse? The boatload of emails that are not personalized or relevant to the co...

If you’re looking for work and creating a resume, you should not only carefully review it, but also consider some tactics to make sure your emailed resume isn’t getting lost in employers’ spam email filters. If you’re on the hiring side of the desk, check for the same problem...

Image by just.Luc via Flickr I hate spam. It's a tactic used by lazy uninventive scumbags. I don't like politicians that much and consider most of them to be seriously overpaid. So when I got hit with a spam from the Irish Green Party today to my personal email address I saw red. Here's the spam its...

If you visited this site from 2 and 5UT this afternoon, you might have found nothing but a simple line of text saying “this blog is inactive.” The rather crude measure was taken by WordPress administrators, who found some spam in my blog of which I was unaware. They claimed I had de-spam...

Anyone who randomly sends forwards me .doc press releases without even making an effort to personalise the email stands zero chance of getting a favourable mention from me ever. It's not terribly hard to use some mailing software to send out press releases. Why do people presume that everyone uses W...

ORDB was shutdown ages ago (end of 2006!). Why the hell are people still using it on their mail servers? Make sure your mail server isn't using it!...

My my my once bitten twice shy....oops, wrong song reference, sorry. Let's get to the real intel, shall we? Inspired by Neil Young's famed refrain, "Hey hey my my, rock and roll will never die...", Parisian friends Julien Garnier and Julien Gaulier deliver folk glossed pop which otherwise bears no r...

Available for free TODAY as either a nudge nudge wink wink to Cupid or straight-up celebration of that thing called love (your call really), Mobius Band is offering a free covers EP - appropriately titled Love Will Reign Supreme - of loooooove songs. Head HERE today for your free download plus album...