The New Media Diva

Month: August, 2009

Why I designate your business' newsletters as spam

I’m growing increasingly irritated by businesses who make me sign in to their website so I can unsubscribe from their email list. Yes, this means you SAGE Publications and, yes, you too Creativity Online. There is a strong chance that I’m unsubscribing from your email newsletter because I haven’t been to your site in a [...]

Was Shepard Smith right?

From HuffPo, 10 June 2009: SMITH: There are people now, who are way out there on a limb. And I think they’re just out there on a limb with the email they send us. Because I read it, and they are out there. I mean, out there in a scary place…I could read a hundred [...]

Not-so-final resting place

Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis From AP: Blacks lament cemetery scandal’s affect (sic) on history CHICAGO — Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in the 1930s and worked tirelessly to raise their family into the middle class. Jeff and Ida Lucas were buried in [...]