Spam is on the menu as Ken and Courtney talk about the new tougher setting available in Lafayette's Proofpoint anti-spam service and then look at the growing phenomenon of “spam blogs”. There's also more details about Apple and Dell's notebook computer battery recalls, a discussion of Google's new Image Labeler game, news about the Windows Media Player 11 Beta's ability to stream audio and video to Xbox 360s, and information about the early fall ITS workshop schedule.
Getting the Podcast
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- Download the MP3 directly
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ITS News
- Dell and Apple Battery Recall details
- Tougher Spam Setting Available for Proofpoint, Lafayette's Anti-Spam Appliance
- How to customize your proofpoint settings: http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~its/help/proofpoint
- Hello to the Tech Floor!
Tech News
- Wired: Spam + Blogs = Trouble
- Wired has an article about the growing phenomenon of splogs, which are spam blogs designed to bump a "sportals" (a web portal driven by spam) ranking in Google and other search engines, which in turn gets it more ad revenue. It discusses how wide spread the phenomenon is, and how the search and hosting companies are trying to combat it.
- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html
- Google Image Labeler
- You and an anonymous partner label images for Google in an attempt to refine their image catalog.
- http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
- Windows Media Player 11 Beta
- Stream music and video to your Xbox 360.
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx
Help News
- Early Fall 2006 Workshops Announced