Wisdumb: Smart and Not-So-Smart

MySyndicaat is a service that creates a river of news from a group of news/RSS feeds. It basically combines these feeds into one giant feed so all you have to do is scroll down though one long set instead of a series of smaller blogs. I find this service useful, and I thought I would share it. I have a feed dedicated to Marketing/PR/Ad blogs. I compiled this list of blogs from the top portion of the Power150 list created by Todd Andrlik and now owned by AdAge. My 20 blogs aren’t the top 20 from the Power150, but they are all in the top 50, at least as of today’s date. I skipped the SEO blogs and some others that I either don’t like or am already checking regularly as part of my normal Bloglines activity. BTW, I added my own MySyndicaat feed to my Bloglines account as just another RSS subscription - that way I get all of my news and blog information from one source. You could do the same thing, or just bookmark or del.icio.us it.

If you aren’t familiar with any of the above hyperlinked services, I recommend you check them out. And please, feel free to share what you use by commenting on this post.

Here’s an interesting story with a bit of a nightmare PR angle.

It seems the MPAA bought private e-mails stolen from TorrentSpy execs. Of course, the MPAA have some sort of paper trail that claims the e-mails were obtained via legal means through a third party…

This makes me wonder ‘How does one sell e-mails that don’t belong to you legally?’ Can anyone do that? Is it just with e-mails, or can it be anything? If so, there is some property on the east coast I’d like to sell you.

Anyway, according to an expert (and virtually any person with a 50+ IQ):

“Ethically, it’s pretty clear that reading other people’s e-mail is wrong,” said Lorrie Cranor, an associate research professor and Internet privacy expert at Carnegie Mellon University. “Being offered someone else’s e-mails by a third party should have been a red flag.”

You think?