A transmission from the deep south.
Make something you believe in. Make it beautiful, confident, and real. Sweat every detail. If it’s not getting traffic, maybe it wasn’t good enough. Try again.
— Derek Powazek has no time for spammers, evildoers, and opportunists, but he’s goddamned inspiring to the rest of us.
I’m guessing that didn’t go so well. Spam Annual Report 2007, designed by Daniel Bürger. The styling and attention to detail in this publication is quite magnificent. (via Kris Lane)
All the evidence points to this being a highly intense, deliberate and planned attack intended to gain access to Campaign Monitor data and to send spam emails. We are committed to stopping this ever being able to happen again, and again apologize for the major let down.
— From Mathew Patterson’s full and frank account of today’s security breach at Campaign Monitor, which allowed a hacker to gain access to some accounts. Nightmare situation, well handled.
Those who have created thousands of accounts, posted thousands of the same link, or aggressively followed way too many people, stand out like a sore thumb to our support team because they are usually blocked by hundreds or thousands of well behaved Twitter users.
— Biz Stone describes Twitter’s ongoing battle with spammers, and recently imposed measures to detect and remove them from the service.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
