Archive for the ‘Brainpower’ Category

Spam Commenters Are Wasting Brainpower

Thursday, September 6th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Imagine the amount of collective brainpower idiotic spammers waste on creative ideas for new ways to get past spam filters.
This one was caught in the moderation queue (and would probably be caught with Akismet otherwise). For entertainment purposes, here is the text I recieved:
Anikrichard | anlikivanna.80@mail.ru | wwwwww.com | IP: 72.9.235.218
hello , my name is [...]

Best Brainstorming Tool: Instant Messaging

Monday, January 8th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Instant messaging tools like messenger, google talk or similar are apparently better tools for brainstorming than for instance email or wikis.
According to a paper in the latest edition of the journal Computer Standards & Interfaces, the answer is yes. It seems that teams that collaborate using a instant messageing [sic] software like MSN messenger or [...]