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Sam Michel Thanks for checking out Toodlepip, Sam Michel's personal blog for non-Chinwag writing about digital marketing, community and other, possibly not fully-formed, thoughts. Proper work-related bloggage lives at Chinwag and Chinwag Jobs. Posts on Drupal have their own special page and feed and for shorter bits and pieces, there's my Posterous blog.

When Email Marketing Goes Bad

via cracked.com

Not just 100 amusing (and rather filthy) email subject lines, also a lesson in what happens when automated marketing software goes awry. At the hands of porn and drug sellers. Don't say you weren't warned.

Read the full article on Cracked.com.

Hat tip @JakeHird for the tip.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Internet Needs

via pleated-jeans.com

Probably more true than most people would admit.

Hat tip: @MattMason.

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Photojournalism Alive & Well, Unlike Some of Its Subjects

via boston.com

The traditional news business might be in all sorts of trouble, but The Big Picture series from the Boston Globe never fails to deliver.

I've not been to Pamplona for the bull running, and given this series am never likely to, but the incredible pictures really bring to life (and gruesome death) the colour and energy of the event.

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Facebook and the Russian Spy Ring

via cbsnews.com

500m+ users? Yes, it appears everybody is on Facebook including spy #12, Alexey Karetnikov,  in the Russian spy ring. Bet his 'friends' are more than a little nervous. Yet another reason to be cautious about accepting unsolicited friend requests!

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Live Tube Map: X-ray of London's Undeground

Screenshot: Live Tube Map

Like an X-ray of London's underground system, the Live Tube Map from Matthew Somerville, uses a Google Map with a marker above every train on the system.

Watch for a while and feel the sympathy build (only a little given there's potentially a strike tomorrow) for the people who have to manage the traffic on the tube system.

It's also a brilliant and hopefully well-learned lesson in the benefits of opening up data so developers can get their mitts and imaginations to work on how it could be used. And if this is your bag, check out the events for the £5m Collaborative Metadata R&D Competition that I've been working on with the Creative Industries KTN.

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