Linden Lab has a new vice-president of Marketing (though no word as to whether she’ll be working in the Lab’s marketing headquarters in Amsterdam as yet). Much is being made of the fact that she’s late of Activision-Blizzard.

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The US FTC’s Do Not Call programme now sports more than 200 million US phone numbers.

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The primary purpose of advertising is to influence people. There are secondary purposes, to be sure, but if it wasn’t for the primary purpose few (if any) would bother to spend money on advertising for its secondary purposes, alone.

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Jan 18 2010

Well, a lot of comment-spam turns up here. 100% of it gets caught, at the expense of maybe 1 in 100 legitimate comments winding up in the spam folder accidentally and needing to be fished back out.

It’s a pretty unusual mix.

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