{"id":1283,"date":"2007-11-12T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/blogging-like-shakespeare\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:56:37","slug":"blogging-like-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/blogging-like-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Like Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to indulge myself &#8211; I just read a fun, short post from Inc.com titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.inc.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/09\/spam_where_art_thou.html?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Spam, Where Art Thou?<\/a>&nbsp; The author has some highly entertaining metaphors (and similes) in the post regarding her company&#8217;s new high-octane spam filter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This new filter, by contrast, is very efficient; cleansing my inbox of undesirables and dumping them all in spam ghetto, from whence I receive reports several times a week. Occasionally I find something like my CEO\u2019s note has become accidentally trapped, and I release it like a dolphin from tuna nets. Generally, though, I just scan the subject lines. The sheer volume of coarse come-ons, unleavened by less-provocative missives from friends and business contacts, makes me mildly queasy. It\u2019s a bit like tugging a hair clog from the shower drain at the end of the week. <\/p>\n<p>I confess I miss my spam. I like to ease into my work day by sitting down at the PC and whacking away a few low-hanging fruit. Deleting messages titled \u201cRe: Your pharmacy order #390842083;\u201d \u201cYour assistance is needed;\u201d or, perhaps most provocatively, \u201cS&amp;WE&amp;2789ueruu\u201d took only a few seconds and required virtually no brainpower. Yet I felt as though I was accomplishing something: sweeping clean the stoop of my day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is the way to start a Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to indulge myself &#8211; I just read a fun, short post from Inc.com titled Spam, Where Art Thou?&nbsp; The author has some highly entertaining metaphors (and similes) in the post regarding her company&#8217;s new high-octane spam filter: This new filter, by contrast, is very efficient; cleansing my inbox of undesirables and dumping them all in spam ghetto, from whence I receive reports several times a week. Occasionally I find something like my CEO\u2019s note has become accidentally trapped, and I release it like a dolphin from tuna nets. Generally, though, I just scan the subject lines. The sheer volume of coarse come-ons, unleavened by less-provocative missives from friends&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/blogging-like-shakespeare\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-kH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1354,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/the-spam-trend\/","url_meta":{"origin":1283,"position":0},"title":"The Spam Trend","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is bad - straight from Online Media Daily: NEARLY 9 OUT OF 10 email messages delivered to large enterprises in November were spam, according to the latest stats from Proofpoint. 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