Guy Kawasaki’s newest book, “The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything” was just released today, and it’s hot – even hotter than the flame which burns bright on its cover. While it’s a wonderful book for all sorts of reasons, and highly recommended reading…

Dear Gentle Readers, Remember before everybody had email, and people logged in to private bulletin board systems (“BBS”)? If you long for the days when internal correspondence at the office was hand-delivered in those yellow 8×11 envelopes with 172 names scratched out and yours written in at the bottom like…

Users of the “Did They Read It” (“DTRI”) service run their email to you through the DTRI server, where a web bug is embedded in the email. When you open the email to read it, the web bug reports back to DTRI that you have opened the email, and where, geographically, the IP address you are using is located.

Somehow, I lucked into having a Gmail beta account (who knew I had friends in those high places?) Here are my first impressions: First, Gmail doesn’t work with Safari; very annoying. It does, however, work with Firefox. I also found it frustrating that you can’t set up a forward, or…

Kudos to the Daily Show’s Rob Corddrey (pronounced Cordrey) for his deft segment in which he interviews notorious U.S. spammer Scott Richter.

Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., is the CEO of the Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP). The Internet Patrol is published by ISIPP Publishing, a division of ISIPP. Anne has been in the Internet policy, privacy and security sector since 1998, including as in-house counsel for the very first anti-spam organization.

You can read more about Anne here.