New and noteworthy for 2/5/09

By Ben Gross
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Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button: TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters write about the media research firm Nielsen’s decision to remove the “Reply To All” button from their standard Microsoft Outlook installation in order to cut down on the amount of email. Employees will be required to specifically choose addresses or select a specific distribution list when responding to multiple people. I’ll be fascinated if they publish results of the change.

Justice Department Hoaxes Employees: Elliot Spagat writes about how the Justice Department sent a fake memo to its employees about their retirement plan. The memo contained a link to a another web site which asked for personal information. The Justice Department says the mailing was intentional and was intended to test information security awareness.

The strange history of lorem ipsum : PRI’s The World has a short, fun and interesting audio piece on the history of lorem ipsum the widely used and de facto standard blocks of dummy text used by designers and typesetters to mockup examples without worrying about the reader focusing on the text itself.

Published February 5, 2009