Over the years, as I’ve spoken at conferences and on Webinars, met with clients and chatted with colleagues in the email industry, I’ve heard several myths and misunderstandings repeated so often that they’ve achieved status as urban legends in our industry. So, in this column, I will reveal my three favorite email marketing urban legends. [...]

Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and propertylocated in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the second quarter of 2008(that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to advance estimates released by theBureau of Economic Analysis. [...]

John Geer, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University argues in his book, In Defense of Negativity, that campaign attack ads are often the most focused and productive — and they actually help the democratic process.

Avon is sitting pretty after a nice report, and so is Jones New York. Tyco could use some help.

Today on the sports roundtable, NPR’s Tony Cox joins bloggers Chad Brown of AlphaBlogSports.blogspot.com and Kevin Figgers of AM570Radio.com to discuss the baseball trade deadline, the unknown future of quarterback Bret Favre, and a long-awaited inclusion into the NFL Hall of Fame for legendary Redskins wide receiver Art Monk.

Despite its horrible title, Armored Core: for Answer from Ubisoft will set you up nice and pretty with some uber firepower and the matching foes to boot.  Get some mech action going with your PS3 or Xbox 360 speculated sometime this September.
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If there’s something strange in the Ghostbusters video game release, call Sony Pictures. The next-gen video game adaptation of the classic cartoon might be delayed due to the studio’s potential plans to relay the title with the 25th anniversary of the original film next year.
Sony Pictures, who caught the ‘Ghostbusters’ rights, said to Variety that [...]

Health-care workers in the US may soon be able to refuse to perform abortions or prescribe birth-control methods they consider objectionable.

The Pineapple Express star often portrays less successful members of society — but he’s hardly one of them. The actor and screenwriter has four Hollywood projects out this summer.

While sales saw a mild plunge of nearly 10 percent, profitability was up a hair year-over-year. Every division and region had decreased sales, save in North America where The World Ends With You helped the company’s returns.