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That the real spam kings are the people, your friends, may be yourself...

Did you ever wonder "how the spam guys got my mail?" well you can answer that question everytime somebody receives a funny mail and press "forward" and add as much email adresses as possible (of your beloved ones), well you are creating a database of real mails that can be used by spammers.

It took little to receive those mails, just write a überfunny mail, send it to as many people as possible, and in a few days that mail will return to you, with all the adresses of the other people who get it.

So in order to prevent SPAM proliferation this is the question you MUST ask yourself.

Ok, Google maps has long time on the internet, but their service was "dedicated" to some countries (at the begining only USA, then UK, Germany, Japan, France...) I had the chance to see my city from the skies, but not the street information, neither the restaurants or stuff like that. Then Microsoft came out with Local.Live.com and since they are partnering with Telmex they got all info and streets and everything from the mexican yellow pages, it is very complete. Right now Google is now improving google maps and now you can see the streets of my city!!

There are some issues, like the hybrid view is not correct (the road names are moved) and there are no listed places, restaurants, hotels, and other stuff, but with time this will be fixed.

Person + Mobile phone (camera and voice recorder) + Internet = journalist...

Is not that simple of course, and problably if any journalsit read this will hate me, but I truly believe that the new technology is given power to the people.

In a mexican airplane in a mexican airport some deputies (representatives in the congress) where causing a flight delay by getting in trouble and disturbing the people in the plane, as members of the congres they have "immunity" and no one of the press where present, but a good passenger started to record everything in video in his mobile phone, then published it on the internet (youtube) and it get into the media, BIG NEWS!!! the congress men causing trouble and all was in record, the involed politicians of course denied it, but everything was on video.

The internet and its tools, like this space in My.Opera.com give tools that give power to the masses, to express different points of view, give you a wider perspective in the world arround you and even your own city or community.

Isn't internet great?

so the magic combination:

Person + Mobile Phone + Internet = Journalist

There are millions of journalist in the world thanks to that, try to shut their mouths!

I don't know why but there is many people on the internet that believe that they are speaking to a machine, everytime they post a comment on a blog or in a forum or trough an email they think they are speaking to a machine.

Why I mention this, well, I'm a contant blogger, as you may notice, and also I love to post in forums and in other people blogs. But from time to time I receive answers or read comments from other people that are impressive, why, they are incredible rude, mean words and all kind of insults to other people opinions.

I like to post some of my trips in some travel sites and one day I receive a message saying that I was stupid to say that Boston was less known than New York, and that I was so wrong because Harvard was in Boston and all kind of stuff, well first of all that is your opinion and I respect it, but it was my travel diary, my personal opinion to that place on my vacation, and I actually speak really good thing about Boston, I replyed to that comment telling them not being so rude and that it was my humble opinion, and it was as valid as his, and I also added to remember that everything on the internet is a reflection of another human being, not a machine, and being rude here is like insulting another person in real life, it is the same!

That comes to case because I receive a nasty comment about my football team (soccer) from someone from San Luis (they are playing right this moment) saying really nasty words with a mean purpose. There is no need to that, I find it great that you cheer to San Luis, just like I cheer to Queretaro.

People, we all must remember that everything in forums, blogs and other places on the internet are work of another person, and we must show diplomacy and be polite, act just like you act on real life with other people, and respect OPINIONS since this are subjective and are as valid as any other person opinion.

I like internet because I can say I came to know people from all over the world, and you apresiable visitor to my blog know me too!, because I put my life here, my thoughts and my life is like a personal diary being public, which I like.

I found a link to the code of conduct to the blogs and internet, find it interesting but still need some work.

Bloggers Code of Conduct.