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Articles from NaturalNews In-House Writers:
 President of eMarketing Association, Robert Fleming, discusses e-marketing certification and the current state of spamBy Mike Adams, June 2 2006
Mike: I'm here with Robert Fleming, president and CEO of the eMarketing Association. I want to start with an overview of the eMarketing Association for people who may not be familiar with it and a bit of a discussion on who might be interested in taking these courses.
Robert Fleming: The eMA was founded in 1998. Basically, our mission is to educate and bring together people in the e-marketing, internet marketing arena and provide resources and opportunities for those people to network and develop...
 Put an end to spam and phishing by reforming emailBy Mike Adams, May 15 2006
It is way past time for the internet community to do something serious about spam and phishing attacks. The problem has gone way beyond spam now. Spam itself was quite annoying. We've all waded through hundreds, if not thousands, of emails in our inboxes, trying to find the legitimate emails that we wanted. Even all the anti-spam software, spam filters and schemes for authenticating inbound email and making senders click links to verify real people didn't really stop spam, because the spammers got...
 DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminalsBy Mike Adams, April 13 2006
Pop quiz: What's the first thing you see when you watch a DVD? The answer, of course, is a threat to imprison you or fine you up to $250,000 if you dare copy that movie or display it for non-home use. Movie studios and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are downright paranoid about the pirating of their movies. Some of that paranoia may be justified, but at the same time, it sure is annoying to a customer who buys a lot of movies to see this warning emblazoned on the screen at the beginning...
 Interview with Loren McDonald, vice president of marketing at EmailLabsBy Mike Adams, April 11 2006
Mike: This is Mike Adams, and with us today is Loren McDonald, the vice president of marketing at EmailLabs, one of the most well-known email marketing service companies on the web. Thanks for joining us today, Loren.
McDonald: Thank you. I'm enjoying being here.
Mike: For those who aren't familiar with EmailLabs, could you give some background of what EmailLabs does and your own involvement with the firm?
McDonald: EmailLabs has been around almost five years now. As you mentioned, we're...
 Interview with Ralph Wilson on email marketing and e-commerceBy Mike Adams, March 15 2006
Mike: Today we are speaking with Ralph Wilson, a globally recognized authority on web marketing and e-commerce. He is the author of hundreds of articles, e-books and newsletter issues all found at wilsonweb.com. Thank you for joining us today, Ralph.
Wilson: Thank you.
Mike: For those who may not be familiar with your site and what you do, can you give a brief introduction of what you cover in this industry?
Wilson: Well, I started back in 1995 when the industry was very tiny. I remember...
 Interview with Jeanne Jennings, Online Marketing ConsultantBy Mike Adams, March 6 2006
Mike: I'm here with Jeanne Jennings. Could you introduce yourself and talk about your background? I know you have an MBA and a lot of experience in email marketing, but how did get started with The Jennings Report?
Jennings: I actually got into the online world back in the 1980s. When I graduated with my MBA, I was fascinated with online. I felt like there was so much information in the world, and online seemed to me to be the best way to organize and present it. I love using things like Dialog...
 Interview with John Levine on the War on SPAMBy Mike Adams, February 19 2006
Mike: To start with, can you give people an overview of where you think the war on spam is today? [This interview was conducted in early 2005.]
Levine: I'd say the war on spam is about where World War I was in 1916 -- you know, it's gotten to the point where it's way worse than either side though it was going to be, and although I think we're starting to see some progress on the anti-spam side, we still have an awful lot more work to do.
Mike: Do you think that a solution, then, is many years...
 Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problemsBy Mike Adams, February 15 2006
I've been reading news reports about how technology is advancing so rapidly that by the year 2050, we're supposed to be able to download our entire consciousness into our laptop computers. That right, just plug in your brain, and apparently you can download your memories and all the data in your head.
Now, what's wrong with this? First of all, the brain does not store information in bits and bytes. The brain is not a digital storage system. The brain, and more importantly, the mind, is holographic...
 Science news update: Clones, Mars, quantum computing, weapons technology and more (satire)By Mike Adams, January 12 2006
Here's the latest science news that's worth noting:
My clone did it
Our faith in science is now restored! It turns out that Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk actually didn't fake his research. His clone did. "The fact that my clone faked this research on stem cells," explained Mr. Hwang, "is proof that my cloning process works." Mr. Hwang is now making arrangements to have his clone fired so that he can get back to the job of fooling prestigious scientific journals (which are busy printing...
 Interview with Debbie Weil, Wordbiz founder and online marketing expertBy Mike Adams, October 1 2005
Mike: Hello everyone, this is Mike Adams welcoming Debbie Weil, one of the most widely-read and -respected authors on email marketing, copywriting, B2B communications, and I'll let her tell you what else. Thank you for joining us today, Debbie.
Weil: Thank you, Mike! What a nice introduction.
Mike: Well, you're quite welcome. Could you give us a little more information about what you do?
Weil: Well, I'm probably best known for publishing an e-newsletter, which is of course a form of email...
 As cold fusion events demonstrate, modern science is ruled by conformity, not the search for scientific truthBy Mike Adams, August 7 2005
I've often wondered why it is that conventionally trained medical doctors are so reluctant to venture outside the limited thinking of conventional medicine. Why are they hesitant to adopt new ideas and new theoretical models for the underlying causes of human health or disease? I think I have at least a partial answer to this question: Doctors only succeed in medical school or in acquiring publication of their studies when they conform with the views and beliefs of their peers. In other words, becoming...
 Driving with a cell phone is a lot less dangerous than driving on prescription drugsBy Mike Adams, May 28 2005
There's a lot of debate today about the safety of using cell phones while driving. Statistics show that those who use cell phones while driving cause a much greater percentage of accidents than those who avoid using their cell phones. And the studies have shown that it's not just the physical coordination required to punch numbers into the cell phone while you're trying to work the vehicle that causes accidents; it's actually the lack of attention resulting from driving and talking on the cell phone...
 Email privacy now a top concern for 19 out of 20 internet usersBy Mike Adams, May 24 2005
How important is email privacy to your business? A new email privacy survey conducted by Relemail reveals it may be far more important than you expected. The survey presents some startling statistics about how email subscribers view privacy. Let's take a closer look at these statistics and reveal what it means for you and your organization.
The first statistic revealed by the study is that 96 percent of email subscribers view email privacy as important to them. This is a huge number. It essentially...
 Gene therapy and genetic engineering: the future of medicine?By Mike Adams, May 19 2005
Is gene therapy the next wave in medicine? As the age of chemical-based medicine is now thoroughly discredited (prescription drugs are toxic, haven't you heard?), and drug companies are losing both profits and credibility, there's a mad dash to find something to replace the current drug racket. Could gene therapy be the next "big thing" for Big Pharma?
Interestingly, gene therapy has very real potential for enhancing human health, but not in the way the drug companies think. Unfortunately, gene...
 Email marketing service provider Listrak spams president of permission-based email software company with unsolicited commercial emailBy Mike Adams, March 24 2005
I had to share this one with you, folks. If you laugh as hard as I did, this will make your day. As many readers of this site know, in addition to writing these feature articles, I'm also the president of one of the top permission email software companies in the industry, ArialSoftware.com. Since 1993, I've fought against spam, I've worked to create email sender certification solutions (like www.Relemail.com) and I've even created webmaster tools to help small businesses and non-profits build their...
New international anti-spam council pledges to fight spam around the worldBy Mike Adams, July 30 2004
A new international anti-spam group has been formed and announced. It is called the International Council on Internet Communications, and the purpose of this council is to coordinate international efforts to stop spammers. This sort of international group is necessary because spammers operate internationally. They can use mail relays from countries like China or Russia, or hijack so-called zombie PCs from any country in the world in order to send their spam messages. For example, spammers' headquarters...
 Digital cameras are good for the environmentBy Mike Adams, February 1 2005
As we consider the digital camera revolution that has taken place over the last decade, most people think about it in terms of enhanced benefits for consumers. We can take a lot more pictures at much lower cost with digital cameras versus film cameras. We can also more easily manipulate and share those photos since they're all in the digital realm.
But one thing many people don't think about actually deserves mention as potentially the most profound effect of the digital camera revolution: how...
The Top Ten Technologies: #10 Superlearning SystemsBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
One of the great failures of modern society is public education. In the United States, the public education system has been denied adequate funding for so long that teachers frequently resort to buying textbooks for their students with their own money. Many schools lack even fundamental instructional tools like desktop computers, and much about public education remains mired in bureaucracy and political power grabs.
The advancement of modern civilization will require a quantum leap in the approach...
The Top Ten Technologies: #7: Genetic Engineering of HumansBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
One of the greatest problems facing our civilization goes largely unnoticed. The problem is that we, as human beings, are haphazard creations designed to thrive and reproduce in an environment that shares little in common with the global uplifting of civilization. From a physical standpoint, we are merely little more than great apes (we share some 98% of their genetic code). We are born with physical structures that were designed to help us survive harsh, prehistoric environments, and they did their...
 Titan probe failure demonstrates pattern of quality control failures at NASABy Mike Adams, January 30 2005
Here is a real whopper in the history of stupid space exploration tricks. The spacecraft that recently arrived on Titan was supposed to transmit images and experimental data on two data channels: channels A and B. But as it turns out, someone forgot to turn on channel A and so only channel B was available. And channel B was the least reliable channel of the two. It had slower transmission speed and was not designed to be the primary data channel.
As a result, some experiments were entirely destroyed...
The Top Ten Technologies: #3 Augmented RealityBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
One of the greatest problems now facing humanity is the worrisome lack of quality education for each new generation. In industrialized nations, a quality education is attainable by very few people, and public schools -- especially in the United States -- suffer from a chronic lack of funding and education reform. In non-industrialized nations, education is even worse: the vast majority of children have no access to education, illiteracy is rampant, and the outlook for better schools is dim.
Clearly...
Secret audit reveals massive CAN-SPAM violations by corporate AmericaBy Mike Adams, July 12 2004
In early 2004, I initiated an email marketing study of 1,057 well-known online organizations (including many Fortune 500 firms) that secretly audited each firm's compliance with CAN-SPAM regulations. After subscribing to each firm's email newsletter, the monitoring what they sent, my research team compiled a detailed database of email marketing practices and CAN-SPAM violations. The results were shocking: nearly 2/3rd of these companies violate CAN-SPAM in one way or another, and an astounding 51%...
Compliance with CAN-SPAM fast approaches zero; only a technical solution
can halt spamBy Mike Adams, June 9 2004
A new study shows that the positive anti-spam effects of CAN-SPAM
legislation were quite brief: while 3% of spam complied with the law
during early 2004, that number has now dropped to 1%. Neither number is
reassuring, and both numbers demonstrate that CAN-SPAM compliance is
fast approaching zero. It's yet more proof that only a technical
solution -- like the Puzzle Solution -- can bring spam to its knees.
Essentially, spammers have realized that complying with CAN-SPAM offers
them...
 Japanese carmakers reach milestone: 30 percent of U.S. auto salesBy Mike Adams, January 5 2005
Toyota and other Japanese car manufacturers are tearing up U.S. auto manufacturers. And despite all the excuses from Ford and other companies, the real reason Toyota is winning is quite simple: Toyota makes better automobiles. I've owned Fords, Chevys, and Toyotas. There's no comparison in terms of quality, reliability and longevity of the vehicle. Toyota is simply engineered to higher quality standards. It has a far superior user interface (Ford still hasn't figured out how to make the turn signals...
Can-Spam anti-spam law remains useless after first year on the booksBy Mike Adams, January 3 2005
Just as I predicted over a year ago, Can-Spam has done absolutely nothing to curtail spam. Today, spam is worse than ever. What's needed is either a technical solution (the Puzzle Solution) or widespread certification of email practices. That's why I created Relemail, an email sender certification service that eliminates the possibility of spam before the emails are ever sent. It also keeps mailers honest through independent auditing of their behaviors, not just their privacy policies. Learn more...
 Google library project named as one of ten most important emerging technologies for humanity by futurist Mike AdamsBy Mike Adams, December 17 2004
The Google library project -- an ambitious effort to digitize hundreds of thousands of texts from prestigious libraries -- has been named the single most important emerging technology for humanity by futurist Mike Adams in his free downloadable ebook, "The Ten Most Important Emerging Technologies For Humanity." In the downloadable book, available at TruthPublishing.com, Adams cites the Global Electronic Library as the #1 technology needed to uplift humanity due to its ability to enhance the accessibility...
 Over 85% of Internet users believe they've been spammed after subscribing to an email newsletter: Relemail studyBy Mike Adams, December 5 2004
A survey conducted by email privacy certification service ReleMail revealed a staggering 87% of internet users believing that they have been spammed after they subscribed to an email newsletter.
The 2004 survey conducted by Relemail also showed 83% of users avoided subscribing to an email newsletter because they weren't sure they could trust the publisher, and 78% do not always believe companies' own email privacy statements.
On the positive side, 91% of users say they are more likely to give...
 Email privacy audit results published for 1,000 firms at Relemail.comBy Mike Adams, December 5 2004
Internet users can now access the email privacy ratings for more than 1,000 online firms in a public ratings database published at Relemail.com. These ratings are the result of a secret audit conducted by Relemail that sought to determine the email privacy practices and anti-spam compliance behaviors of the top organizations on the internet. Each firm is given a rating from one to five stars, with five stars indicating full compliance with all fifteen points monitored by the audit.
Some of the...
 New email privacy certification service lets email senders prove they aren't spammingBy Mike Adams, December 5 2004
Email senders can now reassure potential subscribers and customers that their email addresses will be protected. Relemail, a new service that audits and certifies email privacy practices, launched today.
ReleMail monitors an organization's email practices and certifies those that meet stringent standards of privacy and professionalism. Rather than relying on anti-spam technologies like DomainKeys or SPF, Relemail uses a team of email investigators to secretly subscribe to clients' email newsletters...
 Biomimetics breakthroughs: studying nature to develop practical technology for mankindBy Mike Adams, November 10 2004
Biomimetics is a fascinating -- and fast-emerging -- field of research. Simply stated, it's the science of looking for solutions that have been engineered by nature. Previous biomimetics efforts lead to the development of velcro, and now an entire expo called "Nature's Wisdom" is dedicated to showcasing breakthroughs created by nature and recognized by scientists. I'm a huge supporter of this sort of science: nature has much to teach us, and if we would have the patience to look at the solutions...
Keep the Internet freeBy Mike Adams, January 17 2004
Here's a must-read article on the coming U.N.-sactioned Internet power
grab, and the reasons behind it. Essentially, countries that maintain
control by keeping their population in the dark (China, Syria, North
Korea, and so on) don't want the Internet to be free. If their citizens
knew the truth, they might revolt! Keep 'em dumb, China says, and you
can control 'em. As this article's author points out, however, the
Internet works rather well just the way it is: unregulated, free, and...
Breakthrough Food Technology Process Protects Foods With Thin Film Made From Natural Ingredients; Replaces Plastic WrapBy Mike Adams, August 6 2004
Every once in a while, new technology emerges in the field of food manufacturing that offers the potential for a real breakthrough in the delivery of fresh, nutritious food products to consumers. Such is the case with a new edible food film that has been developed by researchers from the Oregon State University and its Department of Food Science and Technology. This food protective fiber or film, which looks a lot like plastic wrap, combines two ingredients -- chitosan, a fiber derived from shellfish...
Nanotechnology Breakthrough Produces Metal Rubber; Flexible Metal Sheets Snap Back To Original Shape After Being CrumpledBy Mike Adams, August 6 2004
A breakthrough in material science has produced a highly malleable metallic substance called "metal rubber." This has been developed by a company called NanoSonic, and is the product of nanotechnology fabrication processes.
Metal rubber is very thin and can be bent, folded, or crumpled up, and then immediately snaps back to its original shape. It also conducts electricity just like solid metal. This of course has all sorts of industrial applications, including use in consumer electronics, military...
Apple Computer Now Emerging As An Anti-Competitive, Narrow-Minded Company That Prefers To Limit Consumer Rights Rather Than Expand ThemBy Mike Adams, August 6 2004
Apple is taking more heat over its anti-competitive practices regarding its iPod copy protection technology. The French online music store Virgin Mega has now filed a legal complaint against Apple, saying that Apple is engaged in anti-competitive practices by refusing to license the copy protection technology used in its iPod consumer electronics devices. This is yet more news about Apple's anti-competitive stance on music.
Real Networks recently called on Apple to open up its Fairplay digital...
Notebooks will offer poor performance until the next generation of battery technology arrivesBy Mike Adams, November 11 2003
You can tweak the electronics all you want, but notebook computers are never going to offer satisfactory battery life until we move on from lithium-ion technology to something new: like biofuel cells, hydrogen fuel cells, zinc power, or something just as revolutionary.
I'm currently betting on miniature fuel cells as the next generation of notebook batteries. They have outstanding energy density, they can be quickly refueled, and they're non-toxic (unlike a lot of conventional batteries).
The...
Brain controlled robotic arm experiment moves to humans nextBy Mike Adams, November 6 2003
With this implant, monkeys were able to control robotic arms with their brains. On the surface, this doesn't sound too amazing to me, since I can control ten toes, two legs, two arms and a whole slew of back muscles with my brain, too. It's called walking. And I don't need an implant to do it.
But the application of this technology is for people who may not have all those limbs. With this implant, the thinking goes, people with disabilities might be able to control robotic limbs or motorized wheelchairs...
Augmented Reality Technology Promises Breakthroughs In Education And Cognitive PotentialBy Mike Adams, August 6 2004
NASA is developing new technology known as the wearable augmentable reality prototype, or WARP. It's a wearable personal computer very similar to the concept I have described in the report called The Ten Most Important Emerging Technologies For Humanity. These augmented reality wearable computers would overlay audio and video signals onto the natural surrounding environment, allowing a person to see, hear or otherwise observe characters, events, animations, notes, or other data in a way that appears...
V2G technology allows hybrid vehicles to feed electricity into city power gridsBy Mike Adams, August 3 2004
Twenty years from now, when you're driving your fuel cell vehicle, you may be able to earn money by plugging it into your city's electrical grid when you're not driving. That's the promise of V2G technology, or vehicle-to-grid.
V2G technology takes advantage of the fact that gas/electric hybrid cars -- and in the future, fuel cell hybrid vehicles -- are power generation stations on wheels, and that power generation capability sits idle more than 90% of the time. By plugging vehicles back into...
Technology breakthrough could make LCD displays for pennies instead of dollarsBy Mike Adams, November 3 2003
This article is a good, quick read on a new technology by Xerox that promises to manufacture LCDs at a fraction of today's price and cost. Simply put, the technology uses inkjet printers to "print" LCD circuits rather than etching them with far more expensive chemical processeses.
Automobiles of the future may communicate with body languageBy Mike Adams, July 26 2004
In the future, your car may be able to smile, cry, grimace, or show other emotions to the drivers and other vehicles around you. This is a vision according to new inventors from Japan, who have received a patent on technology to allow cars, ships, motorcycles and other vehicles to emote.
This technology is being used to enhance the communication abilities of vehicles so that drivers can send more complex signals to the other drivers around them on the road. Today, you can only honk your horn...
Email marketing service firms seeing drop in revenues caused by global spam pollutionBy Mike Adams, July 24 2004
Digital Impact is seeing a considerable drop in email marketing service revenues, says the company. And the problem is that spam continues to flood inboxes, crowding out email messages and newsletters from legitimate email marketing efforts. It's a problem we all face in the permission email marketing industry: how can people read their opt-in emails if they have to wade through endless reams of spam? Digital Impact lost nearly $900,000 last quarter as a result of all this. They're hoping to make...
Robots being developed to retrieve library booksBy Mike Adams, July 22 2004
In the future, you may be able to walk right up to your local library robot and tell it what book you want. It will shuffle off, locate the book, lift it off the shelf, and bring it back to you. That's the dream of robot engineers in Spain who are working on developing robots that retrieve books from shelves using a combination of image recognition, voice recognition and navigation technologies. It's all part of the dream to make robots more practical. After all, robots are interesting demonstrations...
New nanotech risk revealed: runaway green goo could be created by nanobiotech gone badBy Mike Adams, July 19 2004
The potential horrors of nanotechnology seem to keep on coming. Not long after the mythical grey goo threat was dismissed by nanotechnology pioneers, a new threat appears: green goo created by the merging of nanotechnology and biotechnology -- nanobiotech. What is green goo? It's a runaway mass of self-replicating organisms created by biotechnology researchers relying on nanotech processes. Imagine an artificially-created microbe that can feed on practically anything, survive harsh conditions, and...
The Top Ten Technologies: Where is Nanotechnology?By Mike Adams, July 14 2004
You probably noticed that nanotechnology isn't on the top 10 list. This is no oversight. Nanotech isn't on the list because nanotechnology has been so distorted by the popular press and researchers who add "nano" to their projects in order to get funding that, today, it essentially means "anything that's really tiny." That's not a technology. That's a scale.
Makers of artificial joints drill tiny holes into the surface of the joint structures and call it nanotechnology. Why? The holes are nano...
The Top Ten Technologies: #9 Vibrational MedicineBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
Vibrational medicine is a promising area of "technology" (it's difficult to call it that) that covers a variety of pioneering healing modalities now known to be far more powerful than drugs and surgery in improving the lives of patients. These modalities include:
Phototherapy: harnessing the healing power of natural sunlight to prevent cancer, reverse clinical depression, alter moods, increase bone density and much more.
Color therapy: using selected wavelengths of natural sunlight to create...
The Top Ten Technologies: #8 Computer / Human Interface SystemsBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
There's no mistaking the significant influence of personal computers and the Internet on our modern way of life. Many of us have so quickly adapted to regular use of search engines and web surfing that it's difficult to imagine life without the Internet.
The Internet allow us to research products and companies, share ideas with the public, research nutritional supplements, find articles on historical figures, and do a million other things that simply weren't possible a mere two decades ago.
And...
The Top Ten Technologies: #6 Fuel Cell VehiclesBy Mike Adams, July 14 2004
The personal automobile is the source of both fantastic benefits to modern life and terrible consequences. Those consequences range from devastating public health effects due to automobile emissions (asthma, lung cancer, throat infections, etc.) to the rapid alteration of our planet's own atmosphere (global warming). But what if a new technology could bring us all the benefits of personal transportation without these drawbacks?
Fuel cell vehicles may deliver on precisely that promise. Fuel cell...
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