What If There Was No Spam? (By Philipp Lenssen, http://blog.outer-court.com)

Spam comes in different shapes and sizes; there's email spam, search engine spam, comment spam, and even audio spam. And probably, at this very moment, spammers are thinking for even more creative ways of getting their bulk messages out. But for a moment, let's imagine what the world would be like... without any spam.

1. When you'd get an email with the subject "You won $100,000", you'd start jumping around the room shouting "Honey, we're rich!"
2. When you'd search Google for "cheap LA Hotels", you'd get an ad-free blog entry about Mark's last holiday trip... including a good suggestion of where to stay in LA.
3. You would only have heard about Viagra on TV.
4. When someone would mention the word "spam", you'd think of canned food.

(... and that's about when my mind went blank!)