I'll be up front about this, Inkybee crossed a line this week: where they're publicly available, we're now showing the email addresses of bloggers to Inkybee users. We avoided this from the outset, but now our users can happily drop these addresses into their mail merge tools and spam the bloggers. Ouch! Well, that's an approach that we actively discourage as we educate and encourage our users to pitch bloggers in a personal, ethical manner. So why did we do it? The simple answer is … [Read more...]