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Blogging about Twitter. Reminds me that Talking about music is like dancing about architecture …and I’ve already blogged about Twitter more than once. While we’re a good year and a half into Twitter, and it’s been mildly entertaining, I’m starting to see value now. So this post is for the folks still scratching their heads.
There’s […]

Two new blogs today…

eMetrics from Jim Sterne, who probably needs no introduction, and

metricbox from William Garrison, a Senior Professional Services Engineer (I assume from WebTrends)
Welcome to the discussion, Jim and William!
(As always, when I find new blogs that seem to touch on web analytics, I tag them with the wablogger keyword on del.icio.us. Social […]

Heidi and I are registered for WordCamp this weekend, but other commitments have come up, so we won’t be there.
It does look like a great weekend though. I’ll look forward to the tweets, blogs and flickr documentaries of the event…

Like many bloggers, I use FeedBurner to distribute my RSS feed. They provide well-formed feeds, predictable performance, and a small amount of reporting so I can see how many RSS readers I have and what articles they click on. You might recall that FeedBurner acquired BlogBeat some time back, but I don’t think […]

Well, it’s hockey playoff season, so that means it’s time to resurface the blog.

OK, that doesn’t make any sense, but I wanted to say something about hockey, so there you go.
Yes, I really am resurfacing the blog– upgraded the software and put in a fresh coat of paint. I intend to consolidate a few […]

I’m way behind in … well, everything, it seems.
So it is that I’m just seeing JZ’s referral analysis. Jeremy makes the vivid point that while there’s strength in numbers, peeling back the surface layers provides deeper insights.

Spent a good hour this morning reading Mini-Microsoft, a recent phenom that’s actually been around a while. The comments are the interesting stuff. I don’t really care about the innards of Microsoft, but it’s making me think about how Yahoo works, including SDS and my own group.
Sheesh, blog spam is way up this […]

EricB, currently at WebTrends, is now blogging about how technology trends impact analytics at inside analytics.
Welcome to the conversation, Eric!

Steve Krause, VP of Analytic Products at CNET, has come out of his cave and is doing some great writing. Web Analytics historians will appreciate his Personify Retrospective, but he’s got lots of Good Think on other topics too. Anyone who can wax poetic about high-definition lettuce gets my vote.
Welcome Steve!

If you’ve seen my About page, you know I don’t pay attention to my blog stats. I mean, I do care about visitors and referrers. I get referrer info from places like PubSub, so they show up in my RSS reader. I don’t really care about visitors as much as I care about participants. […]

Well, I see that after a long slumber, A List Apart is back, with a new look and a new outlook. So I’m back too.
I updated to the latest version of WordPress, and changed the look of the blog. That default was ready for a change. There are dozens of things about the new look […]

A few days ago the bobpage.net RSS 2.0 feed stopped working, so all four of you reading via news aggregators weren’t seeing any new posts. This morning I woke at 4:45 and realized I had broken the feed while trying to add a new feature. A few minutes later (version control works!) we’re back in […]

According to this NYT article,
Visitors to nytimes.com via R.S.S. feeds has soared from about 500,000 a month at the end of 2003, to 7.3 million last April, said Toby Usnik, the New York Times Company’s director of public relations.
Note it’s the PR director. All companies should make company news available via […]

OK, I admit it. I’ve never understood how Yahoo! Buzz works. I’ve just decided it’s one of those things I’m not supposed to understand, like financial accounting. I think my math skills should transfer, but they don’t. Maybe Swaroop C H can explain it to me (Buzz, not accounting).
Given that, Buzz did something with […]