Seven Skills to Look for in a Web Analytics Manager
You also get lots of different type of people coming to your website for different purposes, multiple times, using different browsers and locations. We take this really really complex behavior and apply simplistic reasoning to it (“x
Collex: Remixable Metadata for Humanists to Create Collections and
Collex is a set of tools designed to aid students and scholars working in networked archives and federated repositories of humanities materials: a sophisticated COLLections and EXhibits mechanism for the semantic web.
Charitable giving guide for the end-of-year
MySociety produces software like Pledgebank ("I will risk arrest by refusing to register for a UK ID card if 100000 other Britons will also do it") and TheyWorkForYou (every word and deed by every Member of Parliament).
Red Hat on the NYSE: A big move for open source
As you may have heard, Red Hat is moving from the NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), starting tomorrow (December 12). It's a big move with big implications for open source, and I wanted to get more information on the reasons
Foie Gras: Too High a Price?
Some people object to the use of the law to ban foodstuffs for ethical reasons; it is overreaching, they say, and not the place of government to tell people what they should and should not eat. But in Chicago, Alderman Joe Moore,
Why and How! to Keep a Journal for Life
If you have a problem you’re trying to solve, write it down, and then approach it by writing different solutions. You’ll quickly get the hang of it, and figure out your own style. Remember, you’re writing for yourself, and no one else.
Gilad Atzmon aka Artie Fishel: Jazz as a Metaphor for Zionism
For me, to play jazz is to fight the BBS (Bush, Blair and Sharon) world order, to aim towards liberation while knowing you may never get there, to fight the new American colonialism. To say what I believe in, to campaign for the
Gifts for Book Lovers
People tend to ask me what I want as gifts. It's sweet because it means they want to get me something that I really like but kinda takes the surprise out of it. My answer is generally the same - a gift card for a bookstore.
MythTV - just a myth or a reality for the Linux neophyte
After creating it with no problems, it reminds you that you have 3 months of free usage, then you have to come back to the site and take a survey before it will let you use it again. A small price to pay for something free like this.
The Wine Offensive’s Offering To Menu For Hope
This year’s 3rd annual Menu For Hope benefits the United Nations’ World Food Programme. It’sa project started by Chez Pim, and I’ve elected to participate this year because of you, my readers. Last year, I was humbled by the amount of
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