Archive for September, 2006
Bill Tancer was right
Bill Tancer’s blog first hit my radar when Lee Rainie at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in […]
Threat level: turn to the left and cough
Austin Mayor: “Maybe instead of gutting our Constitution in exchange for a diaphanous sense of security, Americans should remember to lift with their legs.“
The Departed
Just saw the commercial for The Departed, a new Martin Scorsese film starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg.
Two predictions: it will be spectacular, and Scorsese will again fail to win an Oscar.
TiVo
First off, many thanks to Joshua – not sure of your last name, but you listed me as your TiVo referral and that earned me some points towards a toy from TiVo. To Joshua, my hat’s off to you.
If you haven’t experienced the joys of TiVo, let me again strongly recommend one. Their most recent […]
Back from Prague
We had an absolutely wonderful trip. The city is beautiful, very walkable, and it was a nice way to spend a few days. (Hard to believe it was just 4 days.)
I was there to give a presentation to TerraLex, the second largest network of law firms in the world. The idea behind TerraLex is that […]
In Prague, posting will be light
I’m sure you won’t miss me…
TechCrunch’s 100k readers
Traci wrote up a fantastic case study over on the FeedBurner blog about Mike Arrington’s remarkable growth over the last 12 months. It’s not only a good explanation of the kind of information we gather for publishers who use FeedBurner, it also goes into some good detail about how we gather the info we report.
Regardless […]
Stepping down
I recently stepped down as Chair of the Naperville Democrats. This was a really tough decision to make, as I remain convinced that the local party needs to be a visible part of the local scene. But it’s that commitment that made me realize I’m no longer the right guy for the job: as we […]
Feed funkiness
Thanks to Matt Mower for pointing out that my feed was, well, funky. I think it was related to my upgrade the other day (though, it should be noted: not really a byproduct of the upgrade itself, but of some legacy URL handling by WordPress) that I should have caught.
In any event, all should be […]
FeedBurner Plugin v2.1 for WordPress released
Congrats to Steve Smith, who just released a fantastic update to his popular plugin for WordPress. The plugin has always been a great tool for redirecting subscribers from WordPress to your FeedBurner feed, but it involved a little .htaccess magic that was periodically troublesome for users. (It also didn’t work on all versions of WordPress, […]
