I love Google Analytics, and I love Feedburner. I especially love the new “Basic Blog Dashboard” custom report put together and shared by Justin Cutroni as part of Google’s rollout of its new custom dashboard sharing functionality.
But there’s one thing missing. I don’t believe Google has provided a way for me to pull my Feedburner subscriber data into a Google Analytics dashboard. This isn’t the same thing as seeing Feedburner-driven traffic within my analytics. Continue reading
This video has been making some rounds this week, and I think it’s worth sharing. I saw it first on the Sched events blog, whose author called it “simply awesome and one of the most interesting promotional videos I’ve come across in quite some time.”
I watched it; I liked it; I re-shared it on Twitter, and then other people started chiming in that they also had seen this video and loved it and could not stop watching it.
I’m going to be honest. Their praise went way beyond what I thought when I first saw this vid. Continue reading
I’m thinking about introducing a semi-regular series called “Spam Poetry,” with spam comments I have received that are so ridiculous or effusive — well, really just so outrageous in any way — that I feel compelled to share. Here’s the first. It made the “poetry” cut because the language strung together is so beautifully nonsensical.
Let me know if you think I should keep this up. And please feel free to submit your own favorite spam — from your own blog comments, from email, from social media, from anywhere — in the comments. Please do keep it clean, though — this is a family joint!
“To grow improved,
previously catch what forces you to grow regressed.
each person features personal lacks. To remove them,
we all are to find out them.
since your considerations are fixed on past, you are not able to budge.”
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Photo by AstroHurricane001 at en.wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
You know that old stereotype that says men will never stop to ask for directions? I’d like to posit another theory: Young people in the workplace may be less likely to ask for help than their older colleagues.
I was talking the other day with a friend who mentioned that two of her co-workers share what she perceives as a common short-coming: If they have a technology question, they don’t ask for help. They can get completely stalled by a problem and just sit alone at their desks for hours trying to work it out by themselves.
“Why don’t they ask for help?” she wondered. Why not call IT, or contact the software company’s customer support staff? Well, it turns out that both of these colleagues are younger than my friend. Both are, in fact, digital natives.
“Get used to it,” I told her. Continue reading
I used to be part of a book club. I really enjoyed it, but eventually the members let it die out, largely because of changing priorities and life demands. Sometimes I really miss it, though, usually when I find myself in the embrace of a book that’s so dense I either want to share it or need someone with whom I can bounce around ideas.
My glasses resting on the open book, 1Q84. I snapped this after jotting down some notes as I was reading.
This is one of those times.
I just finished 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, and I have to say it was one of the most amazing books I’ve read in a long time — dense and multi-faceted and rich with themes and images that seem to simultaneously unfold and wrap together as you read. Continue reading