As I’m thinking about how to categorize this post, I’m realizing that, despite the fact that it includes scatter plots, it’s a bit off topic for the sort of things I generally put in this blog. But, back in December, in an afternoon of frenzied, yet focussed, exposition, I dashed …
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Jeremiah Owyang has a post on his Web Strategist blog titled Why Your Social Media Plan should have Success Metrics. Based on the URL of the post, it looks like Owyang initially titled the entry “Why Your Social Media Plan should Indicate What Does Success Look Like.” Admittedly, the original …
Avinash Kaushik just published a post titled History Is Overrated (Atleast For Us, Atleast ForNow). The point of that post is that, in the world of web analytics, it can be tempting to try to keep years of historical data…usually “for trending purposes.” Unfortunately, this can get costly, as even a moderately …
That’s gapingvoid as in “Hugh Macleod draws quick, insightful, witty things.” WARNING: the “Who Owns My Data?” cartoon is highly irreverent (it’s gapingvoid, people!) and includes profanity. ‘nuf said — it’s a chuckler: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004409.html There’s really nothing I can add to this. Except that I’m still chuckling. Or, maybe I’m …
I say, “No.” And, actually, it’s not just me. More on that in a minute. I’m going to reference some stuff from wayyyyy back in May 2007 here. I totally missed it when it came out (I’ve got a long list of good excuses), but I recently stumbled across it …
Guy Kawasaki posted Ten Questions with Garr Reynolds (author of Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery). Question number 10 (which, as it turns out, was not the last question, as, in an apparent nod to Douglas Adams, Kawasaki actually included 13 questions): “Why do you think 2-D …