Archive for December, 2006
Things My Girlfriend and I Argue About
Painfully, stomach-clutchingly funny. From a place we’ve all been.
The sad thing that a mainstream newspaper tried to steal it from the author - and then threatened to sue him for complaining.
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under .
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Death of the Page View
As sites are increasingly built with Ajax and Flash, page views stop making sense as a metric. When all of the navigation occurs within a single URL, the use of page views severely undercounts traffic.
“Ajax shatters the metaphor of a web ‘page’ upon which much of web publishing and advertising is based,” [says TechWeb's Fredric [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under .
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If I Only Had a Gun
Yesterday my son was late to school and hadn’t eaten breakfast. I tell him to walk ahead while I run into the Dunkin’ Donuts on 105th Street to buy him a bagel. About a half-second ahead of me into the door is a middle-aged, unshaven guy in a porkpie hat who blocks my way as [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under .
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Taxonomy Recapitulates Folksonomy
Back when I worked at the Globecon Group - a personality-driven boutique that trained wholesale bankers - one of my jobs was to come up with keywords for the thousands of books, articles and PowerPoints that comprised our library of training material.
Some people didn’t like the keywords I chose; they wanted new ones that made [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2006 under .
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