Posted on November 30, 2005 9:22 am by Shel Holtz | Technology | Wikis
You love , but you don’t like the cluttered home page? Harald Hanek, a German programmer, developed Gollum, a simplified interface that piggybacks on your existing browser. Currently, you need to visit the Gollum site in order to use it; a beta download is promised. Invoking Gollum brings up an interation of your browser that lets you enter your search term in…
Posted on November 21, 2005 9:37 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
I learned about a new kind of spam today. New to me, in any case. These evil bastards are called “comment referrers” and their weapon is “referral spam.” In researching this subhuman activity, I found a blog called coldforged.org that explained comment referrers this way:
For those unaware, ???referrer/referral spam??? refers to the practice of sending a request for a web page ??? like my…
Posted on November 18, 2005 8:19 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
I’ve been monitoring visits to both my own blog and the For Immediate Release blog for nearly a year using StatCounter, a terrific free service that provides me with a wide range of information it pulls from my sites by virtue of setting up an account and inserting a small bit of code onto the pages I want tracked. That’s the same way…
Posted on November 16, 2005 5:51 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Curious about Google Base, I added an item today. I created a new item type, “podcasts,” then set a link to For Immediate Release. Within an hour, it showed up in a search of the keywords I’d created. You can add an image, so I included the square FIR logo as an afterthought and got a notice that it would be available in…
Posted on November 15, 2005 4:07 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
I subscribed to Google Analytics on Monday morning around 7 a.m. The site told me, “Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours.” It’s now Tuesday at 2:20 p.m. The site says, “Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours.”…
Posted on November 14, 2005 10:06 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Without much fanfare—or even a simple announcement—Google has launched the free Google Analytics, designed to produce a range of data about your website. My efforts to try the service this morning were stymied. After logging in (using an existing Gmail account login), the site crunched and grinded for several minutes before producing a page informing me that “Google Analytics reporting is currently…
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