A busy afternoon – I’ve posted new reports for Boston and for Cape Cod on Reel-Time.com In Boston, we’re still waiting on a real appearance by the bluefish. Very strange, they haven’t been so late that I can recall. It kind of reminds me of the stories the old timers told me back in the 1970’s that they remember not seeing blues in the 30s and 40s north of Cape Cod. School bluefin are showing out at Stellwagen, so the…
Traffic stats – the red headed step child of statistics, damned lies cloaked inside a slathering of untruth and then wrapped in that un-Godliest of file formats, xls and used to bludgeon all that is sane and rational out of your web strategy. This is the stuff that reduces grown webmasters, those mastadonian throwbacks of an earlier tech era, to tears, and enables the airline magazine reading, conference attending execs to think they actually have a handle on what’s happening….
Cory Doctorow’s article in the Guardian.co.uk (it’s British, so the law doesn’t necessarily apply to the Americans in the crowd…) has an outrageously good look at how the record industry blew it with their incredibly transparent and stupendously idiotic plan to stop music piracy. This month’s announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) and the big record companies to spy on suspected copyright infringers and reduce the quality of their internet connections is just the latest paragraph…
Country-Western Murder Ballads meet Gangsta Rap – it you don’t have a sense of humor this isn’t for you. Heck, if you don’t have a sense of humor, what are you doing reading this blog anyways? They’ll be playing in Cambridge Sept. 30 and Fall River the following night…and are in the midst of a major tour so check them out! More info at their site, aptly named http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com
David Churbuck linked to the Ben Worthen story in the WSJ yesterday entitled “Why Most Online Communities Fail“. David points out that a simple typo from a Deloitte powerpoint managed the ruin the story and deflect the discussion from the matter at hand to a moot discussion on percentages. 1. Going out with the claim that 60% of businesses invest over $1 million in online communities thanks to a Deloitte typo that should have stated 6% is not a great…
The Project for Excellence in Journalism (funded by the PEW Charitable Trust) has an excellent report out on the Changing Newspaper Newsroom – with some very interesting statistics that seem to imply the newspapers still haven’t got the message about their value proposition. It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of…
Yeah, I need some humor today…
Peter Vican caught a 75.4 lb. striped bass off the reef at Block Island over the weekend. Well, it was the Block Island reef, as the story in the Providence Journal says, he normally fishes off Block Island, and in the tradition of real striper fishermen, he apparently wasn’t even willing to admit he was in the Atlantic Ocean. The current world record striped bass on hook and line is 78-pound 8-ounces and was caught by Al McReynolds during a…
From the VH1 Rock Honors, Pearl Jam plays “Love Reign O’er Me” from one of the best albums of all time, Quadraphenia by the Who. Revel in the awesomeness.
I remember when I first setup WordPress back in 2003, the old 1.x days, my comment was that “It’s just like a CMS (content management system) with most of the functionality removed.” Well, with the release of WordPress 2.6, I can finally eat my words. It’s now simply a content management system, and a darned good one at that. That’s right, content management system. To call it a blogging platform is to sell it short. It’s now all the features…