Archive for May, 2007

Random picture of my cat, Vol. 14 »

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Florida Home 13: 2007-05-26 »

Neighborhood of the week is Alden Ridge west of Boynton Beach.
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A brilliant solution to a non-existent problem »

For the newspaper reader who spends a lot of time on the pot, and has an extremely narrow bathroom: The Loo Read. Broadsheet model available for a mere £69.99, or roughly $14,000. Roughly. These should be standard equipment in newspaper office bathroom stalls.
(Via CrunchGear)

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TV news in the comics »

A nice summary of some of the utter drivel that polluted the airwaves during May sweeps.

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Google Analytics complaint of the day »

Oh, Google Analytics, I love how kooky you are. At the moment, for example, you’re showing me data from today, but nothing for the last nine hours of Thursday. It’s so fun and unpredictable!
What I really love is the way you’ve communicated absolutely nothing to your users throughout this whole week of sketchy performance. Very [...]

Read the post, do something about it »

No need to write my own post on the implications for newspapers of Adrian Holovaty’s latest project because Matt Waite already said what I was thinking: Why you, newspaper.com, need to fear this. Seriously, go read it. Then share it with your colleagues and editors. Then do something about it, for Pete’s sake. As Matt [...]

More bad news for movie critics »

I heard Tribune was dropping movie critics at all of its papers apart from those in Los Angeles and Chicago, but I didn’t think it was going to happen this fast. (Link via Broward New Times)
I’ll just add this advice for movie critics, which Lucas Grindley offered back in November:
“Don’t wait around for this same [...]

Meanwhile, in journalism land »

(No more moaning about Google Analytics for, at minimum, the rest of the day. Promise.) Most readers of this site will no doubt have already read about the Knight News Challenge grant winners. On the off chance some of you have not, I’ll just call your attention to a few.
Adrian Holovaty, everyone’s favorite journalist/developer/YouTube star, [...]

Google Analytics back, sorta »

As Ross points out in the comments to my last post on Google Analytics’ downtime, it looks like things are back up now. Kind of. The old interface is showing data for today, but still isn’t displaying anything from 4 p.m. to midnight Tuesday. And the new interface isn’t showing anything today. Just looking for [...]

Yet another Google Analytics complaint »

Google Analytics hasn’t been reporting any results for more than 20 hours now. Annoyed. Drop by the Analytics Help section of Google Groups to commiserate if you’re similarly devastated by the loss of your statistical heroin drip. This is merely a personal annoyance for me, but I’d be livid if I was using Google Analytics [...]