Archive for June 12th, 2007

Hourly reporting added to new Google Analytics »

The beta label gets dropped from the new Google Analytics interface, new features are added, and hourly reporting makes a welcome, long overdue return. Read all about it at the official GA blog: You Asked For it, You Got It. New Features Added to Google Analytics. Now I can finally stop using the old interface [...]

A better way to highlight our best work »

Derek Willis proposes an intriguing method to aggregate and highlight the news biz’s best enterprise and public service work: Finding Enterprise Reporting. Let’s not let this one languish on the pile of other forward-thinking ideas never acted upon simply because it requires a relatively minor bit of industry cooperation. This is a discussion worth continuing.

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Google Maps imagery update »

Google Maps Mania reports a big satellite imagery update, including new high resolution coverage in parts of Europe, Japan and Canada. U.S. locations with new imagery include Yellowstone National Park, Washington, D.C., St. Paul, Minn., Houston and, apparently, the entire state of Alabama. The Alabama coverage is good news if, like me, you’ve been wondering [...]

Science is awesome; Bending light in new ways »

> Light Fantastic: Flirting With Invisibility (NYT)
I’ll take my invisibility suit in a 31-inch waist and a 30-inch inseam, please.

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Some nuggets for the ArcGIS crowd »

Is it even possible to say the name of ESRI founder and president Jack Dangermond without conjuring the image of a certain devil-may-care, one-eyed cartoon mouse? I ask because there are a few particularly interesting items from dane-gerrr-monnnnd among the answers to the ESRI User Conference questionnaire.
(OK, I’ll admit that dane-gerrr-monnnnd might have been a [...]