William M. Hartnett

I just can’t be bothered to bloviate much these days, as I’ve simply been too busy, you know, working. At work. Remarkably, the world and our industry has somehow managed to carry on. A lesson I sincerely hope we all might learn some day. Visits up 314 percent from the same period last year, uniques [...]

Probably staying put for at least the near future, but this seems like as good a time as any to think about greener pastures and the road ahead. You know, all that garbage. Will draw maps and craft neighborhood-targeted data and advertising strategies for food and cat-relocation costs. Act now!

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Give or take a few hundred, of course. I started working as a straight-out-of-college reporter in the Martin County bureau of The Palm Beach Post eight years ago today. Has it really been 4,209,120 minutes already? Those 70,152 hours just flew past.

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Same old, same old. Literally. All the same old posts remain the most popular. Visits were up 450 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 827 percent, page views up 51 percent, average page views down 73 percent and average time on site down 83 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and [...]

Seems like about half of the comments I’ve left on WordPress-powered blogs running Akismet lately have been diverted into the spam queue. Maybe it knows something I don’t, but I’ll just put out a friendly reminder to check your spam folder every now and then for legitimate comments.

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Because today I finally signed up, and my record of registering for products and services the very instant after they reach their zenith and begin a spectacular descent into unpopularity and insolvency is impeccable. Doesn’t matter whether I sign up during the private invite-only phase or two years after everyone and their parents, I ruin [...]

This just about sums today up. Photo by Flickr user Martin Deutsch.

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Took the first half of the month off, didn’t do terribly much during the second half of the month, and the old world kept on spinning. Visits were up 275 percent from the same period last year, uniques up 469 percent and page views up 123 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. [...]

Back from a brilliant two-week vacation. Tanned, rested, free from snowmobile-related injuries, etc. I also have a rare and much-in-demand photo of your humble host to share. This is how a native Floridian prepares for any temperature below 80 degrees fahrenheit:

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Noticeable traffic bumps at the beginning and end of the month, and March 2008 page views were up 166 percent from the year before. Here are the stats, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

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