William M. Hartnett

Here’s the NBC Nightly News segment shot last week at The Palm Beach Post and broadcast Tuesday night. Included here at Matt’s suggestion. Probably not coincidentally, he’s in the background between 1:31 and 1:34 while The Post’s VP of digital is talking.

• Toyota beats Google in worldwide corporate reputation survey - Reputation Institute
  People always shoot me a confused look when I go banging on about Toyota. What would Google do? Pfft, forget that noise. What would Toyota do, that’s the better question. Get back to me when Google has been around eight decades and weathered a world war.
  (tags: toyota google)

The San Diego Union-Tribune, Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle.

How annoyed am I about this forecast track for Tropical Storm Bertha? Very. Very annoyed about this forecast track for Tropical Storm Bertha. Follow it and all the other hurricane season fun at colleague Matt’s Stormpulse.com, the best hurricane tracking site around.

UPDATE: Feeling less annoyed following the Sunday night update.

Neighborhood of the week is Lake Osborne Estates near Lake Worth.

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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 up 465 percent, page views up 94 percent, average page views down 53 percent and average time on site down 76 percent. The stats, then, from Google Analytics and Feedburner. Lifetime stats start Feb. 13, 2007.

TOP 10 POSTS

1. More Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros: HBO version lyrics (July 20, 2007)
2. NEW: Street View coverage of Palm Beach County. OLD: Aerial imagery captured 1,237 days ago. (June 10, 2008)
3. Google Maps vs. Virtual Earth: A geocoding accuracy showdown in West Palm Beach (Jan. 15, 2008)
4. What’s been going on at work lately? (June 25, 2008)
5. Just thinking happy thoughts and junk like that (June 25, 2008)
6. Now: Solve problems, fill needs, get jobs done. Later: Be cool. (June 4, 2008)
7. Jobs. At newspaper. Jobs at newspapers. Newspaper jobs. (June 19, 2008)
8. Introducing Backyard Post: Real-world neighborhoods as the foundation for a reappraisal of what a local newspaper should be (March 26, 2008)
9. This is a totally awesome picture of the only vehicle and type of behavior fit for a true American patriot (June 8, 2008)
10. The unwanted home-delivered free weekly newspaper: Worse than famine, war, hair loss (Jan. 23, 2008)

TRAFFIC SUMMARY

• 3,648 visits (32,287 lifetime)
• 3,150 unique visitors (25,809 lifetime)
• 5,910 page views (63,272 lifetime)
• 1.62 average page views (1.96 lifetime)
• 1:11 average time on site (1:59 lifetime)
• 74.95% bounce rate (72.28% lifetime)
• 84.38% new visits (79.96% lifetime)
• 5.2 GB bandwidth usage

FEED SUBSCRIPTION SUMMARY

• 98 minimum (5 lifetime)
• 131 maximum (131 lifetime)
• 117 mean (63 lifetime)
• 117 median (61 lifetime)
• 128 mode (22 lifetime)

BROWSERS

• Internet Explorer: 1,656 visits, 45.39% (44.08% lifetime)
  • 66.73% IE 7
  • 33.21% IE 6
  • 0.06% IE 8
• Firefox: 1,577 visits, 43.23% (45.94% lifetime)
  • 77.81% FF 2
  • 20.16% FF 3
  • 2.03% FF 1.5 and below
• Safari: 358 visits, 9.81% (8.24% lifetime)
• Opera: 23 visits, 0.63% (0.76% lifetime)
• Mozilla: 21 visits, 0.57% (0.39% lifetime)
• Netscape: 7 visits, 0.19% (0.31% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)
• Unknown: 1 visit, 0.03% (<0.00% lifetime)
• Camino: 1 visit, 0.03% (0.21% lifetime)
• Samsung-SGH-I617: 1 visit, 0.03% (<0.00% lifetime)

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• Windows: 2,903 visits, 79.58% (81.33% lifetime)
  • 78.19% XP
  • 16.74% Vista
  • 2.86% Server 2003
  • 1.79% 2000
  • 0.24% 98
  • 0.14% CE
  • 0.03% ME
• Mac: 686 visits, 18.80% (16.89% lifetime)
  • 67.49% Intel
  • 32.51% Power PC
• Linux: 32 visits, 0.88% (1.22% lifetime)
• iPhone: 10 visits, 0.27% (0.15% lifetime)
• iPod: 6 visits, 0.16% (0.10% lifetime)
• Unknown: 5 visits, 0.14% (0.23% lifetime)
• Danger Hiptop: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)
• Playstation 3: 3 visits, 0.08% (0.02% lifetime)

TOP 5 SCREEN RESOLUTIONS

• 1024 x 768: 1,070 visits, 29.33% (31.87% lifetime)
• 1280 x 1024: 689 visits, 18.89% (22.88% lifetime)
• 1280 x 800: 669 visits, 18.34% (15.50% lifetime)
• 1440 x 900: 328 visits, 8.99% (7.77% lifetime)
• 1680 x 1050: 289 visits, 7.10% (5.40% lifetime)

(totally subjective) TOP 5 ACTUAL SEARCH STRINGS

• kangaroo skinning machine
• lee abrams must die
• nourishment of ostriches
• what’s killing us today?
• why my cat delivered someone else’s house?

It really is a shame that one so often sees the Gadsden flag in the hands of nutjobs these days, because it’s always been a personal favorite. Consider what Benjamin Franklin wrote of the rattlesnake as a symbol for America:

“She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.”

Well, then.

• Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008 - 37signals Product Blog
  “Since IE 6 usage has finally dipped below a small minority threshold of our customers, it’s time to finally move beyond IE 6.” Backyard Post *never* supported IE 6. That’s keepin’ it real.
  (tags: browser ie6 37signals)