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The Washington Post write an article today that revealed that the whitehouse web site uses a cookie to track visitors. OH NOOOO, the evil plot is exposed. Here is my Whitehouse cookie value
ACOOKIE=C8ctADY5LjE3MS40My4zMi0yNzA4NTU2MzY4LjI5NzUxMzY3
AAAAAAAAAAAGAAAABHEAABr
/kUMa/5FDTU4AAOQ3tENON7RD
/WAAACFEtEPrQrRDFWAAAMT5mEN69ZhDwmkAAPxaqEP8Wqh
DbIsAAJVlqUOeZKlDBgAAAD0tAAAa
/5FDGv+RQ38cAADkN7RDTje0Q0ooAAAhRLRD60K0Q
/gnAADE+ZhDevWYQ7orAAD8WqhD
/FqoQx42AACVZalDnmSpQwAAAAA-
How nefarious is that? Look at all of my personal information they are passing back to that evil corporate giant WebTrends.
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The awesomeness of Google’s AdSense is that they are contextual, or at least they try to be. Lately, though it seems like they are trying out a lot of interesting tricks. For instance the ads that appear in the left navigation of this site have been turning into full on banner ads. This evening this [...]

Is this the end? As you are probably already aware that Google and AOL recently agreed to a huge business deal. All the details are still being ironed out but AOL is going to get to place ads on Google’s pages and Google is going to attempt to legitimize AOL’s business. I can’t help but [...]

One of the ways that you can market your company or product is to place well timed comments on a blog. There are varying degrees of effectiveness, the low end being comment spam (boo) and the high end being what I am about to explain here.
I created a post on Dec. 22nd called Technorati Addiction. [...]

Now that some of the dust is settling with the whole Google Analytics release sort of. I have had people ask me:
so what do you think of google analytics? have you tried it out?
i tried it when it first came out but i couldn’t get it working right and lost patience with it. i ended [...]

One more post. dot dot dot.
Uhhh, hello.
If this works then the U2 concert post will be relegated to the archives and my CSS troubles with IE will be over at least on my main page. And since the majority of internet users use IE one of my most glaring usability issues will have [...]

I have never been a fan of Technorati. It always seemed so “too cool” for me. But I messed with it a little bit over the last couple of days. I registered my self, registered my blog, dinked around with their pinging service, [...]

Battelle Media is hosting some random crap right now. I wonder who tripped over a power cord out there.
Battelle Watch begins here. :)
Update: It seems that all is well with Battelle Media. I had the redirect cached in my browser all day, but honestly there was a problem. Seriously.
See here and here.

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Harrumphh!

I just got a copy of Web Analytics Demystified by Eric Peterson. I haven’t read it yet and in all honesty it is unlikely that I will ever read the whole thing, but it got me thinking. It seems like when dealing with web analytics people tend to approach it from a poverty mentality. What [...]