Random Articles

• Odd Friday in Minneapolis I’ve been working out of the home office most of the week. Today was my first opportunity to spend some time around the city. You know - with other people. Glad I did. I caught a slightly-punk late-twentysomething, walking casually down Nicollet Mall with full-grown macaw on his right shoulder. Yes, they were deep in
• Podcast Advertising Not Working for Me 1. The (second) battery in my 3G iPod is dying and I want to buy a replacement. A while back, an iPod battery replacement company was running ads at Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles. But that’s all I remember. At the time the ads were running, I didn’t need an iPod battery. Now I do and
• Bye Rex, Thanks for the Party (Matt Thompson from the Strib and me in a MNstories video documenting the party.) I, along with 600 of Rex Sorgatz’s closest friends wished him well in his move to Seattle and Microsoft last night. Honestly, I haven’t been to a blow out like that in quite a while. The food, the drink, the hundreds of hipsters
• Why Google Analytics Isn’t Useful After a couple months of being completely without site analytics, I thought I’d try out Google Analytics. Things it doesn’t measure; RSS feeds, downloads, downloads from RSS feeds. Considering 95% of what I’m tracking is accessible via an RSS feed (like podcasts). Google isn’t helping me. The previous iteration of their tool - Urchin, was
• Minneapolis Scobleized Tim, Cody, Chuck and I grabbed a drink with Robert Scoble tonight. And I also met local open source CMS developer Tim Broeke from ElectricJet. If you’re finger isn’t on the pulse of weblogs, Scoble is Microsoft’s überblogger. He was in town to start a conversation with Target. I applaud Target for this. There are only a