ZDNet Discovers Text Analytics?

I am fan of some of the information and insight I get from ZDNet. A November 24th, 2008 commentary suggested that leveraging search engine words to develop a text analytics practice would be helpful in determining “Questions and queries, such as ‘How did the...

Yahoo! Delivers Analytics Solution

I was cautious when I read a Web Analytics Association member prediction that web analytics companies, as we know them today will cease to exist. Another potentially free solution may have pushed us one more notch in that direction. Yahoo has announced on their blog...

Web Analytics: Don’t Try This At Home!

Web analytics isn’t rocket science. It’s more like exploratory brain surgery with a mouse instead of a scalpel. It can shed light on details of your business that you never knew you could find. Analytics represent the behavior pattern of your users. Many...

Newsrooms and Social Media

I spent nine years in radio as a reporter, on-air talent and program director. By nature, newsrooms are not the most social media friendly place in the world. Reporters and producers are the gatekeepers of the facts. While social media threatens the perceived balance...

“I kan haz web analitikz?” at Ignite Boston 4

It was great meeting so many of you at O’Reilly Ignite Boston 4 on September 11, 2008. Special thanks to the kind folks at  ICanHasCheezburger.com who let me create and use some images to make my points about web analytics. Actually, web analytics has everything...