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PostRank tracks reader engagement metrics

PostRank is the third and final look at web analytics tools in this series. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve also had a look at Google Analytics and Woopra. PostRank offers more services than just analytics, but this post will only examine the web metrics aspect of what they do. The service isn’t free, [...]

United by music

This is off topic. I just needed it today. Maybe you do, too. From Playing for  Change.

Useful Links: Peer to Peer, Bill Gates, EVs

Needed: Peer to Peer Twitter (or did Google get it backwards?) at Rare Pattern raises some interesting questions. Bill Gates: The Most Important Climate Speech of the Year is a TED Talks reported on at WorldChanging. Here’s a teaser. I don’t see the video on TED.com yet. . . . he acknowledged the only sensible [...]

Video from Standards and Accessibility with Dreamweaver

The video of Emily Lewis and I co-presenting about accessibility and standards in Dreamweaver is now on Viddler. You can see that we meet in the back room of an Albuquerque bar for the Webuquerque meets, so it’s noisy and a bit dark. Related posts: Standards and Accessibility with Dreamweaver, where you will find a [...]

Women in Tech: Maria “ubergeeke” Webster

Meet Maria Webster, aka ubergeeke, an engineering student, geek, and chronicler of what women in tech are doing at .51. She answered some questions for me to give readers an opportunity to learn more about this interesting woman. Q: I noticed your blog, .51, or dotFiveOne, when you first registered at BlogHer and have been [...]

Mr. President

Webkit passes Acid3 and what it all means

Safari announced a while back that its browser passed all the Acid3 tests successfully. Lars Gunther posted an article at the Web Standards Project Buzz to explain Acid3 receptions and misconceptions and do we have a winner? Among other things, Lars said, There has been some confusion about the test and its importance. Some people [...]

The Related Files bar in Dreamweaver CS4

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 introduced the related files bar. It appears at the top of each document window and lists all CSS and JavaScript files that are related to the web page. If you’re using a server-side programming language like PHP, you also see included server-side files listed in the related files bar. In this example [...]

Solar Fiesta Photo Tour

Make a Smilebox photobook  

10,000 Miles

What would it cost to drive 10,000 miles if gas cost $3.50 gallon? Here’s the data based on miles per gallon. Cost of gas MPG COST 15 $2333 20 $1750 25 $1400 30 $1165 35 $ 997 40 $ 875 45 $ 777 Related Post: Bulding a Worldwide Climate Movement