On the difficulty of measuring online traffic
Boing Boing: BoingBoing traffic stats are back. John Battelle talks about the difficulties in interpreting web statistics. A few comments based on my own experience at Microsoft.com: …of the columns you see, only the first one – “Unique Visitors,” and the last two “Hits” and “Bandwidth” can be taken at face value. “Unique Visitors” counts [...]
Blogsolidation
Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Six Apart Acquires Live Journal. With arguably the leading blogging platform company (at least in terms of adopter base, at least until they all move to WordPress) snapping up the leading blog-engine-for-people-who-aren’t-really-bloggers-but-more-like-diary-keepers, things just got interesting. More details at GigaOm.
