Do you ever wonder how people use your site? I’ve seen site stats for years, but I like pictures and that why I was excited when I discovered Crazy Egg from reading yet another great post on Chris Brogans blog. (Question: Does Chris ever sleep?) If you have any site online, you owe it to yourself and the people who visit your site to give Crazy Egg a look.
Want to see it in action? Using Crazy Egg I did a short test on SuperGeekery, shortly... + read on
I just finished this month’s cover story from The Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The basic premise of the article is that due to the Internet, the amount of content available and how content is presented on it, the way we consume information has changed to such a degree that it may be altering our ability to process and ruminate on larger ideas. Our brains may be physically changing, thus “evolving under the pressure of information... + read on
If you have a Kindle from Amazon, there’s a feature feature called NowNow. You ask it any question and 3 real people, hired by Amazon, search for an answers and send them back to you. (The service is free for now, but it’s listed under the experimental label in the menu.)
I’ve used it several times and the answers have been surprisingly good. Today I asked a question without any definitive answer, “What is wrong with the world today and how... + read on
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When I travel, I usually have some sort of computer with me, whether it’s a laptop or something simpler like an iPod. Just over the past few days, after returning from an international trip, I learned of a new ruling that says that US Customs now has “the responsibility to check items such as laptops and other personal electronic devices to ensure that any item brought into the country complies with applicable law and is not a threat to the... + read on