Jon Stahl's Journal

Google Analytics: script to track outbound links and downloads :: immeria :: web analytics blog :: Stephane Hamel another, event-based approach (tags: google javascript analytics)

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Cicero – Home (tags: politics gis webservices api)

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Commenting with Facebook Connect add facebook-powered commenting to your site (tags: social-networking comments facebook)

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InDesign to XML (tags: xml indesign)

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CloudBerry Explorer – Windows Client for Amazon S3 (tags: amazon s3 windows) Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? answer: 3, maybe 4. GPL, LGPL, Apache, maybe Affero (tags: open-source legal)

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While I use and enjoy using Facebook, I’ve long been very careful about what original content I upload there, especially photos, because Facebook asserts rather broad-ranging rights to use and re-use my content in its Terms of Service. Well, Facebook just got even more aggressive, revising its Terms of Service to eliminate the clause that [...]

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Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies facebook crosses the chasm? (tags: social-networking) Why the 2010 Census Stirs Up Partisan Politics First census under a Democratic administration in 30 years. Keep your eye on this. The Republicans certainly are. (tags: politics) Social Media Fundraising: Unsustainable, Scarcity-Based Begging? | Creating the Future! A perceptive critique and thoughtful [...]

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UUorld interesting low-cost geo-visualization tool (tags: software maps gis statistics)

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Paul Krugman so often gives eloquent voice to common sense: And I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach — a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years. The best may not lack all conviction, but they seem alarmingly [...]

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WinShortcutter 2.2 lets macs use shortcuts on a windows file share (tags: macintosh utilities)

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Pew Internet: Adults and Social Network Services Social media usage among adults increases, still low (tags: research social-networking onelist pew)

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Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) (tags: amazon webservices ecommerce api engagement-platform) A city that thinks like the web, slides + audio « commonspace A nice talk on how cities can do a better job of opening data and listening online. (tags: technology government talks onelist)

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As of this week, and much to my surprise, I’m officially a published author! Along with a dozen other talented Plone community members, I contributed three chapters to Practical Plone 3: A Beginner’s Guide to Building Powerful Websites.  A modest contribution the annals of technical nonfiction, to be sure, but I’m still tickled pink at [...]

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tunnelblick – Google Code (tags: vpn macintosh) Viscosity – OpenVPN Client for Mac (tags: vpn macintosh) Tutorials – DD-WRT Wiki (tags: vpn) SmallNetBuilder – Small Network Help – How To Set Up a Site-to-Site VPN with OpenVPN (tags: vpn)

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