Measuring blogs, part 3: Tracking RSS the old fashioned way?
A reader emailed after my post last week about measuring RSS to ask “Why not slip a 1 pixel ‘webbug’ into the RSS feed?” Good question.
Advantages of web bug graphics:
Unobtrusive in the RSS reader’s pane.
A direct hit to your server, allows you to play games like feed views and unique users. Note I didn’t say [...]
Second blogaversary
Today is my second blogaversary. Two years ago I started this blog in earnest and quickly got embroiled in XMLRPC, scripting, and other stuff. Since my first blogaversary, graduating from business school, moving 3000 miles, and buying a house, the blog has been a lot less technical and hopefully a little more human (apologies to [...]
AmazonHandler acting up
I’ve had no less than four people contact me within the last few weeks to tell me that AmazonHandler, my AppleScript glue to allow calling the Amazon Web Services API, isn’t working for them. The most common error is “Can’t make ‘http://soap.amazon.com/onca/soap’ into a record” but others have been reported as well, including problems with [...]
