Call it a means to fuel (or decimate) the ego, to better target a demographic or market niche, or merely an interesting tidbit of numerical information, YouTube’s launch today of a detailed statistics tool has given users a great deal of insight into where their clips fit amongst the video viewing masses.
Via Official Google Blog (“Insight into YouTube videos“, 26 March 2008):
“…uploaders an see how often their videos are viewed in different geographic regions, as well as how popular they are relative to all videos in that market over a …

One of the people I follow on Twitter, (jeff)isageek, asked the question today: “With services like friendfeed, twitter, disqus, google reader, del.icio.us, etc [sic] do i even need a ‘traditional’ blog?”
From the standpoint of eLearning and educational technology, my answer is a resounding: Yes.
Sure, it’s important to evaluate new technologies in terms of how they can be used to embetter our online activities – and more importantly our offline activities – however this must be ever tempered by proper investigation and inquiry.  Immediately flocking to the next new trend without …

Target Audience: This guide is intended for PC users new to Linux and outlines an easy way to configure an existing Windows machine to run Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” in parallel.  It is acknowledge this may not be “dual-booting” in the true sense of the word, however from the standpoint of a new user it is considered comparable. 
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I’ve spent a great deal of time in Ubuntu lately, during which time I’ve discovered a really cool new feature in the Hardy Heron beta (v 8.04).  As ZDNet reported …

As I mentioned yesterday, I am regularly across several different operating systems over the course of the average day.  Typically this includes Mac OS 10.4 (Panther), Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Gibbon.
Recently however I’ve begun to think in earnest about ways to streamline my computational activities – and particularly to shed my reliance on proprietary software, most noteably Windows/Microsoft.
At the end of the day though the thought had always lingered that I’d have to maintain at least a minimal presence in Windows – like it or not. One …

I’m seeing a disturbing trend coming out of Mac-land right now, and it’s starting to piss me off.
As I mentioned yesterday, the slimy push to get Safari installed on PCs via the Apple Software update is poor form, but in and of itself it’s just irritating.  The motives that drove the decision on the other-hand are more disconcerting; but what makes me really angry is the arguments in support of the move coming out of the Mac-head camp.
In a comment on Paul Mison’s post “A Translation of “Apple’s Windows Invasion“, …