Michaelbox

Ear­lier today in the Word­Press IRC help chan­nel, some­one asked the ques­tion about what’s the “best” web traf­fic and ana­lyt­ics plu­gin that any­one knew about. I was answer­ing with Google Ana­lyt­ics as that’s what I used and had low issue with. How­ever, some­one else men­tioned Piwik, and being the curi­ous type, I checked it out.

It all looked stan­dard fare and what I’d expect out of web ana­lyt­ics. How­ever, I stum­bled across this bul­let point and that more or less sold me on try­ing it out.

You own your web ana­lyt­ics data: because Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own data­base and you can get all the sta­tis­tics using the pow­er­ful Piwik Ana­lyt­ics API.

I really liked the idea of own­ing my own traf­fic data instead of hav­ing it all reside on Google’s server. Over time, I’ve grown to become more sus­pi­cious of what they are and could be doing with the data they have on me. While I know I can’t avoid them com­pletely, gmail for exam­ple and android smart­phones, I can limit what they have on me in other areas. I no longer use them as my default search either, I’ve moved over to Duck Duck Go.

Nonethe­less, we’ll see exactly how well I end up lik­ing Piwik, but from what I’ve seen so far, I will likely remain happy for a long while, and retain my own data.

Which side do you rep­re­sent? (repost urged from fel­low Fedora Design Team members)

Vi(m)

or

Emac?

With all due respect to both past and future inter­views, I con­sider this one to be my most impor­tant. With this inter­view, I am hold­ing up a mir­ror to your pasts. When you look into this mir­ror, you do not see your­self, you see Alex Cook. “What do you mean” you say? Alex is fresh out of Uni­ver­sity, and at the start of her path to her career.

(con­tinue reading…)

What would be your sug­gested apps for a Motorola Droid? I’m look­ing for gen­eral use, pro­duc­tiv­ity in life, and web design/development in spe­cific if pos­si­ble. Let me know of your sug­ges­tions! I appre­ci­ate the help.

Hello! I really REALLY am enjoy­ing this pur­chase. How­ever that’s all for now