Archives for July, 2007
Radio Listeners Seem to Buy Less Music
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Or, More Fun With Correlation and Causality
An article in yesterday’s New York Times highlighted a recent study that found that “very roughly, an hour’s worth of radio listening per person per day, over the course of a year, corresponded with a 0.75 drop in the number of albums purchased per capita in a given city.” [...]
Widgets and page views and movies, oh my!
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Being a few items that appeared in my feed reader yesterday afternoon. The analytics wave continues to build.
Monday, 5:10PM
VentureBeat
Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker
Says Matt Marshall: “More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called ‘widgets,’ little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements. So measuring Web [...]
Scenes from an apartment in Brooklyn: iPhone Followup
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
A week or so ago I had dinner with a friend, and (of course) one of the topics discussed was the then-upcoming iPhone launch. We discussed the gamble of buying a 1.0 Apple product, the possibilities for interesting additions in upcoming iPhones, and (most of all) the painful cost of the iPhone. We [...]
