Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. I found this by way of one of my favorite new blogs, Lifehacker. Lifehacker is great, and shares some of my ethos about technology. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.
Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter, which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc.
Google Analytics is also free. You can follow 10 sites instead of one. And it does all of the same stuff, except better. And you don’t have to have that silly cube graphic in some far corner of your site. (Some of what Analytics does I don’t even understand yet.) And in terms of interface, it blows Sitemeter out of the water.
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