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I've been using the Google Analytics service for a few weeks on WebProBlog ... and I give it two thumbs up.

Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post.

Is a blog that uses pictures in its posts more likely to succeed that a blog that posts identical content but doesn't use the pictures? Sure, we know that there are many other considerations in the success or otherwise of a blog, but take a pure economists view of a perfect market where both blogs are identical in every other way.

Google has one of the worst corporate governance of any company in the S&P 500 index according to a highly respected advisory group.

I remember the good old days of the internet when it was a real treat to subscribe to someone's newsletter and receive all their wonderful information through the convenience of your email.

As the Internet moves forward, Extensible Markup Language, XML, is poised to become the method for interchanging information among all sorts of devices. For instance, a hand-held Global Positioning System device might be Internet-enabled to receive weather reports encoded in XML. This hypothetical device doesn't have a lot of extra memory to do all the error-checking and "forgiving" that a browser can do with your HTML. This means that servers must ensure that the data is "good to go" before sending it to the device. XML Schema is a new method that the World Wide Web Consortium has come up with to help make sure your data is valid.