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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Bush Drops Fake Cowboy Shtick | Truce in Gaza? | Abstinence-Only Clowns?! Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work

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January 17th, 2009
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US Airways Flight 1549: This Miracle Brought to You By America's Unions
By Emptywheel, Firedoglake
Just about every single hero involved is a union member. Read more »

Truce in Gaza? Bush Must Be Exiting the Stage
By Steven D., Booman Tribune
One suspects this was the plan all along. Read more »

Karl Rove Wants You to Write a Goodbye Letter to Bush (Seriously)
By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
Rove revealed that he's putting together a letter-writing campaign to thank President Bush for his tenure -- public email and all. Read more »

Bush's Farewell Address: Still Delusional After All These Years
By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Bush's speech only reminds us of the importance of refusing to allow this delusional revisionism to stand. Read more »

Bush Drops Fake Cowboy Shtick
By Cenk Uygur, Huffington Post
Why does the press think its their job became to reinforce the fake images and storylines of politicians rather than to challenge them? Read more »

Bye Bye Bush Buoys Americans Abroad
By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly
You can now take that Canadian flag off your backpack. Read more »

Airbrushed Britney: Clever Street Art Makes Fun of Impossible Beauty Standards
By Cara, Feministe
Feminist vandalism? Read more »

Abstinence-Only Clowns?! Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work
By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
Meet Derek Dye: He's got a degree from Barnum Bailey Clown College, and an abstinence educator certification that can be purchased for $50. Read more »

Did Cheney Doze Off During Bush's Farewell Address?
By Staff, Huffington Post
Cheney wasn't the only one showing a lack of interest. Read more »

Rick Warren Proposes Hitler Youth as Model For Christian Activism
By Bruce Wilson
In stadium with 30K people, Rick Warren Called for revolution & asked for Christians to model devotion of Hitler Youth Read more »

Kerry Fears Afghanistan War Turning into Another Vietnam
By DJK, Brave New Films
Voicing concern during Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State confirmation hearing. Read more »

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War Porn and Smart Bombs Hit YouTube | Down with Pundit Max Boot | Social Movements 2.0

Media & Technology Newsletter
January 17th, 2009
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The Unsinkable Career of America's Leading Twerpo-Imperialist Pundit, Max Boot
By Mark Ames, The Nation
After the way they goaded us into an epic military disaster, why do media warmongers still have jobs? Read more »

Social Movements 2.0: Harnessing the Power of the Web for Change
By Brendan Smith, Tim Costello, Jeremy Brecher, The Nation
Social networking tools can help people reach across national and workplace borders, outflank bosses and politicians and wield collective power. Read more »

Smart Bombs and War Porn Hit YouTube
By Alexandra Samur, The Tyee
Israel using Net to highlight 'humane action and operational successes.' Read more »

Is Someone in China Reading Your E-mails?
By Maura Moynihan, AlterNet
China has a vast intelligence-gathering operation of Chinese citizens recruited to spy on and hack into U.S. computers. Read more »

Gawker Shocker: How the Web's Hottest Gossip Empire Lost Its Mojo
By Tim Walker, Alexis Ashman, Independent UK
Nick Denton built a multi-million-dollar gossip blog media company. But as he sells off his prime assets, can the Gawker kingpin survive? Read more »

Homeland Security Show Misses the Real Drama
By Raj Jayadev, New America Media
The real American drama is the inspiring epic of immigrants struggling to survive in a nation that both needs and rejects them. Read more »

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From George Will to Rachel Maddow: Obama Meets the Media
By Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post
The group also included the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson, among others. Read more »

White House Press Corps Sends Off Bush with a Very Awkward Goodbye
By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress
Some hesitated to stand, while most stayed seated. One said "thank you Mr. President," and a small number offered half-hearted applause. Read more »

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More Good UK News on The DailyDust today

One Evicted, One Walks, 8 Remain

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:16 AM CST

Tina voted out of Celeb Big Brother as Mutya decides to leave the circus.

With just under 39% of the public vote, an elated cry of "Yes!" saw Tina Malone receive the news that she was the second evictee from the Celebrity Big Brother House.

Mutya Buena, also up for eviction, had made the decision that tonight was going to be the last night in the house, evictee or not. And just before midnight, she walked.

"Thank you for the experience and making me realise what is important. I’m after a good night’s sleep and want to go home."

It's expected that we'll see Mutya leaving tonight on Channel 4's highlights show.

Burning Questions!

Los colores bonitos, or how I learned to stop worrying and compare multiple feed metrics.

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 05:45 AM PST

If you've been knocking about within FeedBurner using your Google Account, you may have noticed that the original "french fry" chart from the Analyze tab of the original feedburner.com is no more. This venerable bar chart, with its green picket fence of subscriber trend results, has been the first stop for many publishers when checking their feed analytics for years. In its place is new green-ness (and blue-ness) that communicates three times as much information in the same space, and sets the stage for more interesting reporting in the future. Here's a snapshot:

This 30-day view now offers the following information:

Daily subscriber totals (in green)

Daily reach totals (in blue)

The relationship between these two numbers over time

You can move the mouse over any day in the chart and see that day's specific totals for subscribers and reach, too. (Note that reach and subscribers are plotted with different y-axes: subscribers on left, reach on right).

The relationship between these numbers is the kicker:

Understanding that reach means people taking action by viewing or clicking on items in your feed helps you understand how engaged your audience is.
The more often you post (especially with full text), the more often people are likely to view your current (and previous) updates, and even click-through to your site for related information.

Note the blue spikes in reach above; these are centered around new posts. Steady subscriber growth occurred as this site promoted and redirected 100% of its original feed traffic to its feed.

Don't forget to click the "See more about your subscribers" link below the main chart to view a detailed breakdown of your subscriber traffic:

Comparing this chart, day by day, can help you spot where subscribers are coming from (and from what source they have gone missing, should there be a sudden drop).

While we're on the topic: make sure you can actually get the reach statistic — meaning, make sure you turn on item-level stats for your feed! They're used to help calculate reach. Visit the Analyze tab, look for the "Configure Stats" option, and make sure the boxes shown below are checked:

(You can, of course, check "downloads," too, if you're a podcaster). As a reminder: to view all feed stats' reports and options, either click the "View Feed Stats" next to your feed's ad unit listing in the AdSense Manage Ads section, or sign into feedburner.google.com and click on your feed's title on My Feeds.

— Jessie Chavez, Software Engineer, and Matt Shobe, User Experience Designer, AdSense for feeds