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Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:00AM You've installed Google Analytics, and you know the basics of reading the stats. Now what?
Now, you start really using GA to its full power to do stuff like tracking link clicks. Knowing which links your readers are clicking can give you the feedback you need to fine-tune the site to the interests of your community.
Here's a step-by-step demonstration.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 5:00AM Passed along by observant subscriber, Dave Kellett, here's a few thoughts on preserving your original art from the perspective of a museum curator. You can read the entire article at the Ohio State University Cartoon Library & Museum. Here are some highlights:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 6:01AM Pixlr was brought to my attention by subscriber Trev Wood. It's a free, online, image-editing application that duplicates much of the functionality of Adobe Photoshop. In fact, some are saying that it has the kind of functionality that might replace Photoshop in an iPad environment.
I gave the app a little test drive and found the following...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 5:00AM I'd like to build on something Mr. Khoo spoke about in yesterday's post: The Print vs Web debate.
As publishers feel the squeeze tighten, these little Print vs Web debates are bound to get more and more fierce. And that's a shame, because Print vs Web doesn't have anything to do with either.
It's actually a debate between traditional, corporate publishing and independent self-publishing. Always has been, always will be.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 12:39AM A few months ago Kurtz tweeted some article recently written by some old-school editorial cartoonist. The author was pretty derogatory about webcomics in general, but also seemed to have a particular venom toward Kurtz and Penny Arcade. I'll be up front and say I'm not really "up" on the world of editorial cartoonists, so I wasn't familiar with the work of this person, but it seemed like he was a big deal in the print world. (And by no means is that meant as a slight — my world is the game industry and online media. I just don't have the visibility for much more than that.)
