Mike Friedman

I do not think I'm exaggerating when I say I think this might be one of the greatest websites ever created and that I'm extremely jealous I did not think of this first. https://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

https://clarity.microsoft.com/ Microsoft just launched this new and free tool. It provides some analytical data on your users, but the really interesting part of it to me is it provides heatmaps and session recordings for free. There are other tools that do that, but they are pretty expensive. There is also no cap on it. If you get 1 million visitors a month, no problem. They say it is designed to not impact page speed. We will see about that. I'm going to add it to a few sites today and start testing. Will be interested to hear feedback from others on what they are seeing with

By the way, on a side note, if anyone has had a look at the new Google Analytics 4, if you are not used to Google Data Studio, you better get used to it. Google Analytics is largely shifting from a reporting tool to an analysis tool. Reporting is going to have to be done in GDS. Of course, the migration might be a hear or two away, but it is coming.

Looking for feedback on a new GDS template I'm creating. https://datastudio.google.com/s/pCDKl5a1sBE Right now it is just hooked up to Google's sample data. None of that data is for a real site. And ignore the Google Ads page. The page works if you hook it up to a real Google Ads account. I'm not sure why it is not working with the sample data. If you are familiar with Google Data Studio, you can grab it and hook up your own data to see. If you do grab it and use it, just know that for the Search Performance area to work correctly, you need to hook up both the URL and Site

Just a little PSA for those of you not so technically inclined. When you "mute" your Zoom call, that does not turn off the webcam. And I can never unsee what I saw.

Cannot find any information about exactly what those abuses are that the government is alleging. I think this case is going to be an easy win for Google. The President has been calling for a suit against them for over a year. It's going to be hard for the government to prove this is not politically motivated because of that. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/tech/doj-google-antitrust-case/index.html

The struggle is real. Finding information about Google Analytics 4 is tough right now. I installed it in parallel to UA on one site so far just to have a look at it, but I have not started to play around with setting up events, goal tracking, etc.

I am not going to be shocked if it vanishes.

Zoom has now become a verb like Google.

But is it too good? I think it is fine when it comes to hobbies like gaming, hunting, skateboarding, etc. It's a little different when it comes to "news". The pandemic is a perfect example of this where you had people doubting that it was really anything serious or that they should be wearing a mask, and then having those opinions backed up by other morons that thought the same thing.

Finally got around to watching this. I do not think there was anything too shocking in there that most of us did not know, but it was a bit eerie the way it laid out how people on Facebook are being kept in their own bubbles based on their own biases that they entered Facebook with. In other words, if you interact with a lot of conspiracy type posts and videos, you get fed more conspiracy type posts and videos. If you follow extreme right or left-wing bloggers, you will be fed more right or left-wing bloggers. I liked how it laid out how so many people cannot understand how the other side

There has definitely been an uptick in social media usage, for better or for worse.

Yep. Assuming he didn't break any laws (and it sounds like there may have been some liberal deductions at the least), I do not really have any issue with it.

The word gasping was trending on Twitter last night, so people definitely noticed. These theatrics are just playing to his base, but I wonder how many reasonable people are being totally turned off by his cavalier attitude towards how serious the virus is and maybe even motivating them to vote where they would not have voted otherwise. Maybe even galvanizing people who have lost loved ones during the pandemic to not just vote but rally those around them to vote against him. More than anything, I don't think it was a planned strategic move as much as a move to feed his own ego.

Yeah, I don't think he would fake the infection to postpone the election either, but now that he has the infection I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to use it to postpone things. If Trump were to pass before the election and the party rallied around Pence as the new candidate, I could see it bringing out a lot more conservatives to vote than what are planning on voting now. It would probably sway the election their way. His passing would be a rallying cry. The extreme believers would more or less make him into some kind of a martyr.