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Bitly FishEvery Twitter user loves bit.ly. It’s simple. It’s pretty. It’s quick. It makes it easy to jump right into getting click through metrics and see who’s actually reading your posts. But is it accurate? [Read More]

Hi! Thanks for helping me check Bit.ly statistics. I’ll post the results of my little test here. Please don’t refresh this page or anything funky, and I’ll report back on my findings on my main blog (comparing Bit.ly’s reporting, Drupal’s statistics and logging, and Google Analytics) at a later date....

Found via BingThere are a lot of things not like about Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, but children getting access to porn through its video preview shouldn’t be on the list. [Read More]

Update: The comments have an alternative method that works without installing anything and is retroactive. Unfortunately, that doesn't pull all Facebook chats, just the most recent ones [Read More]

Brian Morrissey, an editor at AdWeek and, since I joined the service, one of my favorite Twittering journalists (not to mention his homonymical last name to mine!), tackled shortcut-taking Twitter contests in a blog post of his own last week, and unsurprisingly he does a better job than yours truly,... [Read More]