Author’s note, Nov. 11, 2020: This is a reworking of the article published Nov. 9, 2020, originally entitled “Next.js and Google ‘Best Practices’ = Bad News for Web Standards”. Based on the feedback I received after publication, I realized that the premise of my original article was incorr...
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Modern marketing is all about data and however hard you might try, you can't spend any time around marketers online without being subjected to endless think pieces, how-to guides, ebooks or other dreck about how we need to track and measure and count every little thing.
We've got click rates, impressions, conversion rates, open rates, ROAS, pageviews, bounces rates, ROI, CPM, CPC, impression share, average position, sessions, channels, landing pages, KPI after never ending KPI.
That'd be fine if all this shit meant something and we knew how to interpret it. But it doesn't and we don't.
Informing yourself about the aftermath of recent events? Did you know that the ‘math’ part originally referred to mowing a field? The “aftermath” is the new growth that comes after said field or meadow is mowed. Recommended podcast, by the way — a 5 minute listen each week. Screenshot from...
Violent altercations at political rallies have emerged at various times in US history – sometimes in stronger form than in 2016.
Republicans have become more extreme than Democrats.
The series of actions on issues from climate to health and immigration would come soon after the president-elect is sworn in Jan. 20.
Going back to normal is not enough. A revamp is required.
“Taste the Nation” is breezy in tone, but it exposes the betrayals at the heart of “American” cuisine.
Now that nearly all the votes have been counted, what comes next, and what, if any, opportunities does President Trump’s campaign have to continue contesting the results?
Joe Biden’s advisers are preparing for the president-elect to transition to the White house. This week, a group of policy experts assigned to every major government agency will begin laying plans to implement Mr. Biden’s agenda, according to a Biden transition official. The so-called agency review
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe rebuked the Trump administration for pushing out Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, one of three sudden departures of agency leaders in the past 48 hours.
The discovery of platypuses’ fluorescent fur has researchers wondering if the trait is more widespread among mammals than anyone has realized.
U.S. President Donald Trump could issue a flurry of pardons during his final days in power.
Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.
Two docuseries about NXIVM present a question: Are the people who have escaped a controlling organization the most reliable sources on what happened to them?