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Matthew Powell's new Mac magazine is out

… and I have the cover story! woo!

Click the cover below to read the whole edition free. (The mag is published online, free of charge…)

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Applying for a Journalist US I-Visa: everything you need to know

Visa requirements for travelling to the US as a journalist are a constant source of discussion among Australian IT journos. I went straight to the source, The US Consulate Sydney, to get the myths debunked once and for all.

Aussie IT journos frequently toss up questions like:

  • [Big PR company] assures me I don't need a Visa to go to [big vendor lovefest] because Australia/US have a visa waiver scheme for visits of up to 90 days now… is it true?
  • I'm a journo but am visiting the US for a leisure visit, honest to god. Do I really need a journalist visa?
  • [Large video card manufacturer] has invited me to their conference in San Francisco, departing in less than a week. But the consulate has no visa appointments. Is there any way I can get my foot in the door?

Here are the facts…

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Need web analytics / stats advice!!!

I've figured out what I really need from a web analytics / stats package, and simultaneously discovered it doesn't seem to be something that any stats providers offer.

What I need is a package that can show me stats on content published within a certain timeframe. Stats packages seem to all be able to limit reports to content viewed within a certain timeframe, but this inevitably shows old content that people recently viewed.

Put simply: I want to be able to get stats on "how did this week's stories go?" — I want to be able to exclude all the old content that continues to draw traffic long term.

It seems like such a simple requirement — and something that all bloggers/publishers would find useful — but the actual capability is proving remarkably elusive.

On a technical level, it should be as easy as the stats package recording when a particular URL was first 'seen' on the site — but I can't find this function in Omniture or Google Analytics.

Anyone know a serverside or cloud stats package that can provide this functionality?

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