The Big Picture - Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Technology, and Digital Media

Interesting interactive graphic showing what nations are censoring the internet, what content they are restricting, and the methods they using.

Hat tip Good

I’ve made a few tweaks, as you may have noticed. If there are any problems, please bring them to my attention.

1. Google Search restored (yeah!)

2. G+ added to share bar at the end of every post.

3. Mobile iPhone version. Note this is user definable, with a toggle (Desktop/Mobile) button at the bottom of site. Or, you can choose your link
• Mobile
• Desktop

Note that if you cannot switch, log out and log back in, the default is desktop.

BTW, that is a cheap off the shelf plugin for iPhones. If anyone has a better suggestion for mobile phones/tablets, I am all ears!

Check out the new site layout on Your iPhone or Android — it looks pretty cool, courtesy of Mobile WordPress at wptap.com.

Except I never authorized this.

Somehow, my site has been changed, without me ever permissioning anyone to do so, or even knowing about it (until someone tweeted me). I am trying to figure how that happened.

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UPDATE: January 8, 2012 8:43am

Yes, my developer installed that plugin based upon a request I made last year — he forgot to tell me he was pushing it out yesterday!

So there will be a mobile version of TBP for iPhones, Androids, and iPad.And, you can flick it off at the bottom of the page.

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Nice grouping of economic blogs named “essentail” in Inc this week. (click thru for the full discussion on each).

They describe the list as “for independent thinkers only: These online columnists see around the curves to the global economic trends that will affect your business.”

Nice company to keep. Here is their top 10:

1. Seeking Alpha Market Currents
2. The Big Picture
3. Real Time Economics
4. DealBook
5. Financial Armageddon
6. FT Alphaville
7. Zero Hedge
8. Naked Capitalism
9. Calculated Risk
10. Mish’s Global Economic Analysis

These lists always leave out so many deserving sites and blogs, but this run is as good as any other.   Always nice to be included.

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Source:
10 Essential Economic Blogs
By Constantine von Hoffman | @CurseYouKhan
INC, Dec 26, 2011

So I have been mulling about a few things I would like to do to the site:

• Develop iPhone/Android Mobile version of the blog;
• Come up with an iPad version as well
• Do more infographic design
• Make each tab design independent (do we really still need tabs?)
• Freshen up the design, menus, sidebar
• Create more interactive features (quotes, twitter feeds, market postures)
• Add Google Plus to the social share at bottom
• Embed adverts into the RSS feeds

Any ideas or suggestions for the site are appreciated.

If anyone can refer me to a programmer who specializes in these sorts of things, it would be appreciated.

Click to enlarge:

Source: How Does Google AdWords Work?
Search Engine Land Infographics

Apologies if some of your comments have been taking a while to show up.

The Washington Post madness has meant we are overrun with spam, trolls and loons.

I cranked the filters up to 11 and that means lots of legitimate comments are getting caught. I have been working my way through the backlog, and publishing them as fast as we can disentangle them from the nets.

Be back shortly . . .

Those of you who use Google’s excellent free site analytics tool (aka Dashboard) will be thrilled to learn that the analytical software tool you us to analyzing past performance is now going to be real time:

The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and modify it only when new products were launched. All of us avid Analytics users know that’s just not good enough. We need to be constantly on the lookout for problems and opportunities.

Currently, Google Analytics does a great job analyzing past performance. Today we’re very excited to bring real time data to Google Analytics with the launch of Google Analytics Real-Time: a set of new reports that show what’s happening on your site as it happens.

That is pretty awesome. There are lots of tools that claim to measure traffic (Alexa, Compete, etc.) but they are mostly empty estimates. I will address this in a future post.

Bottom line is Google Analytics is free, its very very good, and its about to get a whole lot better — and real time to boot.

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Source:
What’s happening on your site right now?
September 29, 2011
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

Kudos to Felix and Ryan — the Counterparties site looks great.

I don’t know if the world needs another MSM curator — they are competing with NYT’s Dealbook, FT’s Alphaville, and WSJ’s MarketBeat — but it looks like a legitimate competitor in the space.

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