Omniture SiteCatalyst news

more LJ silliness, nothing big, but guaranteed to get a number of people in an uproar again since they're still chafing from the last time:

As always, we are providing a way for any user to opt out of contributing to the stats-gathering (even though we know it runs the risk of statistically biasing our results). If you’d like to opt out, go to the Admin Console and type "set opt_exclude_stats 1". This opt out applies to the entire implementation of Omniture -- site-schemed pages and the new inclusion of journals, profiles and communities. If you've already opted out, you don't need to do so again.

since i don't care to be involved in having my journalling experience recorded and analyzed, i have opted out.

posts about such plans should not be made in a relatively obscure group like lj_biz but on news. 6A/LJ continues to not learn the lessons i would really like them to learn.

ETA: promoting a link from comments for other people who're also concerned about infringement of private data. i hadn't read LJ's privacy policy in some time. *ugh*.

rock on, karl schroeder

one of my favourite SFF writers, karl schroeder, has re-released his first novel, ventus, as an e-book under a creative commons license. if you've never yet read anything by him, go check it out. (there are reviews at the site, so i don't have to write one here :).