John Borthwick has captured in words what many have been grappling with in a less articulate way for about 18 months. The new paradigm we need to think about the internet has finally emerged. This snippet outlines the broad trend: Start with this constant, real time, flowing stream of data getting p ...
Google has been busy recently updating the ways it displays search results. First they improved local search by matching you IP address with your search terms. So now when you search for pizza, you’ll get all the results for pizza restaurants near your zip code. Shortly after, Google added the optio ...
There is new life in the tool that shows change in Google Analytics. A year after releasing our Greasemonkey script, we are pleased to release an updated version of the Enhanced Google Analytics script as a free Firefox Plugin. For those already using the older Greasemonkey script, you can skip ahea ...
There is new life in the tool that shows change in Google Analytics. A year after releasing our Greasemonkey script, we are pleased to release an updated version of the Enhanced Google Analytics script as a free Firefox Plugin. For those already using the older Greasemonkey script, you can skip ahea ...
Welcome to the 10th edition of the Carnival of College Admission. As always, we welcome our regular contributors, as well as a bevy of new folks. In honor of my upcoming trip to Hong Kong to give a presentation on college admission in the US and to meet with clients, we’ll have a look at how the Lun ...
Today a reader called me out on my decision to focus in a recent post on the Top 10 Value Colleges as identified by the Princeton Review (Kiplinger’s has a similar list, about which I also wrote about). My reader made the point that public universities can be a better deal, and that the list of publ ...
The Princeton Review has published its latest list of “best value” colleges. This list sells nice glossy magazines, but provides precious little information to help consumers of higher education (i.e., high school juniors and seniors and their parents) figure out where they will bet the best educati ...