Fun with Movable Type and Google Analytics
Postgraduate school is fairly busy, and I haven't been posting any new women's studies-related articles at womensstudies.info for some time, alas. But at least my sanity was still intact enough to run an upgrade to MT. Mmmm.
So far the upgrade to Movable Type 3.31 seems to have been rather painless. The only off-putting thing was the (apparent) move from a web page-based manual to a PDF one.
Against my better judgement, I've decided to also use Google Analytics for gathering some data on the tph diary and the SCMA website. While I have some misgivings about the privacy implications, after being largely satisfied over Google's privacy policies at least in the area of informed consent, I'm already for the SCMA site finding out some useful implications for the geographical audience, which is very much Aotearoa/NZ-centred at the moment. There's more bits and pieces such as screen resolutions, too, and this solution seems more seamless than others I've seen previously. Meh. For the possible privacy paranoia out there, my only real use for using it on either site is to use the aggregate statistics that it provides to tailor for the small audience I and SCMA respectively have.
Time will tell though if it's actually any bit useful, of course. :)