Starting with our Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have. (Thanks, Google!) This information will show up in tonight's subscriber reports (meaning that most of you will start to see the data on Saturday morning, U.S. Central Time).

What does this mean? This is one more data point to help you understand how many people have asked to receive your feed (aka "subscribers"). For those who are interested in the particulars, the number that Google is reporting is the total number of Google users who've subscribed to your feed in Reader or with Personalized Homepage.

While the subscriber number reflects overall interest in your content, keep in mind that there are plenty of other metrics within FeedBurner that help you more fully understand distribution and consumption. Now would be a good time to remind you that you can track clickthroughs for each item in your feed, and each item will show a breakdown on an aggregator-by-aggregator basis to help you understand which clients drive the most traffic to your site. Our TotalStats service measures Item Views (actual reads of your feed items) and Reach (number of unique people who viewed or clicked on your content). And our free StandardStats website metrics will provide you with numerous additional details on your inbound traffic from aggregators.

Want to build your subscriber numbers with Google's services? Make subscribing easier for your visitors. Look for the Google subscription button as an option in both our BrowserFriendly and ChickletChooser services for FeedBurner feeds in your account. Both give you the ability to offer Google as a subscription option in your feed and on your website with just a few clicks.

很久就有把首页做成三栏的想法。原来的两栏设计是基于 800*600 分辨率的，如果内容多一些，页面拉的特别长。现在使用 17 寸显示器的人越来越多，宽屏用户也越来越多，所以向"宽、大"的角度下手或许会好一点。

Movtype Type 的模版设计还是在扩展性上下了很大功夫的，通过调整 alpha、Beta、Gamma 这三个层的设定，相对比较容易。这次修改的过程中唯一比较麻烦的是关于右边栏"对齐"的细微差别耗费了不少时间。

现在页面设定的宽度是 1000px, 绝对宽度。之所以不选择相对宽度，主要是考虑到相对宽度下菜单导航条会有折叠，内容格式也会发生变化。车东告诉我还有 5% 的用户还在用窄屏，根据这篇 创新的艺术 所说的，必需要作一点牺牲，很难面面俱到。

单篇归档分成了两栏显示。布局没有以前那么局促了。现在的CSS 估计还有很多 Bug 和结构不清晰的地方，如果有朋友参考的话一定留神。

欢迎针对当前样式提意见。CSS 变化请查看 differ 文件.

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yet another infographic from the New York Times, depicting the amounts of casualties in Iraq over time, cause of death & victim category. this visualization seems unique by its unusual large size, & seemingly inefficient depiction of quantitative information by the size & iconography of numerous avatars.

is it?

see also Iraq casualties infographic & Iraq war fatalities & Baghdad versus San Francisco & casualties as candy & How 9/11 changed America & conspicuous casualties.

[link: nytimes.com|via folksonomy.com]

a set of long exposures that were taken while playing video war games of the 80's, created by Atari, Centuri & Taito. the photographs were shot from video game screens while playing the games. by recording each second of an entire game on 1 frame of film, captured complex patterns were captured not normally seen by the naked eye.

[link: rosemariefiore.com]

A couple quick hits coming this week for the thousands of you (yes, already thousands) using our free StandardStats service to measure traffic to your blog and/or web site.

• You may now ignore yourself. Not in a selfless, there's-no-"I"-in-"feed" kind of way. No, in the far more vital, omit-your-visits-from-your-stats way. Starting today, you may now exclude your visits to your own site from our StandardStats reporting; just check the "Exclude my own visits" checkbox when setting up site statistics in your FeedBurner account. Visits to your site with browser you are using when you check that box won't count toward any StandardStats site traffic.
• Witness (outgoing link) history as it happens. Starting in the next day or so, you will see site traffic from outgoing links accumulate over time.
• Enjoy cleaner pagination on traffic screens. Don't everybody shout "Woohoo! Better paging!" all at once. The recent traffic screens were getting hard to read for folks with lots of traffic; this update should make things much nicer.

We have a bunch of fun tools for content metrics coming in the next few months, and we're very excited about how all this is coming together. We'll keep rolling things out as they become available.

More to come.