I'm a technologist & Internet culture researcher studying the spread of information and ideas online. I co-created the Know Your Meme video series & Internet meme database, selected as one of TIME Magazine's Top 50 websites of 2009. I'm also a founding member of the Free Art & Technology Lab (FAT), an open-source research & development group.
In 2007 and 2008 I taught the Internet Famous Class at Parsons, where your grade depends on your online popularity.
Selected press:
NBC,
TIME [2],
NYTimes,
CurrentTV,
Gawker,
BuzzFeed
,
ArtNews
posts tagged 'google'
Update 3/19 9pm: looks like google-analytics.com is back up. See this tip on how to locally cache urchin.js to avoid this in the future.
Noticed Firebug picking up Javascript “urchinTracker is not defined” errors on 6bucksforfree last night ~2am EST but didn’t pay much attention. This morning I’m getting them on every website I load (which certainly says something about the service’s popularity)
Looks like www.google-analytics.com is down, which is the site they suggest everyone use for the urchin.js script.
On google.com/analytics they reference urchin.js at https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js, which appears to be up. What gives, Google? Forget to renew the domain again ?