Piwik have just announced the release of Piwik 3.0 and I was excited to try it out. I've been running Piwik on this site for just over a year. I like Piwik because it allows me to run analytics¹ on this site while respecting users privacy, giving users …

I bank with one of the big four banks in Australia I recently got a call, and it started off

"Hi I'm Taylor¹ I'm calling from {bank_name} and I'd like to talk to you about a letter you received from the bank recently"

I hadn't seen any letter but …

Duck Duck Go have a very compelling argument for why we should use them over say Google or another search engine. Apart from the privacy aspect where they claim they are not tracking us¹. They talk about the "search bubble" it's easy to see, just open up a new …

I once heard Google Analytics described as crack cocaine for marketing folks and webmasters. Now I've never tried crack cocaine, but I have tried Google Analytics and I can see why once you have had it, it's pretty hard to let go.

It gives you a bunch of information, most …

I'm planning on writing a series of posts tagged with "Good bye Google" that will cover my progress over the last few year in leaving the Google eco-system and moving to open source self hosted alternatives.

I wanted to start with this post first though to explain my rational behind …