Google Analytics Comes to Newsvine

Well, I thought of groups too -- but then, we don't have a way to paste the code in for our groups.

I suspect that this is a pilot program, and when we see how that works, we'll get more ways to use it.

With that said, this was apparently "quietly" rolled out -- but I figured as it was publicly available (wasn't referred to as a public/private beta, or anything like that) it was safe to write about it. I figured someone would do it if I didn't, and -- finding out about this is a bit like being handed Pandora's Box. I couldn't resist.

Though, as always -- the more they know about how we like these features, the better.

Odd -- this posted to some groups that I'm pretty certain I didn't check. (And didn't post to a group that I'm pretty certain I did check.) If it winds up in a group and does not belong there -- delete away.

I'll see if it corrects itself, if not -- I'll edit and republish to the correct groups.

how about six by seven...

He said he's a huge geek, not a huge abacus.

But, he's definitely a huge geek.

From wikipedia:

At the end of the first radio series, the television series, and the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the second of the five-book 'trilogy', Arthur Dent — as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question — attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?" Arthur then remarks, "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe." The generation of this question is actually impossible with a single, standard set of Scrabble letters. Such a set only has two Ys; but the set shown in the TV series, and referred to in the books, has clearly been handmade from memory, so the question buried within Arthur's brainwaves may have influenced him in creating it. In the original radio version of the story, however, it is made clear that Arthur has been travelling all along with a pocket Scrabble set from Earth.

"Six by nine. Forty-two."

"That's it. That's all there is."

The explanation is that the program (Earth) would have run correctly if not for the interference of events such as the crash landing of the Golgafrinchans causing them to replace the original inhabitants. These important modifications introduced error into the program and caused it to discover the wrong question; the question in Arthur's mind has been the wrong question all along.
It was later pointed out by readers that 6 × 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10, which gives an answer of 54. Douglas Adams later averred that he was not aware of this at the time, and repeatedly dismissed this as an irrelevant concoction, saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13 [...] I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."