I’m not the most creative person in the world, but every once in awhile I try. We were carving pumpkins for family night on Monday and I was trying to think of something besides the regular old triangle-nose-smiley-face-with-two-teeth pumpkin. Alison suggested I do the cube. She was referring to the weighted companion cube from a game called Portal in which you weave your way through levels of physics puzzles with your portal gun and anything [...]

The Back of the Napkin has been on my to buy/read list for while now.  The idea is that problems can be solved (and ideas can be sold) with simple pictures to illustrate. The author just won a contest for best presentation.  Here’s the presentation and it happens to explain the healthcare problems that are all the rage today with amazing simplicity and clarity. So if you’re like me, and you didn’t know anything about [...]

Call me a sellout (I’m ashamed already), but I have it on pretty good authority that in order to be a good blogger, you need to be on Twitter. Now that I’m taking this blogging thing a little more seriously (on the Omniture Blog), I went ahead and made an account. The straight facts? It is a pretty good way to spread the word to a crowd of people with a certain interest, though it [...]

My wife bought me a bunch of Foo Fighter’s CDs for my birthday.  When I get CD’s I promptly rip them to mp3 and throw them in a box, never to see them again, but for some reason I still would rather have the actual CD instead of buying it on iTunes.  Anyway, this one threw me for a loop when I popped it in: Obviously it’s not a Michael Bolton CD, so I chose [...]

And the last piece that I was waiting for has fallen into place.  I’m now officially the newest member of the Omniture Blogging team.  Find my analytics related posts at http://blogs.omniture.com/author/brobison/.