So, this site uses advanced client side tech to log information about your activity and site performance to the logfiles -- things like start and end mouse positions, time of page in focus, render time, image load time, etc. It does this for the current page by appending the information to the next page request. For the last couple months, I've been sending traffic to a variety of sites with this information in the URL string. As much as I enjoyed sending wacky url information out of this site, I found that it broke certain server responses. A little more javascript magic and the information is only sent when additional requests are made to this server. I've open sourced the project and the next release is coming soon. Check out the updated documentation at Lucidity.sourceforge.net.
5/18/2001 10:42:30 PM



The WWW10 proceedings are up.
My picks at first glance:
Support concepts for Web navigation: a cognitive engineering approach  [PDF]
- Mark A. Neerincx, Jasper Lindenberg, Steven Pemberton
Adaptive Push-Pull: Disseminating Dynamic Web Data  [PDF]
- Pavan Deolasee, Amol Katkar, Ankur Panchbudhe, Krithi Ramamritham, Prashant Shenoy
Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited  [PDF]
- Lev Finkelstein, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yossi Matias, Ehud Rivlin, Zach Solan, Gadi Wolfman, Eytan Ruppin
Finding Authorities and Hubs From Link Structures on the World Wide Web  [PDF]
- Allan Borodin, Gareth O. Roberts, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Panayiotis Tsaparas
Mining Web Logs to Improve Website Organization  [PDF]
- Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yinghui Yang
5/16/2001 2:43:58 AM



I'm getting back to working on my browser event logging system and have put up some local docs. In addition to standard browser configuration values, it logs page render time, user scroll depth, user mouse miles, and image load time.
5/13/2001 5:17:25 PM



AliceAIML. In adittion to a bunch of client code, enabling a avatarized personal desktop agent, in web deployment it has the ability to load data in on the fly, allowing interaction with search engines, dbs, app servers, etc. Another unique feature is for a servlet Alice version, information can be loaded into server ram and be available to all participants.

They're doing some neat stuff too -- check out the AIML visualizations. In neural network models, particularly those with strong feedback loops, some interesting data has been gathered by analysing the graph structure of the node weights. The AIML case is much easier to understand, the atomic units being much larger.
9:07:36 AM