I'm generally the last to find things out,

[zianuray]

so I'm sure you already know about LJ tracking stuff now with Omniture and how to opt OUT, right? 

Here's what few details I have.

Comments

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I see where I should be panicing... all that looks like stuff that will be helpful for LJ design. Other than the default panic that happens every time a company tries to track -anything-.

I prefer data-mining, you get much more dirt on users by simply tracking what info is already in the database. The tracking LJ is talking about is gathering user stats which never tracks -by user- so much as it tracks percentages of what the whole user base is doing.

[zianuray.livejournal.com]

Not panicking, just passing it along for anyone who DOES want to opt-out. I don't understand enough about it know when to *worry* so I generally don't.

[eunice-branca.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that so thanks for posting!

decisions, decisions

[marence.livejournal.com]

As a (too busy to keep up with LJ) research student, I applaud the decision to attempt to get good stats. Their methodology and choice of variables (in English, what they choose to keep track of and how) are pretty good, to determine the range of usual LJ user behavior - they'll be able to say things like X% of users go to Google after viewing 80 entries or X% clink on links in entries. The ability to opt out is ethical, but throws off the stats, possibly enough to influence the study. As a scholar, I feel I should stay in, to help the empirical science.
As a long time citizen of the Net as well as these here United States, I'm paranoid and want to opt out.