I want to pass along Scott Leslie's EdTechPost review and recommendation about StatCounter, a free web-based statistics tracker for website. I've started using StatCounter with this EduResources Weblog and found it extremely useful. The script code is easy to install in a weblog and StatCounter is free of pop-ups. In the past I've used commercial tools for tracking hits on my web sites, but StatCounter does all I need now and does it efficiently.

Stephen Downes provides a clear and comprehensive statment about the Blackboard LMS patent, reactions to the patent claim, and the implications the BB patent has for open source efforts. This is an important article to read and reference.