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Rapid research, design, and development to delivery is part faith, opportunity, and appreciation of a quantum reality.\r\nAnon<\/blockquote>\r\nThe process was organic, with continuous feedback and reflections, on the client needs and compromises.\u00a0 Technologies are continually changing, and the cloud\u00a0[footnote]https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_computing[\/footnote] services are a tempting option. In the short term, a commercial e-publishing service may provide an e-textbook product without the administrative and IT challenges in a post-secondary education institution. However, cloud services cannot guarantee long term operation in a capitalist environment.\r\n

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.\r\n- Sir Charles Dilke<\/span> 1891[footnote]Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. (2012, July 19). [Academic]. Retrieved December 18, 2015, from http:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/depts\/maths\/histstat\/lies.htm[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nReality depends on what you choose to measure, as paraphrased from Niels Bohr, Copenhagen interpretation[footnote]Copenhagen interpretation https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Copenhagen_interpretation[\/footnote]<\/blockquote>\r\nCollecting statistics from Internet activity can be challenging due to the difficulty of filtering out the machine activity, such as a web crawler, from legitimate human users. In addition, the statistical WordPress plugin had bugs that interfered with the quality of the data collection.\r\n\r\nA Wordpress Slimstat plugin was employed to gather statistics on the activities of the website deploying the multi-format open source e-textbook -\u00a0Creative Clinical Teaching In The Health Professions<\/em><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 In November of 2015, there were 430 file downloads by unique users.\u00a0While the quantity of downloads or page access counts cannot determine learning achievements, it is an indicator of level of engagement. Since deployment of Pressbooks on 2015-08-14, the traffic sources have grown from national locations to Australia, Chile, India, Norway, and beyond.\r\n\r\n\"Slimstat<\/a>\r\nFigure 5.1<\/em> Wordpress Slimstat plugin geolocation by country for visitors (2017-05-05).\r\n\r\nSlimstat shortcodes can be challenging to incorporate in Pressbooks. In particular graphic based shortcodes such as the figure 5.1 geolocation world map can produce a white space on a webpage. However, the current solution for Slimstat shortcode in Pressbooks is to use a Preformatted style, as dynamically produced on this sites statistics page<\/a>. It is noteworthy that a city geolocation database setting in Slimstat maps a visitor's nearest city location in the form of a black dot (e.g. sites statistics page<\/a>).\r\n

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