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T-Mobile Dash 3G: Negative Final Impressions
In: Commentary| GSM| Mobile| RANTING
27 Aug 2009When it comes to the T-Mobile Dash 3G, I have some simple advice.
Don’t.
The longer I have this phone, the more of a clunker it becomes. My list of complaints include:
In the last 24 hours, the battery has started to drain for no apparent reason – and yes, WiFi, Bluetooth, and background apps are all off. [...]
Effective Web Performance: An Introduction and A Manifesto
In: Blogging| Browsers| Commentary| Effective Web Performance| Internet| Technology| The Web| Web Performance| Web analytics| WebPerformance.Org| analytics
19 Aug 2009Every so often, you wake up and realize that the world has changed around you. Or, to say it better, your view of the world has changed so profoundly, but also so subtly and slowly that it is imperceptible unless you take the time to look back at where you came from.
Six years ago, if [...]
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The Loss of Blogging Voice, or Why I removed the Ads from my Blog
In: Blogging| Commentary| The Web| Web analytics| advertising| analytics| branding| reputation| social media
11 Aug 2009I have had advertising on my blog for as long as I can remember. Except for the period of time when I hosted the site at Wordpress.com, I have always had AdSense, Chitika, or some other ad services content being contextually presented to my visitors.
Frankly, I found having ads up on my site extremely hypocritical, [...]
Modern Business and the Culture of Assurance
In: Commentary| business
19 Mar 2009I often wonder how much business is lost but the levels of assurance that exist within modern companies.
As information passes through and upward through a company, it is filtered, shaped, refined down to the one salient decision point that all the executives can then discuss. The concern that I have is whether the devolution of [...]
A Brand is not a Conversation
In: Commentary| advertising| authority| branding| reputation
12 Jan 2009Brand and Branding are tossed about as sterile concepts that people want to dissect on a repeated basis, as if a deeper understanding of the words themselves will allow a view into the soul of a people.
When I step back and examine these concepts, free of involvement in the world of Brand creation and propagandization, [...]
Methodology Before Measurement
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Work| business
5 Jan 2009Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
The greatest challenge facing companies today is not finding ways to measure performance. The key issue is one of understanding what should be measured and validating that there is agreement on what the purpose of the measurement is.
Organizations are complex. And with complexity arises [...]
Why Terms Matter: Consultant v. SME v. Evangelist
In: Commentary| Work| social media
26 Nov 2008The term consultant is bandied about so much in this new economy that it has lost it’s meaning. Wikipedia defines a consultant as
A consultant (from the Latin consultare means “to discuss” from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise….
A consultant [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis: Page Views by Day of Week, or When to Post
In: Blogging| Commentary
16 Sep 2008Since I started self-hosting this blog again on August 6 2008, I have been trying to find more ways to pull traffic toward the content that I put up. Like all bloggers, I feel that I have important things to say (at least in the area of Web performance), and ideas that should be read [...]
Blog Statistics Analysis – What do your visitors actually read?
In: Blogging| Commentary
14 Sep 2008Steven Hodson of WinExtra posted a screenshot of his personal Wordpress stats for the last three years last night. I then posted my stats for a similar period of time, and Steven shot back with some question about traffic, and the ebbs and flows of readers.
Being the stats nut that I am, I went and [...]
The Rocky Mountain Parks: A Privilege Unappreciated
In: Canada| Commentary| Life
29 Sep 2009Ken Burns’ tale of the US National Parks reminds me of a heritage that I have, for most of my life, taken for granted. It was in another country, but it is a heritage that I have assumed will always be there.
I grew up amongst the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Dead center amongst them you [...]