Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Blogging
7 Aug 2008Or should I say, welcome back.
Three years ago when I started blogging on a regular basis, the blog was name The Newest Industry after the Husker Du song of the same name. Then I migrated the content to Wordpress.com, and relinquished hosting it myself.
Well, I have decided to resurrect Newest Industry, but with all the [...]
Through 2007, the number of posts I made per day/week/month decreased steadily. I know post new items 2-3 items a month, or less. After 2 years of steady entries, I just didn’t have anything to add to the conversation.
Having been an A-list groupie for this entire period, I lost touch with the self-perpetuating scene. A [...]
In: GrabPERF
11 Jan 2008I know that I have been bad at blogging news about GrabPERF, but today there is some. In the last two weeks, we have added two measurement locations: Washington DC AOL and Argentina LaNacion.
Thanks to Carson Evans of AOL, and Jose Falvo and Leonardo Lancellotta of LaNacion for helping out with the installation process.
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After a few months using the Microsoft Live Writer, I am giving the Performancing Blogging Extension for Firefox another try. Just seems more natural that since I use Firefox as my daily work platform, I should use it for everything.
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In: Blogging
18 Aug 2006I was considering the amazing popularity of Wordpress (the hosted service as well ad the application), now the agreed upon champ in the blogging world. I was considering this in light of the fact that when I started blogging in the dark ages of 2004, MoveableType and TypePad were the undisputed champs.
When did the shift [...]
In: Blogging
10 Jun 2006Reading anything using a feed reader allows prevents us from discriminating against the content.
Start with an inflammatory statement, then back it up, using the wisdom gleaned from Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. Why do feeds prevent us from initial discrimination? Because we have no point of reference other than the text in front of us, and the [...]
In: Blogging| Technology
7 Feb 2006So today, I re-instated blogging on my own hardware and also migrated my b2evolution articles to Wordpress 2.0.
It was painless.
Five-minute Wordpress install.
Run the b2evolution -> Wordpress import script. [here]
Ummm…that’s it.
I will be tweaking the theme over the next few days until I feel it is more me.
Guess I’m just like Ben Metcalfe.
In: smp
17 Oct 2005I have permanently blacklisted all of people making comments from blogspot.com — it appears that Google’s little nightmare is getting worse.
Thankfully b2evolution makes that easy. I hate to think about what the the other blogging platforms will have to go through to make this happen.
PS: This is in response to Chris Pirillo’s well-timed rant on [...]
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 [...]