Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
The Network World article on telecommuting appears to be getting a lot of play this morning on the RSS feeds.
I agree with Daemon at the Web Worker Daily: Yeah, and your point?
I learned a long time ago that I would NEVER be happy as a do-nothing management hack (whoops! did I say that out loud?). [...]
Yesterday, I read Anne Zelenka’s post on ROWE at Best Buy. I was heartened to see that this idea was getting mentioned again, and that it was getting front-page interest from Big Media.
On a lark, I forwarded the post to my director and VP. Their responses frightened me. They were written in management-ese, and indicated [...]
This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
Well, I just heard that everyone’s favourite corporate rock and greed group is returning to Boston.
That’s right: The Rolling Stones.
They announced that there are student discounts available. Perhaps they should start adding senior’s discounts as well.
Technorati Tags: Rolling+Stones, Rock, Greed, Boston, AARP, Seniors
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: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: GrabPERF
13 Feb 2006Time for me to launch the GrabPERF Quarterly Pledge Drive.
This is the part I hate. As I have noted in the past, I can’t charge for GrabPERF in any sort of traditional business sense. But I am also not doing this for a pat on the back.
As always, any donation, no matter how small, is [...]
This makes me sad.
A South Caroline businessman is making an attempt to purchase the Hudson’s Bay Company. [here]
The company, lovingly referred to as the Bay, was incorporated in 1670 and once owned more real estate in North America, in fact “all the land in the Hudson Bay watershed – a mass that amounts to about [...]
In: smp
23 Sep 2005If you or your company would like to donate to GrabPERF, here is what we need!
Olympics and the Concept of “Live” TV
In: Commentary| RANTING
10 Aug 2008Robert Scoble has launched a thread over on FriendFeed [here] discussing the NBC Olympics broadcast schedule and how the reality of the Internet and Social Media is changing how things are broadcast.
People are recommending the CBC feed. I would likely say the people in the UK would recommend the BBC feed. But I can tell [...]