Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
22 Aug 2007My system has a daily job to collect and aggregate the IP Blocks distributed by the five registrars into a single database, and then provide high-level WHOIS information for this data. If you want to try this yourself, the interface here.
On an extremely irregular basis, I aggregate the statistics from this data, and present it [...]
A few years ago, I wrote an article ablout how to best set up Web server cache-control messages to take advantage of this free form of content distribution. Until now, it has only existed as a PDF file.
Last night, I sent a copy to Kevin Burton of TailRank in response to some of his recent [...]
In: RANTING
12 Jul 2005Chuck Cadman, a man and a politician I highly respected, passed away Saturday. [here]
Chuck was a man who was moved into action by a single, life-changing event: the murder of his son in a random attack by a group of boys in 1992. Propelled onto the national stage, Chuck drove his agenda, and his passion, [...]
In: smp
28 Jun 2005Geek News Central is reporting that their server is getting crushed with all the new iTunes 4.9 users. You had to know this would happen. People have heard the buzz and want to hear what it’s all about.
From a Web performance perspective, podcasts are hellish: large, uncompressible binary files. At least they are able to [...]
In: smp
17 May 2005Johnnie Moore posts a great quote from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, made in an interview with Wired.
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until [...]
In: smp
21 Apr 2005The folks at NYU Secure Computing Services have developed a really cool open-source content distribution network (CDN) called CORAL.
This looks as though it has potential for us low-bandwidth hosters who get blasted when our content gets Scobelized or Slashdotted.
Via Jon Udell.
I found a great example of a Heavy-Tailed Frequency distribution in my performance data today.
This clearly shows how data in the wild can be distributed in a non-normal fashion. In this case, there is a very heavy weight on the end of the tail, not simply a few straggling outliers.
It has become very unusual to [...]
In: GrabPERF
20 Dec 2004Ok, in a weird little way, the subtext of the browser wars has started to re-surface in the blogosphere. Everyone is getting into the browser distribution mix.
Including me.
Check out the Browser Percentage Stats for this blog and for the GrabPERF Server.
Thanks to Tim Bray for re-starting this mess.
Embeds, content attribution, and success in the New Media
In: Commentary
12 Aug 2008Jeremiah Owyang has a great think piece on the idea of embedded content. [here]
The piece sums up the foundational idea that has been driving the debate I dropped my self into with regards to the NBC (or any old-tyme media network’s) coverage of the Olympics. The concept of content-management by the leaders online has moved [...]