Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
27 Apr 2005…I join Dave Winer in putting my hand up for a review copy of iCon. [here]
In: smp
30 Mar 2005If you are a Performance and Measurement geek like I am, this looks to be a new and possibly interesting organization — Apdex
Scott Haugdahl of WildPackets gives us his thoughts about it. [WildPackets is one of the charter members of Apdex]
Pete Sevcik is interviewed about it here. Peter’s paper is published in the Business Communication [...]
In: smp
24 Mar 2005Stephen O’Grady describes “continuous partial attention” in this post. He notes Scoble’s decision to retire the link blog and try and devote more time to his life.
How much is too much? That is a question we all fight with daily. I currently have a half-finished Zen book, Beyond Bullets, and a long article out of [...]
In: RANTING
23 Mar 2005Via AdRants
Either a joke or a simple error, Amazon has listed a Viewsonic monitor as a computer having a 10GB chip, 2,000 DIMM, a 30,000 GB hard drive and weighing 14 hundredths-pounds. All for $2,312.95. Certainly, there will be computers that powerful someday soon but not right now. One reviewer raved about the “product,” writing, [...]
In: smp
1 Mar 2005I am glad to see the 4th Estate re-invigorated and challenged to go get the story again. Since the end of the Nixon debacle, the media has been slowly sliding into the lazy habits of the well-fed and pampered. Now that the barbarians are pounding at the gates (an analogy I will not use again), [...]
In: Life
18 Feb 2005As a consumer of SSRIs [here], this piece of news REALLY concerns me.
Antidepressants increase risk of suicidal behaviour: study
Suicide, depression, and antidepressants
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and suicide in adults: meta-analysis of drug company data from placebo controlled, randomised controlled trials submitted to the MHRA’s safety review
Suicidal Behaviour Caused by Antidepressants “Cannot Be Ruled Out”
Thanks [...]
eBay woke up. What a concept! A real person answering your e-mails. Now, of course, the downside of this is that the e-mails will be answered in Bangalore and Mumbai, and will still be from controlled response scripts.
But still, it’s somewhat of a concession from eBay that they stumbled a bit…and that the response to [...]
In: smp
2 Feb 2005Just before bed, I had to add this.
Obviously, this person has not seen this.
Would love to see his updated review!
In: smp
2 Feb 2005Read this. You will understand.
I have been lucky to be on the good side of performance reviews for most of my career. And, when I don’t have to deal with them every single hour of every single day, I lavish instense attention on those customers that I speak with, write to, and meet with. I [...]
In: smp
29 Jan 2005Just read an article in the dead-tree version of the Web Host Industry Review on Monitoring Performance. Interesting quotes in the article on why it is good for setting SLAs. My former employer is also mentioned.
Fair enough. But, SLAs are only one aspect. How do these solutions help you improve and more effectively manage your [...]