Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
In: Bipolar
13 Nov 2006I have talked in other posts about being an accumulator, driven by the mania to buy things that I have no need for, nor will I ever use. A slight variation of this theme is the need to hoard.
How can accumulation be different from hoarding? It’s simple, it’s not simply the accumulation of things; it’s [...]
In: smp
11 Feb 2005Yahoo Search Blog has a great posting on how the Slurp Bot tries to conserve bandwidth by making use of compression and cache-control headers. [here]
As a Web performance fanatic, it is heartening to see that these folks have taken such care, and put such thought into their indexing crawler. They want it to be accurate, [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]