Archive for June, 2008
Outages and the Power of Social Media
Lately, there have been outages for two large sites: Amazon and Facebook. Working for a company that monitors such things made me able to confirm the nature of the outages. But how I became aware of them has had me thinking in new ways for the last few weeks.
I became aware of both of these [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2008 under Web Performance.
Tags: conversation, customers, friendfeed, interaction, performance issues, social media, twitter
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Back in Alberta. Back with my Tribe.
My grandmother died a few months back, and while this was indeed a very sad day for all of us, she left on her own terms, and with her mind intact, facing the next adventure with grace and dignity.
What this sad event did is provide a focus for the entire Pierzchala clan to reconvene for [...]