In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
What is the difference between media? Newpapers, TV, Radio…. they are all now the same thanks to the Internet. Now the people who control the things that we read are ourselves. And granted, the lack of change by many is because of inertia (as Seth Godin blogs about so well here). But what is amazing [...]
For many years, my work has been driven by my knowledge of how classification adds value to information within large organisations. How much more rewarding blogging could become if blogger communities were to become more skilled in this art.
I have started with an analysis of Technorati’s most popular tags, as the first step in project to bring bloggers the benefits of classification systems to make their blogs much more easily findable, as well to make reader searching more meaningful. The new Supertaggers blog aims to work with users to design multidimensional classification systems (also known as ‘multifaceted taxonomies’) without all the painful discipline and top down authoritarianism associated with the field.
The project is dedicated to using …