Fable of the CloudMaster: When My Little Cloud Was Vaporized
Aug/090
[crossposted from uber.la]
I was well on my way to the best day in my life.
Traffic was up. Pages per visitor was a dotted line of fact.
And in the middle of a self-promoting tweet, I must’ve overheated my cloud.
Cause that dip you see, is not from natural causes. It was death by IT.
In the middle of the working day,
My hype out ran my Google Analytics and the gods of DDoS came to play, on me.
Was it too many widgets, one plug-in gone south?
A leak in my computing cycle managment?
What the CloudMaster said, while scratching his head, was…
“We’re working on it.”
@jmacofearth
permalink to uber.la: http://bit.ly/cloudmaster
Note about fables from wikipedia: A fable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, that features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a moral lesson (a “moral”), which may at the end be expressed explicitly in a pithy maxim.
My Azure Credentials Arrived a Bit Ago – I’m On Cloud Blue!
Jun/090
I have no idea what to do with it yet, but my AZURE portal is now open for… business… well… no… for musical diversions? Maybe!
I’m downloading the Azure SDK (I’ll have to run this within my Parallels WIN7 VM machine) and kick the tires. I’ll let you know what I find.
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://cloudclip.net/azure-on
GigaOM’s Pro Analyst Network: I’m IN on the BETA (and maybe you should be too)
Jun/090
GigaOM PRO Analyst Network
So for $80 a year (it is annually, right?) I’m paying to read what Malik Om and his writers come up with for the Cloud and the Structure of all things webby. Seems like a small price to pay. And if I can get them to notice MY writing, perhaps I’ll not have to pay them a year from now, they could pay me.
You gotta stick that BETA on everything these days. Oh, that reminds me… I’m gonna BETA CloudClip! wOOt! My first direct value-received from OM PRO!
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://cloudclip.net/gigaom-pro
GigaOm: What’s Next IN THE CLOUDS (the evolving Structure conference)
Jun/090
[excerpt]
My friend Om Malik and the GigaOm crew have been hard at work on a few things. First, there’s the new GigaOM PRO, a paid offering that’s part analyst firm, part intrepid reporter, and part real-world clue-check. This is a good thing.
Done wrong, analyst firms can sometimes look like the protection rackets of the attention economy — a pay-to-play pact. This is a trap many traditional firms fall into; it’s inevitable that the biggest paying customers expect more love.
But a blog as an analyst firm has built-in honesty. The GigaOm crew has a pedigree of reporting that goes back to TV and print journalism, and anyone who reads Om knows he’s unflinchingly honest, even when that means breaking some glass. So GigaOm Pro looks like a refreshing change.
Read the entire post: Jun 2, 2009 GigaOm Structure: What’s next in clouds by Alistair Croll
[comment: i concur with Alistair's opinion of Om and his Structure conference. I don't have the budget to be a GigaOm Pro, but if I did I would. update: it costs $80! so I actually DO have the budget for it.]
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://cloudclip.net/gigaom-goespro
