If you a manage a web site and it crashes you think about all the users hitting your site at that time and getting the same error message that you just saw when you discovered it had crashed. If you look at it from the user perspective, you immediately go [...]

Moneyball is a great movie. Finally watched it last night. It reminds of some very simple logic. Find the number that best dictates your success. Measure everything about that number. Determine which factors move that number in a positive direction. Measure everything about those factors. Use the most efficient way [...]

I bought my wife a Kindle Fire for Christmas. I’m impressed and she loves it (and the price isn’t bad either). I’ve read a lot of hype that says that Amazon is pushing the device to make more sales, but I really believe that is a pure content device. It’s [...]

Most web sites today are ran by a content management system (CMS). A CMS separates content from design and makes it easy to post content to the site without the knowledge of HTML. A CMS can be cheap (open source – free) or expensive ($100,000) plus a year, but what feature of [...]

Where do you get the most out of a conference? Keynotes from the big names? Practical break out sessions with best practices? The showroom floor with vendors? Hallways receive my vote for the best part of a conference (especially those with big leather couches). I’ve been to large conferences with [...]

I spend a lot of time testing web sites and making sure they look right on different platforms, different browsers and just like it’s always been some browsers really make me pull my hair out. Right now, it’s IE 7. Anytime I open up a web site in IE 7 [...]

We’re debuting our online campus at Fellowship Bible Church Sunday morning at 11 a.m. I’ve been working on the launch team on this since around September and will be one of the rotating hosts for the service. Besides the video stream of the service there is also a chat feature to allow [...]

The latest browser usage reports have google’s Chrome browser being used by nearly one out of every 10 users online with Firefox gathering around a 23 percent market share and IE at 57 percent. When I first saw this report I wondered about regional variations in browser usage, but on [...]

As my first post of the new year, here’s my web, technology and communications predictions for 2011 and beyond. Don’t let me forget to check up next year and see how many I’ve gotten right. Social Media Twitter will stagnate and be recognized as a niche product. Twitter’s web traffic [...]

I was an early adopter of digital photography using a Sony digital camera that saved photos to a 3.5″ floppy disk. It had bad color and horrible resolution, but it was fast and allowed me to get photos on the web and TV faster than developing film. Although I’ve pretty [...]