My son's monkey hanging with Robert @Scoble at the #defrag conference
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About this site
This is an attempt to reboot my personal blogging routine. We’ll see how it goes.
I have been maintaining some sort of personal site online since 1995, initially at http://www.ibm.com/~epc, followed by some now–long–dead Earthlink site, followed by http://epcostello.net/.
I blogged about technology for some time at http://artific.com/202, but that ran off the rails as I realized I was building up the reputation of the LLC I do business under (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not my personal brand) and the personal cost of maintaining the site (read: killing off spam attacks on comments and trackbacks) was killing any pleasure of actually writing.
On my personal site I’ve written or posted over 1500 entries ranging from long discourses about career burnout, history of IBM’s presence on the Internet, pictures of my dogs, etc. Now, while my dogs are incredibly cute, they do not enhance my reputation as a technology consultant. Nor does apparent whining about my time at IBM.
So…this reboot. It’s presently hosted on posterous but I reserve the right to fling it off to some other service at my whim. In fact I’m just going to go ahead and commandeer my tumblr site and echo posts to there as well.
Consulting
Ed Costello was IBM’s original “webmaster”. He created the applications used to run IBM’s corporate web site, www.ibm.com and pioneered various processes and procedures to run a corporate web presence.
With over 15 years’ experience designing, developing, deploying and debugging web technologies, he has a unique perspective on web systems, operations, and problems.
He focuses on web site operations — how to make running a web site routine, even in the face of extraordinary events and activities.
He sucks at design and has no interest or desire in redesigning your web site.
He excels at reviewing sites across a matrix of perspectives:
- Is the content produced by the site’s applications optimized for performance?
- Are there any security exposures on the site?
- Are there ways to optimize the site’s design to maximize technical performance with minimal side–effects on the design?
- What are the routines the site’s support team follows? Can they handle routine events? Can they handle extraordinary events? Can they handle the expected growth of the site or organization?
Ed Costello is available on a limited basis to advise and consult companies and organizations about their web site operations, performance, and strategies. He is also available to advise or mentor technology managers, CTOs and CIOs in the New York City metropolitan area. Rates are negotiable on an hourly, monthly or retention basis.
Consulting is performed through Artific Consulting LLC, a New York State (US) Limited Liability Company.
twitter survey
I put together a simple survey of business users of twitter. It can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=991mlPmQkB8yeHqg0vcDNA_3d_3d
Curious to see what posterous does with this.
