The Best Day to Blog Experiment - Day 4

If you missed the past three days, welcome to The Best Day to Blog Experiment; you are now a participant.  If you are a returning reader, thanks for your participation and for the first time readers, I’ve come across many stories about when is the best day/time to get the most readership exposure from a blog post and I’m doing my own little brief, non-scientific experiment.  The idea was to blog everyday this week, track the results and report back.  Mahalo for becoming a statistic, and I mean that in the most gracious way.  This is Day 4 of the...

Now ReTweet After Me! Ah, Never Mind.

There is some interesting research over on Sysomos Inc. which indicates that 71% of twitter messages get no reaction at all, like a reply or retweet, 85% get one @reply and 92% of the actual retweets happen within the first hour.  Over the last two months, they examined 1.2 Billion tweets and found that 29% beget a reaction and only 6% were retweets.  Heck, even my tweet about the story only got 1 click according to http://j.mp:   While many will take this as and argue that twitter is useless, but Tom Webster at BrandSavant has a different take in this...

F5 Web Media On-Demand

We’ve had some exciting announcements of late, like the BIG-IP Edge Gateway and the BIG-IP LTM VE, and lots of great content has been developed to highlight the benefits of these solutions.   It’s been a while since I’ve updated you about our Social Media sites and the various ways we deliver F5 content.   More than a year ago, we started to follow and contribute text, audio and video to the multitude of public Social Media outlets.  DevCentral has always been our social, community driven site, well before some of these newer social networks but we also recognized the need to...

The State of My Blog Address

Readers, distinguished bloggers, various feeds - A year ago this week, I crossed over into double-digit blog entries (a whopping 10 stories at the time but a relative blog newcomer) and was wondering what magical rant would make this Blog Go to Eleven.  Fidgeting with the keyboard and watching the blinking curser as nothing came to mind, I decided to dedicate January 30th as ‘Blog About Your Blog Day.’   The day that all bloggers would share stories, tips and other musings about their own blog.  Since I don’t see it as a #trendingtopic on Twitter, it might not have stuck. ...

Post-Blog Report: 26 Short Topics about Security

Aloha and welcome to the post-blog report.  Over the last 5 months, I’ve been writing a blog series called, 26 Short Topics about Security and wanted to share some observations.  First, I went about this since there are so many IT challenges when it comes to security and it’s virtually impossible to cover them all.  Plus, I’m always looking for interesting stats and stories pertaining to security and thought I’d gather them up in one place.  It’s sort of a 2009 ‘Security Greatest Hits’ (or Misses, if you’re a Devo fan).  If you are a blogger and sometimes...

You’ve Taken That Out of Context

Hello and Welcome to the new hit Game Show: You’ve Taken that Out of Context!  Hilarity ensues in this action packed half-hour when contestants try to deliver the appropriate resources to end users depending on several factors and circumstances.  So let’s get right to it: Our first contestant is Danny, an IT Director from Boston and he’s getting his first request…..OK, user is coming from a home computer, without a certificate, from a broadband connection and is a partner – what are you going to give them Danny?  Wow, Excellent!  You’ve provided a simple web application, delivered through a reverse...

IPv6 and the End of the World

There’s always been a certain amount of conspiracy theories when security type events happen or instances where there is secrecy. There are those who don’t buy the ‘reported’ reason a security event (like a breach) occurred, those who claim to have inside information or just those who see a story and draw their own conclusions. The following is my take (Satire Alert) on Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol v6 and the end of the world as we know it. That can affect our security, right?!? Recently there have been more than the usual number of articles about IPv6 and the need to...

Social Media – Friend or Foe

Social Networks are now part of our society for better or worse.  It has allowed us to both connect with current friends and find pals from the past; it offers businesses another outlet for marketing and sales; it allows us to collaborate, discuss and converse on any topic imaginable.  And due to it’s popularity, it also gives thieves and other criminal types an inroad to deliver malware, steal identities, spam, stalk, and many other nasty things to expose personal and corporate information.  Since so many people are on a single platform, where trust is somewhat inherent, it’s much easier to...