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That's not OK. What Kathy is putting up with is totally unacceptable, and I'm frankly sickened at what she has had to go through. </p><p> It is totally unacceptable to make threats to people. Period. Kathy, you have my support. I pray that these threats about you are a bunch of hot air and that you and your family get through this as quickly as possibly, and that this serves as an important lesson to folks who write online to give a second thought before they hit that 'publish' button. </p><p> I got a call from Dan Fost at the SF Chronicle yesterday as he was <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/MNGT3OTVAO1.DTL&hw=sierra&sn=001&sc=1000">writing a story</a> about the 'bigger picture' around the story, and we had a good 30 minute discussion about the issues as I see them. Dan wrote his story in <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/MNGT3OTVAO1.DTL&hw=sierra&sn=001&sc=1000">today's Chronicle</a>. We talked a lot about online anonymity and accountability, which I think are two important issues that have contributed to this story - both in allowing the cowardice to threaten Kathy anonymously, and in the explanations and apologies from a number of the people involved, even peripherally. We also talked about the technology of blogging and the internet itself, and whether the technology was creating new issues and threats. I don't think the technology is creating new threats, but I do think that as we increase the level of accountability (as blogs have done over usenet and chat rooms), we also make the system more self-correcting. </p><p> I hope they catch whoever did this, and they punish the person appropriately. If it were my family that was receiving death threats, I'd probably react the same way Kathy has. My thoughts are with her. </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/accountability" rel="tag">accountability</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/deaththreats" rel="tag">deaththreats</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/kathysierra" rel="tag">kathysierra</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/anonymity" rel="tag">anonymity</a></p> <div class="posted"> Posted by dsifry at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2007/03/thoughts_on_bad.html">12:35 PM</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=490" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (1)</a> | <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sifry.com%2Falerts%2Farchives%2F2007%2F03%2Fthoughts_on_bad.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </div> </div> <h2 class="date">March 27, 2007</h2> <div class="blogbody"> <a name="000489"></a> <h3 class="title">GrabPERF is looking for measurement locations</h3> <p> Steven Pierzchala, who runs the GrabPERF project (full disclosure: Technorati owns the site) is looking for more measurement locations. For those of you who don't know about GrabPERF, it is a free resource for performance monitoring - and Steven offers it for free, in public, to anyone. He's looking for people or organizations that have a Linux box with a static IP address to act as data collection agents. You really can be anywhere around the worl, and the processes run in the background, quietly testing the locations that GrabPERF tracks in the background. It shouldn't be a significant resource hog. </p><p> I think that having resources like this (think of it as an Alexa for website performance, just more accurate) is a really important thing to continue to support. </p><p> Here's some interesting data you can get at GrabPERF:</p><p>Comparitive Blog/Tag Search Performance over a week:</p> </p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://grabperf.org/homepage.php?page=compare&test=2&tests%5B%5D=212&tests%5B%5D=39&tests%5B%5D=25&tests%5B%5D=68&tests%5B%5D=13"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://grabperf.org/_graphs/graph_hourly_multi_test-geomean.php?msmts=2,13,25,39,68,212&days=7" height="400" width="800"> </a> </p> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://crazycanuck.org/2007/03/27/grabperf-agent-need-more-locations/">Go help out Steven!</a></p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/grabPERF" rel="tag">grabPERF</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/measurement" rel="tag">measurement</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/free" rel="tag">free</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/utility" rel="tag">utility</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/webperformance" rel="tag">webperformance</a></p> <div class="posted"> Posted by dsifry at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2007/03/grabperf_is_loo.html">12:25 PM</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=489" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (1)</a> | <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sifry.com%2Falerts%2Farchives%2F2007%2F03%2Fgrabperf_is_loo.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </div> </div> <h2 class="date">March 26, 2007</h2> <div class="blogbody"> <a name="000488"></a> <h3 class="title">Photowalking 8 (Half Moon Bay) pictures are up</h3> <p> I spent Sunday morning with <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/">Robert Scoble</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://thomashawk.com/">Thomas Hawk</a>, and about 20 other photographers down in Half Moon Bay. It was a great time! Robert rented <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/fogview/435686967/">a massive 600mm f4 lens</a>, and let us all use it, while he was taking video the whole time. At first, that monster was a bit overwhelming, and I withdrew, but I later got some nice shots with it (my favorites are "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435413723/in/set-72157600028702932/">Fishing under the trees</a>" and "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435412920/in/set-72157600028702932/">Cutting the Surf 2</a>") but I also found some lovely shots in the details, taking pictures of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435408161/in/set-72157600028702932/">dew on the flowers</a> at the beach, and I really loved making some abstracts of the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435401078/in/set-72157600028702932/">sand and its patterns</a>. Here's a few shots below. <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/sets/72157600028702932/">Pop on over to the set at Flickr</a> to see them all... </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435406526/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/435406526_a5050ab8e6.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Ice Plants in Dew 10 - 6804.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435399093/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/435399093_76a5011788.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Before Sunrise - 6583.jpg"/></a> </p><p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435413266/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/435413266_d7d0c8f4aa.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Freedom! - 6990.jpg"/></a> </p><p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/435400119/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/435400119_b681527a3c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Scoble and Hawk walking the beasts - 6654.jpg"/></a> </p> <p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/halfmoonbay" rel="tag">halfmoonbay</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/hawk" rel="tag">hawk</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/photography" rel="tag">photography</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/photowalk" rel="tag">photowalk</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/photowalking" rel="tag">photowalking</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/photowalking8" rel="tag">photowalking8</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.technorati.com/tag/scoble" rel="tag">scoble</a></p> <div class="posted"> Posted by dsifry at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2007/03/photowalking_8.html">11:37 PM</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=488" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); return false">Comments (2)</a> | <script src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754js_/http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sifry.com%2Falerts%2Farchives%2F2007%2F03%2Fphotowalking_8.html?sub=nscosmos" rel="linkcount">View blog reactions</a> </div> </div>  <h2 class="date">March 23, 2007</h2> <div class="blogbody"> <a name="000487"></a> <h3 class="title">Mel's Diner</h3> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/432098928/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754im_/http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/432098928_62beacaccb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"/></a> <br/> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/432098928/">mels diner-6029.jpg</a> <br/> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.flickr.com/people/dsifry/">David Sifry</a>. </span> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="posted"> Posted by dsifry at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2007/03/mels_diner.html">11:14 PM</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090712225754/http://www.sifry.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=487" onclick="OpenComments(this.href); 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