David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

I am working on migrating to Wordpress. Everything (soon) will simply be at http://whatisnoise.com
It’s not that I specifically dislike Blogger, but I just feel that there’s more I can do with Wordpress. I am worried that running it on my own server (a dreamhost server) might not do so well in case it gets slammed by Digg some day, but I’ll see if I can install Squid/Varnish somehow on the Dreamhost server.

So not only will I be blogging better, but I will have a better looking and acting page. Woot.

Tags: blogger, dave fisher, David Fisher, migration, moving, squid, tibbon, varnish, whatisnoise

At one of the parties surrounding VON/Podcamp, I met Jeff O’Hara. He was carrying around a Nikon D40, and I’m always interested to talk to other Nikon guys to see what glass they have in their bag (and by that I mean lenses). I was tired of shooting, and he didn’t have anything good on him (I think just a kit lens) so I let him borrow my 18-200 VR Nikkor lens.

So he goes off to shoot better photos with it than I could. Me knowing the lens, and also having a camera that costs nearly 4x as much didn’t help me when it came down to skills and having an eye for it.

His photos from Podcamp are pretty good, but also he’s got all of this other photos which are simply great. He got a almost decent one of me even (and a somewhat funny one), and a really funny one of Julia Roy (ok two).

His other photos however are simply great. He’s got a few that I really really like from around what I guess is his home. His ones of flowers rock.

Tags: d40, dave fisher, David Fisher, jeff o'hara, julia roy, photography, podcamp, tibbon, zemote

TechCrunch is throwing at party in Boston! If you don’t already have a ticket, it doesn’t matter where it is since its well sold out but it’s going to be a great time. I’m debating taking my camera there. It’s a great camera and I can have the chance at the best photos there… but it’s huge and awkward. Oh, how I wish I had a Leica M8. There’s also an afterparty which should be fun and I’m looking forward to.

Now I need to go home soon and get myself pimped out to party

Tags: afterparty, dave fisher, David Fisher, party, techcrunch, tibbon

I don’t mind people following me on Twitter, that’s fine and all. However sometimes you end up seeing people that add you and it’s obvious that they don’t actually have that many friend but are just adding the entire network. I wish that you could easily see how many of your friend have that person following them too (or if any of your people are following them more importantly).

I’ve had a few people follow me that had over or nearly 2,000 people they were following, but only a hundred or so followers. I guess it’s one way to build and audience, because you assume that a certain percentage of the people that you follow will follow you. It’s a numbers game.

The downside is when you see some of the people not even doing the “social media” thing well, but just obviously pushing a product down people’s throats. I’m 110% fine for using Twitter to spread the word on things, but there’s a reason I don’t watch TV and it’s I don’t like commercials.

Oh well. At least for each of them that follow me… my audience goes up

Tags: dave fisher, David Fisher, spam, tibbon

I signed up for Twitter some time ago, but didn’t start using it for anything asides from a little widget here on my blog (which is no longer there) for the longest time. Until Podcamp Boston that is.

Now I’m trying to use twitter a lot, and honestly at least once a day there’s a problem with it. Overload errors, connection errors, website errors, etc. Twitter needs to get it together or someone else is going to come in and take the cake.

Dear Twitter,

I totally understand that you are running a massive service that has a ton of database hits, reads, writes and calculations a minute. It’s quite an impressive task that you’ve achieved so far. We all want to keep using it and keep the twitter love going. But please, get the server stuff together. If Twitter was working with the stability of Slashdot, then I wouldn’t mind if an ad popped up on occasion, or if there was a banner or some adwords on the site. You’ve gotta pay the bills, and I get that. I just want a service that works pretty much all of the time.

So please, please, buy more servers (or EC2 instances). Roll out on some of those mega EC2 instances. Do whatever is needed. Write the code in Assembly instead of Ruby. Anything! Just make it more stable. I totally appreciate everything done so far, but its’ all gone if it can’t keep scaling. I’d help, but I can’t write more than a Hello World program in any language (but for those I rock!). I’ll give you $5 and a cookie?

Thanks,

David Fisher, aka Tibbon

Tags: broken, communication, dave fisher, David Fisher, help, not ready, not working, scaling, tibbon