I read Robert Scoble's post on "noise in the net" with morbid curiousity today. It's a pretty interesting post, really. Seriously.

Oh, the glorious noise! Everyone loves beating me up for causing the noise. No, I am not the cause. I pass it along. You should see my inbound streams. Every second or two a new Twitter is aimed at me. Every few seconds, a new blog post comes into Google Reader. Every few seconds, a new thing on FriendFeed.

Scoble then goes on to give a few ideas on how to get past the noise and make some sense out of it all. The suggestions are OK, but not really great. They're really more thoughtlets than anything useful.

Yesterday we talked about whether Twitter really ever need to be reliable or not ... some said yes, others contend that it's not necessary.

It's been bugging me for awhile that something this popular ... and Twitter is so ... just keels over as often as it does.

In my earlier post I commented on my own little experiment about Web 2.0 infrastructure's ability to handle even modest-interest events.

Well my initial verdict was that most players had fallen flat on their face ... badly.

Now Techcrunch has a post detailing how badly Twitter really did ... and it was apparently abysmal. More detail by Mike Bogle (from the event) here.

I was experimenting around a bit with different ways to track the macworld keynote from my cozy office. I figured this would be good nano-metric on how far we've matured web 2.0 scaling techniques, particularly when focusing on delivering an event experience. This is a perfect example of a specialized community - bigger than some, smaller than many.

Sorry to say that every venue that was directly trying to cover the keynote has to get a mad kitty. I was hoping for better.

Irritated Kitties

Starting with a sort of "irritated kitty" were engadget and gizmodo ... both of their live posts timed out quite a bit at first, then settled down and responded ok, albeit slowly.

Ok, well the broken stuff for today (so far) includes Digg and Yahoo Small Business.