It never fails - get a really good StumbleUpon spike in traffic going and the server goes tits up. Oh well at least I’ve been moved over to the hosting company’s new clustered server setup that is designed for that sorta thing so it shouldn’t <fingers crossed> happen again. In the meantime here’s a few things that caught my eye today in today’s FriendFeed pipeline.

Blaine Cook Writes First Blog Post Since Twitter… About Scaling :: Why does everything suck? - a good post by Hank that follows up on a few of the discussions that have been floating around since Blaine left Twitter.

Blogging Yields Fruit (Like An Internship) :: Unique-Frequency - it is always nice to see good things happen to good people as a result of their blogging. Congradulations Daryl.

FreshAIRApps: A Premier Adobe AIR App Directory :: ReadWriteWeb - some information about a new directory for Adobe AIR applications. Maybe something some folks might want to bookmark in fashion or another.

Never mind the thousands dead, will China quake delay iPhone shipments? :: Valleywag - while the post might be in the blog’s usual sarcastic tone it does point out how shallow the tech world can be sometimes.

Avoid getting taken Hostage by your Developers :: The Marketing Technology Blog - Douglas has some excellent advise to cover your ass when dealing with web developers that you don’t know from Adam.

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