No, I'm not talking about Iraqi resistence fighters. I'm talking about blogging coming to AOL users.

If nothing else, blogsphere will be so flooded that the closet-elitists who still insist on blogging about blogging rather than actually blogging will look like the elitists that they are. Bloggers have always talked about publishing for the people. Well, the people will be publishing, and chaos will reign. So let's sit back, grab a cold one, and watch 'em come.

"the very nature of ordinary people consists entirely of their perpetual and unchangeable ordinariness or, better still, when, in spite of all their strenuous efforts to get out of the rut of ordinariness and routine, they end up all the same by remaining unchangeably and perpetually ordinary and commonplace, then such people acquire a sort of typical character of commonplace people who simply refuse to be what they are and do their utmost to be original and independent without possesssing any qualities of independence."

-Dostoyevsky, "The Idiot"

This summer, I'm supposed to be doing research on performance and IlohaMail, so I thought it would help to start by putting together my thoughts on web application performance in general. You see articles about optimizing this and that, but what makes performance optimization so complicated with web-apps is that there are so many factors involved. In my article, I identified five:

• Execution Speed
  
• Response Time
  
• Interface Flow
  
• Transfer Speeds
  
• Rendering Speeds