Monday, 20 November 2006
Tracing Jason Calacanis via Blog Logs 
Here is a little insight into how fast Jason Calacanis works. He recently left a comment on a pretty old post of mine XXX, so I decided to check the logs and see how Jason got there. Here are the excerpts from the logs, plus some comments. I replaced the real IP with a fake one. Note the times of each request.
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:36:48 -0500] "GET /blojsom/blog/2006/06/23/Netscape-com-Did-Not-Catch-On.html HTTP/1.1" 200 3948 "http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35826" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
He came in at 04:36:48. Note that this is 4 AM EST! If Jason is in the same timezone, that's some late night blog commenting. Even if he is on the west coast in the U.S., it's still late. Moreover, he came in via a link at the bottom of The Inquirer article!
Jason uses Firefox 2.0 and Windows NT 5.1 (ouch, old!).
His browser immediately fetches 2 flavours of Simpy feeds, Atom, and RSS 2.0. I didn't know Firefox did that! Nice, just hit my already smoking servers:
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:36:49 -0500] "GET /blojsom/blog/?flavor=atom HTTP/1.1" 200 9772 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:36:50 -0500] "GET /blojsom/blog/?flavor=rss2 HTTP/1.1" 200 9144 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
13 seconds later, he is already on the next post, Alexa Spike Anomaly:
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:37:01 -0500] "GET /blojsom/blog/2006/06/09/Alexa-Spike-Anomaly.html HTTP/1.1" 200 4330 "http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2006/06/23/Netscape-com-Did-Not-Catch-On.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
About 60 words and exactly 16 seconds later, he moves on to the comments section of the post he just read:
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:37:17 -0500] "GET /blojsom/blog/2006/06/09/Alexa-Spike-Anomaly.html?page=comments HTTP/1.1" 200 5475 "http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2006/06/09/Alexa-Spike-Anomaly.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
63 seconds later, he posts his comment. This step is the longest step, even though his comment is pretty brief (and in fact what he described didn't explain the Alexa anomaly):
1.2.3.4 - - [20/Nov/2006:04:38:20 -0500] "POST /blojsom/blog/2006/06/09/ HTTP/1.1" 200 5996 "http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2006/06/09/Alexa-Spike-Anomaly.html?page=comments" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0"
Total time: 1 minute and 32 seconds! Not bad for 4:30 AM (EST)!
Conclusions? Jason is on the cutting edge browser-wise, although he could use a new computer/OS. He reads articles that mention him, and he reads them thoroughly (remember, he got to this blog by following the last link in the "See Also" section at the end of the article about him). He stays up very late, probably to catch up on his reading (sounds sadly familiar). He reads pretty quickly, but he could work on commenting faster, although that 63 second delay might have as well been caused by this dog-slow blog server. Being Jason Calacanis is a LOT of work!
Enough of this, it's starting to sound like Valleyvag.
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