News of the Damned for Sunday, March 15 2020

Today's Episode if brought to you by* Catchpoint Software: https://www.catchpoint.com* Foulk Consulting Services: https://www.foulkconsulting.comThis is the COVID-19 Episode. In this show we cover several sites impacted by the COVID-19 Virus’ impact on organizations and end users. In specific, we discuss the Johns Hopkins University virus tracker, the HEB Grocery Chain in Texas, and the impact on Walt Disney Resorts.Lastly, we take a look at the impact of bots associated with online voting for @TheCdnAcademy.Along the way we touch on the topics of quality of data, staleness of data and how this advises your cache window for a site, CDN benefits and how this might be scaled down to an individual company, the psychology of the user population & the shifting of behavior by being proactive, and finally the psychology of bots & bot mitigation.