June 10, 2013 archive

Jun 10

Boom! Apple Disrupts Media Coverage of WWDC 2013 By Streaming The Keynote Live

Wwdc2013 live 300This morning I imagine there must have been a round of collective shock going through the tech media community as word spread that... GASP! ... Apple is going to stream the WWDC Keynote today at 10am US Pacific LIVE on the Internet?

Apple?

Streaming a WWDC keynote... LIVE???

HUH?

Given Apple's intense focus on secrecy, and the fact that the WWDC keynotes have NOT been streamed live in the past, an entire mini-industry has grown up around supplying "live" feeds out of the WWDC keynote. Sites like Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, MacWorld and a zillion others have maintained "live blogs" posting the latest updates out of WWDC. These sites have been populated by reporters actually in the WWDC room using smartphones, laptops or whatever other tools they can. Photos were posted from phone cameras. Updates went out to social media.

In fact, past WWDC keynotes have been proving grounds for various forms of "live blogging" software and platforms - as many have collapsed under the crushing load of massive numbers of viewers wanting the latest news out of Apple. It's also been interesting in the past to watch the different outlets and their strategies... having one person typing updates while another posts photos, for instance, while yet another is tweeting or updating other social media channels.

The scarcity of information led to truly creating a "spectacle", as Apple is so good at doing. You had to visit these sites and watch the social media streams if you wanted to know in the moment what Apple was announcing.

It's the way we've become used to monitoring WWDC keynotes within the tech community. We expected today's speech to be more of the same. Each tech news site has been focused on providing the best and most comprehensive coverage of WWDC, knowing that doing so would garner them a large number of new visitors and potential subscribers. They were all gearing up for covering today's event.

And then this morning... BOOM! ... Apple just deflated and disrupted an entire way of covering the event.

Watch wwdc liveFirst word started circulating that Apple had rolled out an "Apple Events" icon on Apple TV allowing Apple TV owners to watch the stream live. Then a link appeared on Apple's website where you can watch the WWDC lifestream. And then Apple actually issued a press release stating that they would be live streaming the event.

With one action, Apple just removed the primary need for all of those live blogs by all the major tech sites, as well as the need to follow streams on Twitter and other social networks. Sure, you can still follow them to get analysis or snarky commentary but there is no longer the need to follow them.

One site, 9to5Mac, has already stated they will be adjusting their coverage:

Update: Since Apple will be live streaming the event on the Web, iOS and AppleTV, we will be doing real-time updates only on our Twitter account and posting stories as they become available.

I expect some of the others will do so as well.

Now... will this actually lead to better coverage of the event for us as readers? In the past, these tech media sites have been competing with each other to churn out the live updates as fast as possible. But with the live stream available directly from Apple, will these news sites instead be able to focus on assembling articles about the announcements? (And will there then be even more articles churned out by the sites?)

It will be interesting to see... we'll find out in about two hours... :-)

P.S. This morning I published an audio commentary on this topic at:

I'll note that at the time I recorded this podcast it was not yet known that Apple would be streaming the keynote live on their website.

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Jun 10

Seeking DNSSEC Speaking Proposals For ICANN 47 DNSSEC Workshop in Durban, South Africa

ICANN 47 meeting in Durban, South AfricaInterested in sharing your experience implementing DNSSEC?  Have a new tool or service for DNSSEC you would like to demonstrate? Are you experiencing a challenge with getting DNSSEC implemented that you think the larger community should be aware of? Have you found a new and interesting use for DNSSEC?  Or done something new with the DANE protocol?

If so, and if you are planning to attend ICANN 47 in Durban, South Africa, the program committee (of which I am a member) for the DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 47 is actively seeking proposals to include in the workshop.  As noted in the Call For Participation, we are seeking presentation ideas on topics such as:

  • DNSSEC Activities in Africa
  • The Operation Realities of Running DNSSEC
  • DNSSEC and Enterprise Activities
  • When Unexpected DNSSEC Events Occur
  • Preparing for Root Key Rollover
  • DNSSEC: Regulative, Legislative and Persuasive Approaches to Encouraging Deployment
  • DANE and Other DNSSEC Applications
  • Use of DNSSEC in the Reverse Space

Please see the Call For Participation for more details.

We are also open to presentations related to DNSSEC that don’t fit exactly in one of these listed topics.  We’ve already got a great list of presentations but we still could add a few more.

You can view the program and presentations from the ICANN 46 DNSSEC Workshop in Beijing to understand the kind of presentations we are seeking. I’ll note that we’re changing the format a bit for ICANN 47 to have fewer presentations for longer periods of time. We felt it was a bit rushed in the Beijing workshop.

If you are interested, all you need to do is send a brief description (1-2 sentences) of your proposed presentation to dnssec-durban@shinkuro.com, ideally by today, June 10th, as we are working to finalize the program to publish it on the website.

Thanks – and we’re looking forward to another great event in Durban!  If you are not able to attend in person, the event will be streamed live and also archived for later viewing.

Jun 10

TDYR #015 – Apple WWDC Keynote – The Day The Tech Community’s Productivity Goes Toward Zero

Today the tech community's productivity will take a dive as eyes focus on what happens at the Keynote of Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) happening at 10am US Pacific / 1pm US Eastern. With Apple's maniacal focus on secrecy, they are extremely successful in building anticipation. A few things are believed to be known... but how accurate are the rumors? For the first time I can remember, Apple's WWDC Keynote will be streamed live on Apple TV devices, which should be a change in the coverage. John Gruber also had some great thoughts about how Apple originally needed to get people comfortable with a touchscreen interface, and it's time for something more... http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/wwdc_2013_expectations http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324798904578531661685819892.html http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/09/what-ios7-looks-like/ http://9to5mac.com/2013/06/06/wwdc-2013-roundup-ios-7-os-x-10-9-macbooks-genius-like-radio-app-plus-new-tidbits/

Jun 10

FIR #707 – 6/10/13 – For Immediate Release

New Speakers and Speeches and Jeremiah Owyang interview are up, interviews with Glenn Gaudet and CEOs and cofounders of Festicket and Farmhopping coming; Alice Marshall's blog gets a new address; you can leave FIR audio comments directly from the website; IABC report coming next week; Quick News: a brilliant use for Vine, compliance not to blame for pharma's lack of social media engagement, Amazon's Storyteller turns scripts into storyboards, study finds social networks improve internal access to information; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Cheerios gets it right by standing its ground in the face of social media backlash, Dan York's report, impressions from LeWeb London 2013, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, four reports from the frontlines of digital and social media, Michael Netzley's Asia report, Anonymous enters the news business; music from Belladonna; and more.