December 15, 2014 archive

Dec 15

Moving My Various Web Sites To Responsive Design To Be Mobile-Friendly

Danyork com responsive designToday I made on change on this "DanYork.com" site to move it to a new theme that uses "responsive design" so that it will look good on a mobile device as well on a large screen. I've been wanting to do this for quite some time because any of a zillion reports out there will tell you that an increasing majority of users are viewing websites on their mobile devices. I can just see that in my own behavior where I use my iPhone or iPad for viewing so many sites.

The challenge I have is that this site, and my other major personal blog sites, are all still hosted on TypePad, one of the early blog hosting providers where I started writing back in 2005 or so. Some year I'd love to consolidate them onto one of the other hosted sites where I run WordPress... but the amount of work to do so is quite substantial given the hundreds upon hundreds of posts between my various sites. Some day...

Meanwhile, I figured out enough about TypePad's one responsive design theme to be able to move this site over. At some point over my holiday vacation I'd like to move these two over to a responsive theme:

They are where the bulk of my personal writing occurs. The challenge with any move to a new theme on TypePad is that you need to rebuild the menus, sidebars, etc., so it does take a bit of time.

I also want to move my writing aggregation site to a responsive theme:

That site is hosted on WordPress and so there are many options... I just have to find one that I like and spend the time configuring it.

Most of my other WordPress-hosted sites already are responsive, including:

Out of my various websites where I write that will really just leave CircleID, where I have no control over the formatting, and my 7 Deadliest UC Attacks site that is also still hosted by TypePad. If I have the time, I'll probably just move that one during the migration of my DisTel and DisCon sites.

And then, of course, there is my Deploy360 site at work... which is a MUCH bigger challenge that will be dealt with sometime in 2015...

The end goal will be that people will be able to read my writing with ease on whatever platform they use - mobile phone, tablet, desktop... or anything else.

Stay tuned...

Dec 15

FIR #786 – 12/15/14 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: Two airlines go Apple, employees increase your reach, Apple recruits luxury experts for watch debut, Facebook search implications for brands; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Microcopy is a new frontier for communicators, Dan York's Tech Report, Twitter's impact on news, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, agencies need to pay more attention to Glassdoor.com, Igloo Software promo, the past week on the FIR Podcast Network, the Social Media Charter for financial services firms; music from Plastic Sky; and more.

Dec 15

Indonesia And Vanuatu Sign .ID and .VU With DNSSEC

Asia PacificWe were very pleased to learn this morning that both Indonesia’s .ID and Vanuatu’s .VU country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) had DS records uploaded to the root zone of DNS over the weekend.  What this means is that they have both entered the fourth of five deployment stages that we track as part of the DNSSEC Deployment Maps.

At some point soon, people who have registered domains under .ID and .VU should be able to upload their own DNSSEC records and be able to obtain the higher level of security and trust that comes with having their domain signed with DNSSEC.  We don’t yet know when the registries for .ID and .VU will start accepting DS records from registrants, but hopefully at some point soon.

Given that the records were entered into the root zone of DNS after I had finished updating the database on Friday for the DNSSEC Deployment Maps that were distributed this morning, I took the unusual step of re-generating the maps today after a quick database update.  Subscribers to the public dnssec-maps mailing list have all received a second set of maps for today.  Normally I might have just waited for next week but given Indonesia’s size it adds a nice bit of green to the Asia Pacific map and I wanted that to be shown.

With these two ccTLDs having their DS record in the root zone, this brings us to 97 of the 247 ccTLDs that we track in our database being signed with DNSSEC.  (There are also .EU and .SU which we consider more “regional” TLDs (and are both signed), but other lists count as ccTLDs, so you could say that we show 99 of 249 being signed.)  Given that most of the generic TLDs are signed and all the new gTLDs MUST be signed when they launch, the remaining 150 unsigned ccTLDs are the major area where attention will be focused over the next while in terms of getting TLDs signed.  ICANN’s DNS team is spending a good bit of time traveling to many of these countries to help them get their ccTLDs signed and operational.

Congratulations to the teams at .ID and .VU for getting their domains signed and linked in to the DNSSEC global “chain of trust”.  We look forward to learning that those two ccTLDs become “Operational” and second-level domains can begin uploading DNSSEC records soon.

Note – if you would like to learn more about how you can get started with DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored to your role or type of organization.

Dec 15

Two Weeks In… How Is A Blog Post A Day Doing? #Finish2014Strong

So, two weeks after saying I would write at least one blog post a day (and talking about that) for all of December 2014, how am I doing?

Well... so far so good.

  • I posted at least once on the Deploy360 site every work day.
  • I did put something up on my personal sites every day so far.
  • I recorded a new "The Dan York Report" podcast on 10 of the 14 days.

I've had a serious cold/cough that made for really poor audio... so on some of the worst days I skipped it. I didn't think it made sense to record a poor-quality audio podcast just for the sake of saying I did it.

In fact, I'm honestly surprised how much I did write, given how foggy my head has felt and how most days it has seemed like I'm moving through molasses.

Now... the question will be whether I can continue this through the remaining days that include holidays and vacation time!

Here's the list of the month so far:

Monday, December 1

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Other:

Tuesday, December 2

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Wednesday, December 3

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Thursday, December 4

Deploy360 Programme:

DNSSEC Deployment Initiative:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Friday, December 5

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

  • (no podcast - too sick)

Saturday, December 6

Deploy360 Programme:

  • (no post)

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Sunday, December 7

Deploy360 Programme:

  • (no post)

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

  • (no podcast - too sick)

Monday, December 8

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Other:

Tuesday, December 9

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Wednesday, December 10

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

  • (no podcast - too sick)

Thursday, December 11

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Friday, December 12

Deploy360 Programme:

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

  • (no podcast)

Saturday, December 13

Deploy360 Programme:

  • (no post)

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Sunday, December 14

Deploy360 Programme:

  • (no post)

Personal Sites:

The Dan York Report audio podcast:

Now we'll see what the rest of the month brings...

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Dec 15

TDYR 197 – Halfway Through December, How Is #Finish2014Strong Doing?

Back on December 1 in episode 187 I said my goal was to write at least one blog post a day for every day in December 2014. Two weeks in... how am I doing? My list of posts in December so far: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/12/two-weeks-in-how-is-a-blog-post-a-day-doing-finish2014strong.html Original posts: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/12/a-blog-post-a-day-for-december-2014-finish2014strong.html https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-187-1-blog-post-a-day-in