November 2017 archive

Nov 02

TDYR 337 – Explaining Curling Bonspiels

What is a “bonspiel”? What does it have to do with curling? How is it structured? How does it work? In this episode I talk about what bonspiels are, how they typically work, what people do at them and much more...

Nov 02

Testing Gutenberg 1.6

This is just  test of using the new Gutenberg editor version 1.6 on my iPad. 

Blue jeans 

Hmmm… it wouldn’t let me add this text block below the image. I had to move the image to the top, start writing in the text block, separate that into a new block, and then move the text block up on top.

Still, it is pretty cool!

Nov 01

Internet Society Seeks Nominations for 2018 Board of Trustees (Featured Blog)

Are you passionate about preserving the global, open Internet? Do you have experience in Internet standards, development or public policy? If so, please consider applying for one of the open seats on the Internet Society Board of Trustees. The Internet Society serves a pivotal role in the world as a leader on Internet policy, technical, economic, and social matters, and as the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). More...

Nov 01

Beginning NaPodPoMo – 30 Podcast Episodes in 30 Days

NationalPodcastPostMonth NaPodPoMoCan I publish one podcast episode each day for the month of November? That's the premise of "National Podcast Post Month" or "NaPodPoMo". Similar to the idea of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), where writers sign up to write a novel in a month, NaPodPoMo is a way for podcasters to get in on the action for the month of November.

For me, I decided to do it just as an incentive to see about getting back into more content creation. As I explained in The Dan York Report episode 333, the last 10 months of my life have been focused on the launch of the Internet Society's new website. That's consumed a HUGE amount of hours... and left me with very little time for all the normal writing and audio production that I've done.

The Internet Society website launched on September 14, and in that TDYR episode 333 I naively thought the work was close to done... and that I'd have more time for content creation.

The truth is that there's been a great amount of work still to be done on the website - and so I have NOT been able to return to creating content.

But now we're getting closer... and my internal NEED to create content is driving me crazy.

So this NaPodPoMo is just an incentive to help me get back into the swing of creating more content.

I'll be publishing new episodes at my SoundCloud account at https://soundcloud.com/danyork

You're welcome to follow along this month! We'll see how I do!

Nov 01

TDYR 336 – Beginning NaPodPoMo 2017 – 30 podcasts in 30 days

Today (Nov 1) marks the start of National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo) where participants commit to publishing 30 podcast episodes in 30 days. I'm going to give it a try this year... let's see how I do! More info is at http://napodpomo.org/