Dec 15
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-i…
Dec 14
At a “Breakfast with Santa” yesterday, Santa asked our 5-year-old daughter about what she wanted for Christmas…
Dec 14
One of the great changes in my life over the past year has been helping out at the community breakfasts for the homeless that happen now each winter weekday morning at our church in Keene, NH. While they are held in our church building, the teams of volunteers who staff the breakfasts also come from several other churches in our community. (In fact, we’re looking for one more church or other community group to step forward and help on the one remaining day that needs coverage.) It’s been quite an eye-opening experience for my wife and I, both in terms…
Dec 13
Verizon Wireless this week did something that initially seemed quite impressive – they launched “Voice Cypher”, an app available for iOS, Android and Blackberry that promises secure end-to-end encryption. It uses VoIP and is an “over-the-top” (OTT) app that works on any carrier. If you read the marketing material on their web site, it all sounds […]
Dec 13
Verizon came out with a new “Voice Cypher” OTT app for iOS, Android and Blackberry which sounds like a very cool way to have secure voice communication across mobile networks… until you realize that it has a government backdoor already built in. :-(…
Dec 12
On her blog yesterday, Emily Taylor wrote an outstanding post “Ofcom in denial over UK IPv6 failure” that begins: For the UK to reap the economic and social benefits of next generation technology, like the Internet of Things, we need plenty of internet address space. The original addresses have run out, and we must implement Read more…
Dec 12
Congratulations to the Norid team on going live with DNSSEC for the .NO country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) this week! You may recall we wrote about .NO being signed in the root zone of DNS back on November 18 (and the cake they baked to celebrate!), but this news this week now moves them to the Read more…
Dec 12
Great post this week in the New York Times about a new curling club starting up in Brooklyn: “In the Borough of Beards, Lay Down Some Ice, and Out Come the Brooms“. It reports that they had over 100 people turn out for their November Open House and now are setting up more leagues. Two […]
Dec 12
Great post this week in the New York Times about a new curling club starting up in Brooklyn: “In the Borough of Beards, Lay Down Some Ice, and Out Come the Brooms“.
It reports that they had …
Dec 11
How can podcast creation be made even easier on the iPhone? I recently stumbled upon a new iPhone app called simply "Opinion" that is aimed at making podcasting no longer just "a medium reserved for tech geeks and media corporations"…
