Why I Am NOT Always Okay Being The Product (Re: Facebook and Ello)

Sometimes I’m okay being "the product", sometimes I’m not. I just want the choice… and to know who has access to my data. Today Shel Holtz published a piece on his blog, "You say I’m the product of services I…

Verizon Wireless Hits 56% IPv6, T-Mobile USA 40%, AT&T 24%

The September 2014 World IPv6 Launch measurements came out last week showing continued strong growth of IPv6.  Verizon Wireless’ deployment edged up over 56%. T-Mobile USA is now over 40% IPv6.  AT&T is getting closer to hitting 25%. Telefonica del Peru crossed over the 10% milestone.  As Mat Ford wrote over on the World IPv6 Launch Read more…

Tunisia Signs .TN And Arabic IDN TLD With DNSSEC

Last Friday Tunisia became the latest country to be able to offer people registering domains in their country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) the higher security and trust that comes with DNSSEC. On September 26, 2014, DS records appeared in the root zone of DNS for two TLDs: .TN .تونس  (xn--pgbs0dh) People who subscribe to our weekly distribution Read more…

I love it when a Monday morning starts with getting two blog posts out before 10 am! :-)

I love it when a Monday morning starts with getting two blog posts out before 10 am! 🙂

FIR #775 – 9/29/14 – For Immediate Release

Chats with Chip coming to the FIR Podcast Network; Quick News: Why we remember content with images and video, Yahoo kills Yahoo, KitKat’s Bendgate tweet eclipses Oreo’s Super Bowl win, Sobo is Vine for audio; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Say hello to E…

Yesterday I wrote a piece about “The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web” – at the end I

Yesterday I wrote a piece about “The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web” – at the end I also had a brief commentary on the difference between Known and Ello – http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/09…

3 Quick Tips About Getting Started With Ello

As I’ve started playing with Ello, the new social network that many early adopters are experimenting with (and you can find me at https://ello.co/danyork), I’ve learned a few things that I thought I’d share in case they can help others…

The Importance of The ‘Known’ Publishing Platform And The Rise Of The Indie Web

How do we retain control of our content? How can we make sure what we write and create online remains online? How do we make it so that we can post our content in one place and distribute it out…

CloudFlare Re-affirms Goal of DNSSEC Support By End of 2014

Over on ThreatPost, Dennis Fisher wrote about “Small Signs Of Progress On DNSSEC” reporting on a presentation by CloudFlare’s Nick Sullivan at the Virus Bulletin conference in Seattle this week.  The article didn’t go deeply into DNSSEC (as our tutorial pages do) but did have this point which is key to me: Sullivan said CloudFlare, Read more…

Tracking The Shellshock BASH Vulnerability – News, Tools and Links

shellshockWith all the attention today to the Shellshock vulnerability, I need a place to keep track of it for my own purposes.  If this page or list helps anyone else, that’s great, but this is primarily a tool for me to capture what’s going on.  I …

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