We were very pleased to see this recent post over at the CircleID site, “Domain Name System (DNS) Security Should Be One of Your Priorities“, by Rick Rumbarger. He makes a number of great points, particularly about the fact that so many people take DNS for granted and don’t give it the attention they should. Read more…
Jan 15
TDYR #070 – Have You Planned Your Own Funeral Yet?
Have you planned your own funeral/memorial service yet? Does anyone know how you would like your death handled? Do you want to be buried? cremated? In this episode I reflect on how a recent experience made me realize how important thinking about thes…
Jan 15
RFC 6555 – Happy Eyeballs
If an application gets back both an IPv4 and IPv6 address from DNS, which one should the application use to connect? This dilemma for a “dual-stack” host is one that Dan Wing and Andrew Yourtchenko addressed in RFC 6555, “Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts“ that can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6555 At a high level, the premise Read more…
Jan 14
Slides: Security In An IPv6 World – Myth & Reality
What are the myths about IPv6 security? What is the reality? How secure is IPv6 really? What new security advantages does it offer? What should IT system administrators be thinking about with regard to security as they move into an IPv6 world? In a talk to the South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) today, our Chris Read more…
Jan 14
TDYR #069 – On The Awesomeness Of Jetpack’s Connection Into Google+
The Jetpack plugin for WordPress now lets you publicize posts to your blog out to Google+ in addition to Twitter, Facebook and other services. In this episode I talk about the power of that and all the other features of the Jetpack plugin. More info:…
Jan 13
TDYR #068 – Are You Enabling “Rapid Content Creation” Within Your Organization?
Are you thinking of your organization as a “media company”? Are you fully embracing the opportunity the Internet provides to tell your own story in your own words? Are you enabling people within your company to rapidly create content online?
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Jan 13
Are You In The Business Of Rapid Content Creation?
It’s 2014. If you are in PR, marketing or communications – or have that as part of your role, even if you are not formally in that "department" – is part of your business the rapid creation of online content?…
Jan 13
FIR #738 – 1/13/14 – For Immediate Release
New podcast to join FIR network; Def Leppard’s Phil Collen on next LinkedConversations; new TV at Work episode is up; we’ll interview Dell’s new chief blogger, Laura Thomas; book review coming; Quick News: bad weather prompts bad real-time marketing, e…
Jan 12
TDYR #067 – Death, And Where Stories Fail
We are creatures of story. We use stories to help us explain the inexplicable, to make sense of the senseless, and to find meaning and explain the world around us. Yet sometimes, those stories fail us…
Jan 12
Video/Slides: Case Study Of TeraStream’s IPv6 Implementation (RIPE67)
How can a large carrier like Deutsche Telekom implement IPv6 to provide a new simplified service delivery network? In a presentation at the RIPE 67 meeting in October 2013, Peter Lothberg from DT outlined how they use IPv6 within the TeraStream network. His slides are available online as well as the video of the presentation: Read more…
