Last month in the annual “State of the Word” presentation for 2020, Automattic CEO and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress now powered 39% of websites, as measured by W3Techs. The number has actually grown a bit more since that…
Jan 02
Most Nights You Can Find Me (Briefly) Streaming on Twitch and Editing Wikipedia
Every night… usually sometime between 8:00 and 10:00pm US Eastern time, you can usually find me streaming on Twitch (danyork324) while … editing Wikipedia! 😀 If you’d like to learn more about Wikipedia editing – or just want to chat…
Jan 01
TDYR 403 – My Themes for 2021
As I’ve done for the last 12 years, I started 2021 talking about the “themes” I see myself weaving into my life over the next 12 months. This episode is a companion to this blog post that goes into more written detail: https://www.danyork.com/2021/01/m…
Jan 01
My Themes for 2021
As I have for the past 12 years (see list), my first post of 2021 across all my sites is of three(-ish) words that are my aspirations or “themes” for the year ahead. As my 18yo daughter has reminded me, the beginning of a new calendar year is a completely arbitrary marker 🙂, but it does provide a moment to pause and reflect. Particularly THIS year with the pandemic, we’ve had a great amount of reflection time! Note: while last year’s post was super short, this one is much longer… CLARITY (MISSION) Some of my colleagues at the Internet Society…
Dec 19
TDYR 402 – WordPress Now Powers 39% of the Web, and the State of the Word(Press) 2020
Is it true that over 39% of websites now use WordPress? In this episode I talk about that statistic and other information coming out of the “State of the Word 2020” event by Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, the company beh…
Dec 02
TDYR 401 – Will Twitter’s Fleets bring the Story format to Twitter? Or will they be fleeting?
In November 2020, Twitter launched “Fleets” globally, bringing the vertical “Story” format first launched on Snapchat and then Instagram, Facebook, and most other social networks. In this episode, I explore what Fleets are all about, how they work, wha…
Dec 01
TDYR 400 – Reflecting on 7 years and 400 episodes of this podcast
After 7 years and 400 episodes of The Dan York Report, this episodes has a look back at how and why I started this podcast, what I’ve used to create it, some of the content I’ve covered, along with some thoughts about the future. I would definitely wel…
Nov 21
TDYR 399 – The Genius of a Ceiling-Mounted Greenscreen
With two hooks in the ceiling, I made the single biggest home office improvement for Zoom calls and live streaming! In this episode I talk about how useful a ceiling-mounted green screen can be, and how green screens in general can help improve the qua…
Nov 10
Internet Society Seeks Nominations for 2021 Board of Trustees (Featured Blog)
re 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 a seat on the Internet Society Board of Trustees. The Internet Society support…
