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Mar 01
Help Recognize Internet Pioneers and Heroes – Nominations Open for 2021 Internet Hall of Fame (Featured Blog)
Do you know someone who deserves recognition for launching the Internet in their region or country? Or someone who made some major technical innovation that made the Internet faster or better? Or someone who is a passionate advocate who influenced othe…
Feb 19
Minor Administrative Updates to Internet Society Privacy Policy
Today we have made some minor updates to the Privacy Policy for this site and most of our other affiliated websites. The changes from the previous privacy policy were: Clarified in the introduction that this privacy policy applies to sites from both th…
Feb 15
TDYR 406 – My Initial Thoughts on TwitterSpaces
So what’s the deal with TwitterSpaces? How does it work? Will it truly be a competitor to Clubhouse for “social audio”? Today I had a chance to participate in three TwitterSpaces – and in this episode I talk about the experience of joining a TwitterSpa…
Feb 10
TDYR 405 – A Frustrating Aspect of Wikipedia: “Your” Page Is NOT Yours To Edit – Explaining COI
“Wait? What? If something is wrong on a Wikipedia page about my company, I can’t just go in and edit it??? That’s crazy!” One of the most challenging and frustrating aspects for newcomers to Wikipedia is the guidelines and policies about “conflict of …
Feb 01
TDYR 404 – Wikipedia Celebrates Its 20th Birthday (Jan 15)
Wikipedia is an idea that probably should NOT work… but it does! On January 15, 2021, Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary with over 6 million English articles and having just celebrated its 1 billionth edit (Jan 13). In this 404th episode, I ta…
Jan 25
Nominations Open for Public Interest Registry (PIR) Board of Directors (Featured Blog)
Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains? Or do you know of someone who would be a good candidate? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nomin…
Jan 04
WordPress Now Powers 39.5% of the Web (Featured Blog)
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…
