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…
Oct 13
Testing Automatically Creating a Twitter Thread from a WordPress post
By way of a mention on Techmeme today, I learned that WordPress now allows you to tweet out a blog post as a linked thread of tweets. You can do this either using the hosted WordPress.com solution – or using … Continue reading
Sep 24
Using the details element via a Gutenberg block
As I wrote about last year, the HTML5 “details” element is a very useful and lightweight way to create a collapsed list of questions or other content. Investigating possible options, these kind of parts of a web page seem to … Continue reading
