FIR #694 – 3/11/13 – For Immediate Release

Shel on the road, Neville recording solo, new PR podcast The Echo Chamber, new voices in this episode; Quick News: Cision University Programme for PR professionals, Pew study on Twitter, Pizza Hut and 140-second job interviews, Facebook updates seen by…

VUC Today: The Jitsi VoIP Softphone – Join The Call To Learn More!

What is new with the Jitsi softphone these days? What new capabilities does it have as it continues to expand its support of SIP, XMPP and other protocols? I’ve long been a fan and user of Jitsi, in part because…

DNSSEC Discussion In DNSOP Working Group At IETF86 Next Week

At the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) next week in Orlando there is one primary working group where DNSSEC will be discussed, the DNSOP (DNS Operations) working group.  As noted in our recently-published “Rough Guide To IETF 86′s Hot Topics“, DNSOP develops guidelines for the operation of DNS software servers and the administration of Read more…

IPv6 Sessions at IETF 86 Next Week

The 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is happening next week in Orlando and if you are interested in IPv6, there are quite a number of working groups where IPv6 will be discussed.  Our recently-published “Rough Guide To IETF 86′s Hot Topics” highlights three of the IPv6 groups: v6ops (IPv6 Operations) WG Read more…

Every Minute You Spend Consuming Content Is A Minute You Are Not Creating Content

Think about it… right now, while you are reading this, you could be writing an article for your blog or website. You could be recording a video for YouTube or an audio segment for SoundCloud. You could be working on…

ISC’s “IPv6 Security Focus Month” Begins

As we mentioned previously, the handlers at the SANS Institute’s “Internet Storm Center (ISC)” have indicated that March will be their “IPv6 Focus Month”. To that end, they’ve started off the month with a list of IPv6 resources they have previously published at the ISC and their list does include some great content (some of which Read more…

FIR #693 – 3/4/13 – For Immediate Release

Congratulations Steve Rubel on new Edelman gig; Civility book review coming; B2B Huddle set for May 2, FIR will podcast keynotes; FIR listener discount to London conference; Quick News: most brands using Instagram, the return of sweetness, the first Vi…

Geoff Huston Unravels An IPv6 Bug Involving Apple Mail And Microsoft Exchange

Geoff Huston at APNIC Labs published today a fascinating and very well-documented exploration of why he was having occasional seemingly random problems sending email from his Apple Mail program via APNIC’s Microsoft Exchange Server. It’s such a good read that I’ll not spoil the story, other than to say it is a good example of the Read more…

The International Space Station’s Canadian Music Video Collaboration – and Google+ Hangout (Featured Blog)

As much as we talk here about the inner workings of the Internet’s infrastructure, there are times when you have to just sit back and look at how incredibly cool some of the things are that are enabled by the Internet. For example, last week I was deli…

Going on VUC Podcast Today – And A Few More Name Ideas

Going on VUC Podcast Today – And A Few More Name Ideas by Dan York