FIR #680 – 12/3/12 – For Immediate Release

Interviews coming with Craig Silverman and Ekaterina Walter; Quick News: ITN Productions launches citizen journalism channel, US mobile phone usage metrics, Leveson Inquiry report user experience; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Leveson traditional media …

What Happens When All Communication From A Country Is Disrupted?

What happens when all communications into and out of a country is completely disrupted? We’re seeing that right now with Syria. As I wrote on CircleID yesterday, all Internet access is down… and reports say that all communication via cell…

Hash-slinger Helps You Easily Create TLSA records for DNSSEC / DANE

If you are looking to get started with the DANE protocol to provide higher security for SSL/TLS certificates, a basic question can be – how do you generate a TLSA record to put in your DNS zone file? As we outlined before, there are a number of different tools you can use.  One that is Read more…

Hash-slinger – a tool for creating TLSA records for the DANE protocol

Hash-slinger is a package of tools created by Paul Wouters of RedHat to make it easy to create records for  the DANE protocol that will allow you to secure your SSL/TLS certificates using DNSSEC. The package is available for Linux at: http://people.redhat.com/pwouters/hash-slinger/ One of the tools provided in the package is a command “tlsa” that Read more…

Finding My "Barriers To Blogging" Apply To Audio Podcasting As Well

In thinking about how I might do more audio podcasting, I found myself hitting many of the same barriers I wrote about with regard to blogging… so I made this recording:

Syria Disconnects From The Internet (Featured Blog)

This morning brought word that all Internet connections into Syria had been severed. Internet monitoring firm Renesys was among the first to report the news in a blog post that they have continued to update. That news was subsequently confirmed by othe…

Syria Disconnects From The Internet (Featured Blog)

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Skype 4.2.1 for iPad/iPhone Brings Microsoft Integration, Chat Interop, Better IM Features

Skype today brought its increased integration with Microsoft services to the iPhone and iPad with the new release 4.2.1 available in the iOS AppStore. As you can already do in the Windows, Mac and Android versions of Skype, the big…

Can A Blog Post Be A "Work In Progress"?

Are we stuck with the mental model of blog posts as pieces of content that are just published and then not touched again? Or can we treat a blog post as a "work in progress" that will continue to evolve…

Fashion Designer Chris Benz, Copyright, Photography – And Watching The Social Web React

Right now a part of the social web is in full reaction mode to what they see as a strong injustice… and we can watch it unfold right now in Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more. Photographer Jessica Nichols has laid…