In the continuing saga of Evernote’s destruction of Skitch, a.k.a. how-to-really-badly-screw-up-a-product-loved-by-its-users, I grabbed a screenshot in the old Skitch 1.x (a.k.a. the version that works) and hit the "Share" button. I hoped to get back a skitch.com URL that I…
Nov 01
NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month: One Post Every Day
Today begins the November 2012 edition of "National Blog Posting Month" a.k.a. "NaBloPoMo" as it is referred to over on BlogHer, where this daily blogging project currently has a home. In truth, NaBloPoMo now happens every month as a project…
Nov 01
Sadly, The Big "C" Curtails My Participation Next Week At IETF 85
Sadly, the Big "C", the current unwelcome guest in our family, has claimed another activity that I enjoy. Next week is the 85th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Some 1,200+ engineers will gather in Atlanta, Georgia, to…
Oct 31
How To Participate in IETF 85 Remotely
Next week is the 85th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and, as we mentioned last week, there will be some IPv6 sessions at IETF85 we’ll be monitoring as well as many, many other meetings about various aspects of the Internet’s infrastructure. There will be 1,200+ engineers from all over the world gathering Read more…
Oct 29
FIR #675 – 10/29/12 – For Immediate Release
Hurricane Sandy; two new interviews coming; Quick News: international social media use, Europe’s business elite adopts social media, Apple’s court-ordered apology, Twitter tests a like button; Ragan promo; News That Fits: the rise of the social media l…
Oct 26
Ameche Lets Telcos Add Apps Into Regular Phone Calls To Add Value And Services
Imagine you are driving fast along a major highway in traffic and you receive a call from a critical customer. She wants to know immediately when you can meet tomorrow with her team to go over the final proposal and…
Oct 25
Four IPv6 Sessions Coming Up at IETF 85 in Atlanta
What’s happening with IPv6 at the 85th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) coming up in Atlanta November 4-9, 2012? Which working groups will be meeting? As noted in our recently published “Internet Society’s Rough Guide to IETF 85′s Hot Topics” there are 4 working groups meeting at IETF 85 specifically on IPv6 Read more…
Oct 24
Walking In Red Square – Reflections Of A Child Of The 1970s
I was born in the late 1960’s and grew up in the U.S. in the 70’s and 80’s when the Russians were the enemy. When the Soviet Union was the evil empire bent on the destruction of freedom, democracy and everything we held dear. When calling someone a "Russki" was an insult and when the news media routinely showed images of the Soviet military parades in Red Square. When we were sure that the Kremlin was sending spies into our country to steal all our secrets and would do whatever it could to destroy our lifestyle. And when the doctrine…
Oct 23
Excellent whitepaper/tutorial from SURFnet on deploying DNSSEC-validating DNS servers
How do you get started with deploying DNSSEC-validating DNS servers on your network? What kind of planning should you undertake? What are the steps you need to go through? The team over at SURFnet in the Netherlands recently released an excellent whitepaper that goes into the importance of setting up DNSSEC validation, the requirements for Read more…
Oct 23
Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers
Why should you deploy DNSSEC-validating DNS resolvers on your network? What kind of planning should you do to prepare? What steps do you need to do? The team at SURFnet has published a whitepaper titled “Deploying DNSSEC: Validation on recursive caching name servers” (PDF) that answers these specific questions and much more. The document covers: Read more…
