It was five years ago today that I started using Twitter as what would come to be known as "@danyork". October 24, 2006. I remember the date purely because "10/24" in the US way of writing dates is an über-geeky…
Oct 24
150 Years Ago Today, the USA Got Wired!
A great article in the San Francisco Examiner today about the completion, 150 years ago today, of the transcontinental telegraph here in the United States: 150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA I think "a primitive Internet" might…
Oct 24
The Incredibly Tedious Monotony of Chemotherapy
Today is my wife’s second (of four) chemotherapy appointments. She is sitting right now at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Cheshire Medical Center here in Keene, NH, with an IV of toxic drugs flowing in to her. Many friends have contacted us/her wishing her all the best today… hoping it all goes well… relaying that they are thinking/hoping/praying all the best for her. All of which is VERY much appreciated. The truth, though, is that today is really not bad. Today is really just incredibly… well… monotonous. Boring. Tedious. Whatever word you want to pick. This has been…
Oct 24
Pondering All The Strange (Chinese?) Accounts Joining My Email Newsletter List…
Has anyone else operating an email mailing list noticed subscriptions pouring in over the past few months from strange email accounts? I have been amazed – and I can’t for the life of me understand WHY this is going on….
Oct 21
Roger Ebert’s Scary Examples of Writing From Current Journalism Students
Um, this is SCARY… (the writing, not the politicians, although admittedly I find some of their ideas scary, too…) Can we please have some grammar? … and maybe some coherent sentences? Please? If you found this post interesting or useful,…
Oct 20
My Rant: Who Are We Building RTCWEB/WebRTC For? Telephony Developers or Web Developers?
Yesterday morning I did something I haven’t done in eons. Many years, probably. (I can’t remember.) I fired off a "rant" on an IETF mailing list. I’ve been a huge proponent of the "RTCWEB/WebRTC" work going on in the "RTCWEB"…
Oct 20
The Hardest Part of Podcasting Is…
… probably not what you think it is. It’s not the technology… as that is in so many cases the easiest aspect. Download a tool like Audacity to your computer and start talking into your built-in mic. Boom. You’re done….
Oct 19
When Did Facebook Start Letting You Unfollow Posts?
When did Facebook copy Google+ and add the feature that you could stop receiving notifications for a specific post? As the image shows, I just noticed it yesterday: Very nice to see as there are certainly times when I have…
Oct 18
Can Alec Saunder Woo Developers Back to the Blackberry Platform?
Can he do it? Can he get developers to actually care enough about the Blackberry / Playbook platform to come and build apps? Today my friend Alec Saunders, RIM’s newly minted "VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development", took to…
Oct 18
Amazon and the Incredible Disruption of The Publishing Industry
Have you been tracking the insane degree to which Amazon.com is utterly disrupting the traditional publishing industry? Have you been paying attention to how incredibly the business models and the players are changing? As an author of multiple books who…
