On Thanksgiving, we’re thankful for our next panel

We’re very excited to have three Chris’s on the November 30 recording of FIR #11: Chris Brogan, Chris Christensen, and Christine Perkett.
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Only One Week Left to Submit Nominations for PIR Board of Directors (Closes Nov 30) (Featured Blog)

If you would like to help guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains, the deadline for nominations is MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2015! After reading the information about the PIR Board r…

Blue, blue, blue…

It’s all blue, blue, blue! (and yes, this is a test post! 😉 )

Giving Up On The iPad2

I finally gave up. After months of trying to continue to use my older iPad 2 with first iOS 8 and then iOS 9, as chronicled in several blog posts, I finally gave in and bought a new iPad Air…

TDYR 275 – Finally Giving Up On The iPad 2

I finally gave up on the iPad 2. After trying to keep it usable after making the mistake of upgrading to iOS 8 and then iOS 9, I finally gave in and bought a newer iPad … more on the story here: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2015/11/giving-up-on…

For Immediate Release #10: Responding to terror with cats

Welcome to episode #10 of For Immediate Release. This week’s panel includes Philippe Borremans, an independent communications consultant from Brussels and host of the PR-focused podcast, Wag the Dog; Glenn Gaudet, founder and president of GaggleAMP and host of the podcast, AMP Up Your Social Media; and Donna Papacosta, principal of Trafalgar Communications and co-author of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional. This week’s topics range from more discussion about social media and the Paris terror attacks to changes to Google+, how to convince companies to let their employees become ambassadors for the brand, companies pitching journalists with targeted paid Facebook ads, and much more.
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Video and Slides Now Available For My AstriCon 2015 Keynote: Open Source and The Global Disruption of Telecom

If you’re interested in what I said last month at AstriCon 2015 in my keynote on "Open Source And The Global Disruption of Telecom: What Choices Will We Make?", the video and slides are both available. As I wrote about…

TDYR 274 – Beginning a Weekend of Curling at a Broomstones Bonspiel

TDYR 274 – Beginning a Weekend of Curling at a Broomstones Bonspiel by Dan York

TechTarget Sheds Light On DNSSEC, CAs and Government Spying / Control

Over on TechTarget, Michael Heller wrote this week about some of the criticisms around DNSSEC and how some of them may be rooted in misunderstandings of what DNSSEC is all about.  His article is: Experts: DNSSEC protocol can’t be worse than certificate authorities I’m admittedly NOT a fan of title TechTarget gave the piece – Read more…

WordPress Now Powers 25% of Top 10 Million Websites

Fascinating news out of W3Techs earlier this month that WordPress now powers over 25% of the Alexa top 10 million websites. The next closest content management systems (CMS) are Joomla at 2.8% and Drupal at 2.1%. The full stats are…