Oct 19

For Immediate Release #5: Online advertisers messed up

Welcome to episode #5 of For Immediate Release. This week’s panel includes Shonali Burke, President and CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.; Dave Fleet, Senior Vice President at Edelman Digital; and Kami Watson Huyse, CEO at Zoetica Media. This week’s topics include discussions about Volkswagen’s new integrity-focused board member, new online advertising standards the Internet Advertising Bureau hopes will address the reasons ad-blockers are gaining in popularity, consumer perceptions of native advertising, Facebook’s Notify app and its implications for public relations practitioners, how PR agencies and in-house teams might be able to adopt the model of a new New York Times newsroom team dedicated toward building on stories that are going viral, whether PR can embrace a new ad agency trend away from hiring experienced admen and opting instead to hire “internet kids,” and Flipkart’s announcement that it would operate its e-commerce business strictly by app.
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Oct 19

Watch Live Today – DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide – ICANN 54

Want to understand what DNSSEC is all about?  Would you like to understand how DNSSEC helps make DNS more secure?  And why DNSSEC is important? Today (19 October 2015) in just under two hours at 5:30 pm Irish Summer Time (IST – UTC+1) we’ll be streaming the “DNSSEC For Everyone – A Beginner’s Guide” session Read more…

Oct 16

Tesla’s Software Update To Enable Self-Driving Cars Both Delights And Concerns Me

In a fascinating bit of synchronicity, yesterday morning at pretty much the exact same time that I was finalizing the publication of our IoT Overview paper and publishing Karen Rose’s IoT blog post, my friend (and former CEO of a company for which I worked) Jonathan Taylor was posting a photo to a social network of receiving a software update for his car over the Internet.

Yes, you read that correctly. 

His car, a Tesla, was downloading a software update across his home WiFi network. 

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Oct 16

ICANN 54 in Dublin: IANA, Women In Technology, DNS Security and more…

Over the next seven days we’ll have an Internet Society team on the ground in Dublin, Ireland, at the 54th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).Dan York

Oct 15

TDYR 268 – After My AstriCon2015 Keynote, I Can Breathe Again

TDYR 268 – After My AstriCon2015 Keynote, I Can Breathe Again by Dan York

Oct 15

DNSSEC And DANE Activities At ICANN54 In London On 19-21 October

Next week we’ll be in Dublin, Ireland, for the 54th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and as per usual there will be a great amount of DNS security activity happening. Some great introductions to DNSSEC and DANE – and some outstanding technical talks (and demos!) on Wednesday. Here are Read more…

Oct 12

For Immediate Release #4: Leave Justine alone!

Welcome to episode #4 of For Immediate Release. This week’s panel includes Think AHA Chief Instigator Mitchell Levy (who is also the host of Thought Leader Life on the FIR Podcast Network), Stone Temple Consulting senior consultant Doug Haslam, and ClaimWizard co-founder and marketing director Lynette Young. Topics covered include a questionable PR pitch, the launch of Twitter Moments, the return of Justine Sacco, and much more.
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Oct 06

Minding Our Routing Security MANRS At NANOG 65

Why and what kind of collective effort is needed to improve the security and resilience of the global Internet routing system? This will be the topic today at NANOG 65 in Montreal during the Security track from 11:30-1:00 EDT.   Our Andrei Robachevsky is moderating a panel is named “How can we work together to improve security and resilience of the global routing system?” and the panelists include:

Dan York

Oct 05

For Immediate Release #3: People who don’t want Peeple

This week’s panel includes Internet Society Senior Content Strategist Dan York, 4L Strategies Partner Jennifer Zingsheim Phillips, and Scott Monty, principal and owner at Scott Monty Strategies. During our conversation, we talked about Volkswagen bringing four PR firms on board to help with its self-made emissions scandal as well as the number of communicators writing about how they would handle the crisis, the dust-up that has emerged over the announcement that a new app called Peeple will let individuals rate each other as though they were restaurants on Yelp, the convergence of PR and Investor Relations, whether brands are serious about their commitment to fighting breast cancer or if they’re just “pinkwashing,” newsroom adoption of Virtual Reality, and much more.
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Oct 05

5 Hours Left To Submit Comments on ICANN Design Team Review of Plan for DNS Root Zone KSK Change

Do you have any comments on the findings of the ICANN Design Team regarding the changing of the root zone key-signing key (KSK) for DNSSEC?  If so, you have about five hours left to submit your comments as the comment period ends at 23:59 UTC today, 5 October 2015. You can read the Design Team Read more…