FIR #807 – 5/11/15 – For Immediate Release

Geeks Bearing Gifts book review is up; Clammr CEO interview coming, Quick News: Nothing fair about fair use at SoundCloud, Second Life is a forgotten wonder, new data on native advertising’s disclosure issues, Facebook I’m a Voter button gets more than…

Celebrating 15 Years of Blogging! Starting with Advogato…

Fifteen years ago today I did something that I had no clue would transform my life in the years ahead. On May 10, 2000, I was sitting in cavernous basement office of Linuxcare on Townsend Street in San Francisco. It…

DNS-OARC 2015 Spring Workshop This Weekend (May 9-10) Covers DNSSEC and DNS Security

The 2015 Spring Workshop of the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC) takes place this weekend, May 9-10, right before the RIPE 70 meeting in Amsterdam. As per usual the agenda is packed full of all sorts of sessions related to DNS in general, with a number getting into DNSSEC and overall DNS security.  Read more…

Wow! Cisco To Acquire Tropo’s Communications Application Platform

WOW! In companion blog posts today Cisco and Tropo announced Cisco’s intent to acquire the Tropo team and platform: Cisco blog: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tropo Tropo blog: Tropo joins Cisco to Power next-gen collaboration APIs As someone who…

Another Great DNSSEC Statistics Site For Second-Level Domains – rick.eng.br

Want to know how many domains are signed with DNSSEC under each top-level domain (TLD)?  We now have another site to help!  For over a year now, every week I use a great site that Rick Lamb maintains at: http://rick.eng.br/dnssecstat/ so that I can find out what new domains I need to add to our Read more…

TDYR 244 – Please Help ReConnect Nepal

After the devastating earthquake on April 25, there are many excellent efforts underway to help the people in Nepal. As the initial surge of help continues, the Internet Society’s (ISOC) Nepal Chapter is working to help rebuild the communication and In…

The Power of SoundCloud As A Podcast Publishing Platform

Why do I like SoundCloud as a podcast hosting platform? What advantages can SoundCloud offer podcasters? Why should you consider SoundCloud as a place to distribute your podcast? Last week SoundCloud announced that its podcasting features were now publicly available…

The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #806: May 5, 2015

Converse knows how to work with fans, bad tweets from the Houston Rockets and the City of Cleveland prompt different apologies, Johns Hopkins University students will no longer eat chicken, a change to Promoted Tweets gives more ammunition to native advertising’s critics; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Bud Light promotes misogyny, Virtual Reality is coming to journalism, listener comments discussion, Walmart laid off employees and then provided well-being health advice to them, Igloo Software promo, Dan York’s Tech Report (including ISOC support for Nepal earthquake victims, how to test your website, certificate pinning, WebRTC voice chat web app, and Soundcloud as a podcast platform), the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, PR needs more SEO (and vice versa).
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FIR #806 – 5/4/15 – For Immediate Release

Neville’s in Boston, Gini Dietrich is guest co-host; new Steve Rubel podcast; a chat with Gini; Quick News: Converse knows how to work with fans, bad tweets of the week, JHU student’s won’t eat chicken, Twitter’s bad native ad decision; Media Monitorin…

TDYR 243 – The Power of SoundCloud As A Podcast Publishing Platform

Why do I like SoundCloud as a platform for podcast publishing? What are some of the reasons podcasters should consider it? I dive into detail in this episode… (and a companion post on http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/ will be available later…