Deadline of April 21 To Make Your Website “Mobile-Friendly” Or Drop In Google Search Results (Featured Blog)

Is your website “mobile-friendly”? If your site is NOT and you care about how your site ranks in Google search results (and let’s face it, we pretty much all do!)… well… you need to get busy! As Google very clearly indicated: “Starting April 21, we…

TDYR 239 – Creating Other People’s Content… At The Expense Of Your Own

TDYR 239 – Creating Other People’s Content… At The Expense Of Your Own by Dan York

The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #803: April 13, 2015

Quick News: US Postal Service could find new business using augmented reality glasses, where to find and create your own animated GIFs, traveling employees embrace Uber and AirBnB, the Wall Street Journal’s approach to native advertising; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;

News That Fits: How to run a successful blogger relations programme; Dan York’s Tech Report: Friendfeed really did shut down on April 9, Twitter ends its partnership with Datasift, and more; if leaders don’t use the internal social network, nobody will; listener comments in audio and in the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; Apple Watch: altering the face of technology retailing forever?; Igloo Software promo; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; new modeling of the mediums of communication;

Music from The Pink Tiles; and more.
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FIR #803 – 4/6/15 – For Immediate Release

Collaborate London coming April 16; Quick News: US Postal Service considers Augmented Reality, where to find and create your own animated GIFs, traveling employees embrace Uber and AirBnB, The Wall Street Journal’s approach to native advertising; Custo…

TDYR 238 – Mind Blown By Looping Of Cello And Double-Necked Guitar

TDYR 238 – Mind Blown By Looping Of Cello And Double-Necked Guitar by Dan York

IANA DNSSEC Root Key Ceremony 21 Streaming Live Today

If you’re interested in the security at the root of DNSSEC, you can watch the IANA DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony streaming live today – happening right now, in fact – from a data center in Culpeper, Virginia.  Just go to: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/kskceremony where you can connect to ICANN’s Adobe Connect streaming service.  There you can watch Read more…

TDYR 237 – Getting Reacquainted With Microsoft Windows

After many years away in Mac OS X, I recently got reacquainted with Microsoft Windows 7 … in this episode I talk about what I thought… and how it made me appreciate “less is more” even more!

Deadline of April 10 to Apply For CARIS Workshop on Coordinating Response to Internet Attacks (Featured Blog)

You have just a couple of days to either complete a survey or submit a paper to join the “Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS)” Workshop happening on June 19, 2015, in Berlin, Germany… If you are interested in helping improve the ov…

46 Years of RFCs (Celebrating The Anniversary of RFC 1)

By way of a tweet from @IETF this morning, it was fun to note that it was 46 years ago today, on April 7, 1969, when the very first “Request for Comments” or “RFC” was issued by Steve Crocker.  RFC 1 defined the “IMP software” used in the communication between hosts on the ARPAnet and makes for interesting reading today.  Steve was in those days a graduate student at UCLA and 46 years later now serves as the Chairman of the Board of ICANN.  Back in 1999, Steve offered some reflections in RFC 2555 on 30 years (at that time) of RFCs that included this bit about how it began:

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The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #802: April 6, 2015

Quick News:

Collaborate/London intranet workshop from Igloo Software on April 16, alarming declines in social media among Inc 500, good advice in BBC’s updated social media guidelines, companies just aren’t listening to what reporters want from their online newsrooms; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop.

News That Fits:

Does it make sense to do online Q&As on Reddit, Twitter, etc?; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report: Gushcloud controversy and smear campaigns conducted by blogging cartels; would you use Periscope for employee communication as one CEO did?; listener comments in the FIR Podcast Community on Google+ and via email; The Economist study identifies Gen-narrators who could be effective brand advocates; Dan York’s Tech Report: Turkey blocks social networks, Flickr and the public domain, NASA space image library, and more; Igloo Software promo; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; with social still treated as an ‘afterthought’ by PR agencies, we offer some advice.
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