The Dan York Report

I learned a very cool trick to type special characters while on a Mac... where before to type a "ü" I would press "Alt+u" to get an umlaut and then the "u" key, now I just use what I describe in this episode... VERY cool! (And presumably only for Macs - I don't know if there is a similar trick for Windows.)

Have you planned your own funeral/memorial service yet? Does anyone know how you would like your death handled? Do you want to be buried? cremated? In this episode I reflect on how a recent experience made me realize how important thinking about these questions can be - as well as sharing that information with others.

The Jetpack plugin for WordPress now lets you publicize posts to your blog out to Google+ in addition to Twitter, Facebook and other services. In this episode I talk about the power of that and all the other features of the Jetpack plugin. More info: http://jetpack.me/ http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2013/12/awesomeness-jetpack-27-lets-wordpress-users-auto-post-content-to-google.html

Are you thinking of your organization as a "media company"? Are you fully embracing the opportunity the Internet provides to tell your own story in your own words? Are you enabling people within your company to rapidly create content online? See: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/01/are-you-in-the-business-of-rapid-content-creation.html

We are creatures of story. We use stories to help us explain the inexplicable, to make sense of the senseless, and to find meaning and explain the world around us. Yet sometimes, those stories fail us...

A couple of recent events have reminded me how incredibly important it is to cherish the ones you love...

I received an abusive fraudulent phone call today from someone from the "Windows security service" who no doubt wanted to get me to install malware on my computer. The call made once again think of our need for "secure origin identification" within IP communications. More info at: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130729_can_we_create_a_secure_caller_id_for_voip/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/stir/...

"Why do you do it?" someone recently asked me after learning I'd flown around 96,000 miles last year year to somewhat ironically talk to people about making the Internet work better. In this episode I talk about WHY I do what I do... and about the choice of futures I see us having for the Internet and for our online future...

Some evening thoughts while walking the cold streets of Keene, NH, on our need to help those who have no choice but to be out on the streets...

I'm pleased to announce the launch of a new podcast, "FIR On Technology with Dan York" where I'll be doing deeper dives into the tools and technology that people involved with communications / PR / marketing need to care about. In this TDYR episode I talk about the show, play the promo and discuss the first episode. Links discussed include: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/01/my-new-pod...

It's my first work day in 2014 and in this episode I talk about 3 reasons why today is significant, one of which is that the organization for which I work, the Internet Society, has a new CEO. More info at these links: http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-names-kathryn-c-brown-new-ceo http://www.internetsociety.org/meet-new-ceo http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society%E...

Recently Mitch Joel at TwistImage talked about why the content created by many companies is not being seen on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks: http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/almost-no-one-is-seeing-your-content/ In this episode I expanded upon this a bit to note that you have to remember that these companies are NOT the "open Internet" and are providing services based on their...

A trip today to a "big box" bookstore reminded me of the power of bookstores to help us discover authors and books... and overwhelmed me a bit in the process...

TDYR #058 - How Do iPhone GPS Running Apps Work On A Treadmill? by Dan York

Today was a hard day as a family member began her course of chemotherapy... in this episode I mostly voice my frustration with this beast that has affected so many lives. A written version: http://danyork.com/2014/01/cancer-the-scourge-that-keeps-on-taking.html

As has been my practice since 2010, my first blog post of the year was about certain words that I intend to be areas of focus in my personal life... the full post can be found here: http://danyork.com/2014/01/my-four-words-for-2014.html

TDYR #055 - On Remembering Those Who Are Struggling At This Time Of Year by Dan York

Some thoughts on the passing of Nelson Mandela and reflections on both my youth growing up in the 70s and 80s with apartheid a global issue and also my trip this past summer to South Africa for the first time. Links referenced in the episode include: https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-023-the-energy-of-africa https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-022-africa-straight-up http://www.virgin.com/richard...

Yesterday was an "IT day" where I had to take care of home office IT issues. Along the way I learned of a VERY cool tool for analyzing disk space usage on Mac OS X - and also got native IPv6 connectivity for my home network. Some links: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2013/12/going-native-ipv6-in-my-home-office/ http://www.spacegremlinapp.com/

Today is a great day to buy DRM-free ebooks on O'Reilly's website from a great range of publishers (not just O'Reilly) at 50% off or more. This includes two of my books: "Migrating Applications to IPv6" and "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks". More info at: http://migratingappstoipv6.com/2013/12/cyber-monday-50-or-more-off-migrating-apps-to-ipv6/ http://www.7ducattacks.com/2013/12/cyb...

TDYR #051 - Happy (U.S.) Thanksgiving - My Favorite Holiday by Dan York

TDYR #050 - Experiencing Podcasting Performance Anxiety by Dan York

TDYR #049 - In Houston, En Route Back To Boston by Dan York

TDYR #048 - Heading To Buenos Aires To Talk DNSSEC At ICANN 48 by Dan York

Today, November 11, is "Remembrance Day" in Canada and I reflect on how moving I find the ubiquitous poppy symbol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_poppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields