The Dan York Report

In this episode I talk about why I am in Durban, South Africa, this week (ICANN 47 and Africa DNS Forum) and some initial thoughts about Durban. More thoughts on Africa to come in future episodes...

When you use a URL in a marketing campaign or for an event or other short-time occurrence, are you planning for the longevity of those URLs? Are you planning to keep it around after the event or campaign is over?

In the fast-paced, always-on world of today, how do we carve out time when we disconnect and reflect on how pieces fit together? Do we need to go completely offline, as Baratunde Thurston recently did for 25 days? Do we need to schedule in some time in our regular week? (Or do we not need to?) What do you find works for you?

Today, July 1, is Canada Day, a national day of celebration in that country. In this brief episode I record a few brief thoughts about the five years we spent in Canada and the effect it has had on my life - and wish all Canadians a very happy Canada Day!

Today I logged into Facebook and found that I had the hashtag support that was announced last week. In this episode I talk about that support and what I find interesting and useful in the new support.

When a media site substantially changes a story published on their web site, what is their responsibility to let the readers know? And do we as readers view stories on media sites as "done" or as "works-in-progress" that are updated and changed? This came up in the context of the NSA PRISM story when the Washington Post rather massively changed their lead story on the issue, as chronicled by Ed Bo...

Today the tech community's productivity will take a dive as eyes focus on what happens at the Keynote of Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) happening at 10am US Pacific / 1pm US Eastern. With Apple's maniacal focus on secrecy, they are extremely successful in building anticipation. A few things are believed to be known... but how accurate are the rumors? For the first time I can remembe...

Today there is an enormous amount of outrage and anger out on the Internet about revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) apparently has connections into 9 major Internet companies and has also been receiving all "metadata" about phone calls. The reality is that we as a country granted the NSA and other intelligence agencies broad sweeping powers of electronic surveillance in Octob...

Today is the 1-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch - what has changed in the year since with IPv6 growth? And why should you care, anyway? Today I discussed all that... http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/blog/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ http://www.internetsociety.or...

An ever-present challenge in our world of social networks is how to NOT get sucked into those networks when it is so incredibly easy to do so. How do we maintain the discipline to embrace those networks when we have the time - but to not get sucked in when we really should be doing something else? I talk about a couple of steps I've taken... I'm also very curious to hear *your* ideas. :-)

Do we really need to be assigning telephone numbers to smart meters, cars and e-readers? Could we instead use some other application-layer identifier? If so, what? And how? In this episode I talk about some of the issues around moving beyond phone numbers, both why we might want to and also what some of the challenges are. More info can be found in this post: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/201...

After my recent post about the integration of Google Voice and Google+ Hangouts, I received a good bit of feedback. In this episode I talk about some of that feedback and further thoughts about this integration. You can read more at: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2013/05/further-thoughts-on-the-google-voice-google-hangouts-integration.html

This past week Google made several changes that are part of their ongoing disruption of telecommunication. First, they announced at Google I/O that they were unifying their various real-time communications services (Google Voice, GoogleTalk, Google Messenger, Google+ Hangouts) under the "Hangouts" brand - and they also announced two "Hangouts" apps for iOS and Android, marking Google's entrance in...

The horrific tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday was another example of where the Internet can play a powerful role in helping organize efforts in the face of a crisis. Here are some of the links I mention in the episode: http://www.humanityroad.org/situation-report https://moore.recovers.org/ http://google.org/crisismap/2013-oklahoma-tornado https://www.facebook.com/cityofmoore https://twitter....

Some reflections and thoughts about travel in Ireland and in particular the Galway region. I was in Ireland in May 2013 to attend a conference in Dublin and then spent 4 more days exploring the country with my wife.

This week I have been in Dublin, Ireland, at the DNS-OARC and RIPE66 meetings meeting people and talking all about IPv6 and DNS / DNSSEC. It has been a great week and this is a quick report from the site. You can get the slides and archives from: http://www.dns-oarc.net/ http://ripe66.ripe.net/

SoundCloud has rolled out a new release of their iOS app that will, in theory, auto-publish a link to your sound to Google+ after you configure it. This is interesting because Google has so far only allowed a very few applications to connect directly into Google+ to share information. (Having said all this, this first episode after configuring Google+ sharing failed to post to Google+ with an "Oop...

One year after going DRM-free for their ebooks, Tor Books reports that they have "seen no discernible increase in piracy". In this episode I talk about why that is important, how DRM is anti-consumer and as an author and reader why I prefer DRM-free titles. More: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/tor-books-uk-drm-free-one-year-later Commentary: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/22322922899/...

The entire country of Syria went offline on May 7-8, 2013, for about 19-20 hours. What can we learn from this event? http://www.renesys.com/blog/2013/05/syrian-internet-fragility.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/08/how-did-syria-cut-off-the-entire-country-from-the-internet/ http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/05/07/breaking-news-traffic-from-syria-disappears-from-internet/...

TDYR #002 - On The Incredible Importance Of Owning Your Online Platform by Dan York

The Dan York Report Episode #1: Intro To The Show, And - Could You Go Off The Internet For A Year? by Dan York

Of iPhones, WiFI Networks... And Forgotten Hotels by Dan York

On Running In Beijing - And Other Initial Thoughts by Dan York

On Reclaiming The Original Positive Meaning Of "Hacker" by Dan York

Heading To Beijing For ICANN 46 by Dan York