by jnelson | Jul 12, 2014 | Interesting Items
It should come as no surprise that there are a lot of interesting, intelligent people in this area. They’re busy doing some amazingly creative things, which could often use some support. Many of these clever, talented people are members of Southwest Cyberport...
by jnelson | May 29, 2014 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News
Almost a year after his name first surfaced in connection with the NSA leaks, Edward Snowden has finally been heard in an interview on American network television. It has not been an easy go. All that time, Snowden has been a man publicly reviled in near-Orwellian...
by jnelson | Apr 24, 2014 | Events, News, Warnings
One of the key principles determining how the Internet operates is in danger. And it may disappear altogether if big corporations and the Federal Communications Commission have their way. The result could turn the information superhighway into a toll road, where...
by jnelson | Mar 12, 2014 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
Along with Southwest Cyberport’s Twentieth Anniversary, there’s another important one this March, one which made our birthday and so much else possible: that of the Web itself. The World Wide Web was first proposed in March of 1989. Tim Berners-Lee, a...
by jnelson | Oct 9, 2013 | How the Net Works, News, Security, Warnings
Since this summer, a number of disturbing news reports have come out that highlight the amount of ongoing surveillance of the Internet by the National Security Agency. Mainly due to leaks to leaks from former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, these have outlined a huge...
by Mark Costlow | Sep 13, 2013 | Events, wordpress
I’m excited to be giving a talk at WordCamp Albuquerque 2013! It’s on Saturday Sep 14 at 1pm, called “DNS and WordPress Site Migration”. It will cover some of the ins-and-outs of DNS that make it tricky to move a web site or change a...
