by David | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m done with my training sessions for journalists in Kazakhstan, and this trip really stretched the boundaries of my knowledge. These are the issues that I was asked to address: 1. DDoS attacks that rival anything else in the world, taking down any journalist...
by David | Oct 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
It seems that more and more blogging services are turning on to the fact that most blogging input templates are pretty damn annoying. I say this as an advocate for the medium. I also speak as one who has seen hours of work evaporate as the interface crashed, or...
by David | Oct 17, 2009 | new media
This is the last class I taught in Astana – they were very engaged with the idea of moving from traditional media to “New Media,” particularly with blogging. The main question on everyone’s mind was “How do I drive more traffic to my...
by David | Oct 16, 2009 | Vastness
I got a real lesson in why the Huns, Tatars & Golden Horde were both nomads & ferocious warriors today. The plane flight from Astana the Gleaming to Almaty the Ancient took me over an incredible stretch of flat, brown steppe. I looked down on this from the...
by David | Oct 16, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense
(In Forrest Gump voice: “We are not related.”) I guess I shouldn’t squeak too much about this: it has the words “Lust” and “LaFontaine” in it, so it’s gotta be good, right?
