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Full story: FIR Interview: Jackie Mitchell, American Red Cross of Greater Chicago
The press release begins, "The American Red Cross is ‘burning’ people’s most precious memories to raise awareness about fire prevention during Red Cross Month. Home fires occur every eighty seconds in the United States, and the Red Cross responds to a fire every eight minutes nationwide. In less than 80 seconds, people can save lives […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #589: March 7, 2011
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; FIR Interview with the FT is up, Neville was at the FT Digital Media conference in London last week; Speakers & Speeches podcast with AEP’s William Amurgis is coming, upcoming FIR Interview with RealWire’s Adam Parker, FIR Book Review of Curation Nation is coming from Shel; IABC […]
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Full story: More experiments with QR codes
There’s a lot of experimenting going on these days with QR codes, those square images we see with increasing frequency on everyday items like utility bills, business cards, even building permits, and which you scan with your mobile device’s camera and a barcode-scanning app and which then lets you perform some kind of action or […]
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Full story: Get prepared with an IPv6 internet address
As you may have heard, the Internet is running out of space. Specifically, the addressing system known as the Internet Protocol or IP address that uniquely identifies every single device connected to the global network is close to maximum capacity in its IPv4 guise. Blame Vint Cerf, the man who invented IPv4 about 40 years […]