Publishing

Can I auto-post to Mastodon?
I’m reposting this article as part of my tests of auto-posting. In other words, my first attempt wasn’t exactly a success. It appears that I didn’t get my cron working correctly. Like ...

Mastodon
Like lots of other people, I’m looking at Mastodon as a newer, better tech-social community. I’m trying to auto-post from this site to a Mastodon ID, and I have a separate Mastodon ...

Writing Nonfiction with ADHD
This post is inspired by Tessa Flattum’s post, “How to Write a Novel with ADHD.” I self-diagnosed my own ADHD after my son was diagnosed as a child. I’ve written three technical ...

Cybersecurity Woes, Lax Patching Puts Media Companies At Risk
The secure production, distribution and management of media is being threatened by a complex, fragmented third-party ecosystem leaving the media industry exposed to potential cybersecurity threats, a survey by BlueVoyant found. The report ...

How we made the DE:CODED podcast
When we chose to make a podcast we knew we would have a lot to learn… This is how we made the DE:CODED podcast At the end of 2020 we decided to create ...

How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive
Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms -- particularly news publishers -- that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the ...

Going Beyond Advertising: Revenue Diversification in Publishing
The pandemic has had a profound short-term effect on publishers around the world -- a jump in readership somewhat dampened by disappearing advertising revenue. In many media firms, the digital channel has ...

The Publishing Industry — Where to Now?
Many of us have spent far more time at home looking at screens to keep up to date with the world than would have seemed possible at the start of the year ...
About …
Cryptosmith Institute is a retirement-time enterprise of Dr. Rick Smith, author of Elementary Information Security (Jones and Bartlett, 2011, 2015), Internet Cryptography (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Authentication: From Passwords to Public Keys (Addison-Wesley, ...

Book Review: How to be a modern scientist by @jtleek i.e. Jeffrey Leek
In the introduction to the Data Science world, one needs to build the right frame surrounding the topic. This is usually done via a set of straight to the point books that ...