RESPONSE: 3 Hidden Lessons Behind Top Podcasts to Help Yours Stand Out
Thoughts from the Content Marketing Institute for budding podcasters were shared here. Here’s my response to the points that stood out to me.
CMI’s big idea #1.
“At first, format trumps talent.” And then later…“Avoid the race to the bottom of simply booking the biggest guests in your niche and meandering through an unplanned episode. Instead, find your format.”
Response. To record an effective show people will listen to, you need a plan, agreed. However, the article cites an example of a 15 minute long episode carved into blocks of minutes and seconds.
Perhaps that’s what you need when working against an ultra-tight timeline. However, an outline that provides structure should be adequate. Overly structuring a podcast is burdensome and can serve to stifle interesting conversation. Freedom is one of the benefits of podcasting.
Podcasting is NOT a digital regurgitation of radio, although many try to shoehorn podcasts into a radio format, because the radio business is what they understand. However, podcast content is different. Distribution is different. Listener consumption is different. Monetization is different.
And perhaps most importantly, timelines are fluid. 15 minute long podcasts are being created under an artificial time constraint that begs the question…why?
On the other hand, Continue reading
Riverbed Expands Reach with Xirrus Deal
Riverbed acquires enterprise WiFi technology that it will integrate into its SD-WAN product.
Harman Uses Watson’s AI Capabilities for Voice-Controlled Devices
Harman is demonstrating the technology at IBM's Watson IoT headquarters in Munich.
Riverbed Acquires Xirrus to ‘Supercharge’ SD-WAN
Xirrus' access points provide Riverbed with data from the edge.
Amazon Web Services Embraces Container Networking
Currently, networking on AWS occurs at the host level, not at the container level.
HyTrust Helps Feds Meet Cloud Security Mandate
It's a 'Swiss Army Knife' for federal cloud security compliance.
ICSA Labs Certifies NSX Micro-segmentation Capabilities
VMware NSX has achieved ICSA labs Corporate Firewall Certification.
With the release of NSX for vSphere® 6.3, VMware has not only introduced several key security features such as Application Rule Manager and Endpoint Monitoring, which provide deep visibility into the application, and enable a rapid zero-trust deployment, but has also achieved Corporate Firewall Certification in independent testing performed by ICSA labs, a leading third-party testing and certification body and independent division of Verizon.
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3 has been tested against an industry-accepted standard to which a consortium of firewall vendors, end users and ICSA labs contributed, and met all the requirements in the Baseline and Corporate module of the ICSA Module Firewall Certification Criteria version 4.2.
NSX is the only true micro-segmentation platform to achieve ICSA Firewall certification — with the NSX Distributed Firewall providing kernel-based, distributed stateful firewalling, and the Edge Services Gateway providing services such as North-South firewalling, NAT, DHCP, VPN, load balancing and high availability. VMware NSX provides security controls aligned to the application and enables a Zero-Trust model, independent of network topology.
The ICSA Firewall Certification criteria focus on several key firewall aspects, including stateful services, logging and persistence. ICSA also validates Continue reading
IPv6 Extensions Are Already Dead
In this wiki entry disguised as a RFC 7872, “Observations on the Dropping of Packets with IPv6 Extension Headers in the Real World” highlights IPv6 Extension Headers are effectively unusable since internet providers are dropping IPv6 fragment and failing to support Extension Headers. In IPv6, an extension header is any header that follows the initial 40 […]
The post IPv6 Extensions Are Already Dead appeared first on EtherealMind.
Worth Reading: GraphQL
The post Worth Reading: GraphQL appeared first on rule 11 reader.