I was fascinated by reactions by people to my waving at them from the side of the road today...

Netflix this week added the ability to download shows and movies and watch them offline. In this episode I talk about why I think this is so exciting...

Today is a great day to buy ebooks and videos at 50% from O'Reilly and associated publishers - http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16 . Two of my books are included in the sale: http://migratingappstoipv6.com/ and http://www.7ducattacks.com/ - the sale goes until Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 5:00am Pacific Time.

Some brief thoughts on the way home from Seoul, South Korea, where I was for IETF 97. This was recorded in Narita airport in Tokyo.

I am heading to Bucharest, Romania, to be part of the Internet Society's "ION Bucharest" conference on Wednesday, Oct 13. More info can be found at https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/

Want to join a global conversation about how we connect the unconnected, increase the level of trust in the Internet and advance appropriate Internet governance policies? That conversation is happening TODAY at InterCommunity 2016, happening ON the Internet - over 2,500 people from 160 countries joining in from wherever they are! You can see the agenda and join in at http://icomm16.internetsociety.org/ You can also follow the hashtag #iComm16 today on Twitter and other social networks.

I'm en route to Orlando, Florida, to speak at the ISC2 Security Congress over the next few days. In this episode I talk about my sessions, explain some of what the MANRS initiative is about, and talk about why DNS security is important.... and if you are also at the ISC2 Security Congress, please do say hello!

This week Facebook provided yet another reason to make sure your website is "mobile-friendly" - ads for sites that are NOT will be penalized in Facebook's advertising network. In this episode I talk about that and some of the resources available. Read more: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2016/09/facebook-says-get-your-site-mobile-friendly-or-your-ads-will-suffer.html

Facebook Messenger today launched "Instant Video", allowing you to add video to a text chat. In this episode I offer some initial thoughts about why this is interesting...

Read more: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2016/09/facebook-messengers-instant-video-lets-you-simultaneously-use-video-and-chat.html

What is the future of networking? And what did Greg Ferro think of the IETF 96 meeting in Berlin? In this episode I sat down with Greg Ferro of the Packet Pushers Podcast to get his views on the state of networking, what he thinks about attending his first IETF meeting and a wide variety of other topics. It was quite an enjoyable conversation...

For more info about Greg see http://packetpushers.net/ and http://etherealmind.com/