The TalkRization of My Blog

The service is quite intuitive for a free one, and I must say I never actually got the time to run a podcast on my one, so TalkR seems like the perfect choice for those of you -- including me -- who want to listen to my blog posts. Here's the TalkR feed URL for you to syndicate, and several samples :

- Social Engineering and Malware
- The Life of a Security Threat
- Russia's Lawful Interception of Internet Communications
- Foreign Intelligence Services and U.S Technology Espionage
- Technical Analysis of the Skype Trojan
- Old Media VS New Media

By the way, when was the last time you met a girl who speaks stuff like this?

Old Media VS New Media

The never ending war of corporate interests between the old and the new media, seems to be re-emerging on a weekly basis. Obviously, newspapers don't really like Google picking up their content and making money without giving them any commissions -- they don't even have to -- and with more shortsighted local newspaper unions asking Google and Yahoo! to stop doing so, I'm so looking forward for the moment in the near future when we'll be discussing their will to get crawled again. You fear what you don't understand, and the old media doesn't like the way it got re-intermediated, thus losing its overhyped content generation exclusiveness. In a Web 2.0 world, everyone generates content, which later on gets mixed, re-mixed, syndicated and aggregated, what if newspapers really tried to adapt instead of denying the future? And isn't it ironic that the newspapers that want to be removed from any search engine's index, are later on using these search engines while investigating for their stories?

Here's a lengthy comment I recently made on the old media vs the new one.

PR Storm

Great to see that Mike Rothman and Bill Brenner know how to read between the lines. Here's a related point of view on the Storm Worm - Why do users still receive attachments they are not supposed to click on?

Meanwhile, Eric Lubow (Guardian Digital, Linuxsecurity.com) have recently joined the security blogosphere and I'll be keeping an eye on his blog for sure -- hope it's mutual. Two more rather fresh blogs worth reading are ITsecurity.com's one -- how's it going Kev -- and Panda Software's blog. And with PandaLabs now blogging, the number of anti virus vendors without a blog, namely still living in the press release world is getting smaller. I remember the last time I was responsible for writing press releases for a vendor I'd rather not associate myself with, and how Web 1.0 the whole practice was. If you really want to evolve from branding to communicating value, hire a blogger that's anticipating corporate citizenship given he's commissioned, and reboot your PR channels.