Professor of Nautical History from Dward Farquard International University, Phil Wilson, helps us all understand the distinctions of the phrase, “8 Bells” which you can learn about here as well as find out more about his curated painting above here.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Watch Out by Matt Thorpe. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- 75F wins regional entrepreneurial competition
- North Dakota investors back Eagan marketing-tech startup Buzz360
- Minnesota firm using 3-D printing to customize cremation urns
- Optum’s SnapVet venture brings online diagnosis to pets
Other Top Stories
- Secretive, unblockable Verizon perma-cookies kick up privacy concerns
- Apple
- FCC close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on back-end, while still allowing fast lanes
- Amazon Announces New Streaming Device, Fire TV Stick
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- Be careful of using Drupal websites, especially ecommerce or where you input sensitive information, for the next several weeks! Though no guarantee, use a free Drupal Version Check tool to see if the Drupal 7 version is at 7.32 or higher:
- BBC News – Millions of websites hit by Drupal hack attack
- Forbes: Did Drupal Drop The Ball?
- Drupal’s “highly critical” public service announcement about a major breach compromising Drupal 7 websites
- Drupal sites, assume you’ve been hacked
- Acquia’s Response to the October 15 Drupal Security Alert
- Acquia blog: Shield’s Up!
- Drupal Version Check
- Use one to check for 7.32 or higher: Firefox; Chrome; or Web version
- BuiltWith (Check sites to see what’s used to build and extend them. Extensions & integrations for popular browsers and software is here)
Top content management systems (CMS) for the entire internet (WordPress is at 47.38% and Drupal is at 2.74%) and top 20 CMSs for the top: 10,000; 100,000; million; and the entire internet’s compliment of websites. (CMS Usage Statistics at BuiltWith).
Cool Thing of the Week
Phil: App Day with TechnovationMN, Nov. 1
Tim: Microsoft Band
Graeme: i-Blason® “Transformer” iPhone 6 Plus Case
Steve: Google InBox & Mashable’s video on ‘why inbox’ from Google leadership
Upcoming Events
- Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
- MHTA’s Tekne Awards, Nov 13th
- MobCon: Where Mobile Minds Connect, Nov 13-14th, Hyatt, Mpls
- December
- TIES 2014 Education Technology Conference, December 6th
2015 Events
- March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
- April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015
Like the women at the 
Tim’s “Cool Thing of the Week” inspired this week’s show name and image, but we had a lot more interesting stories to cover and did. Some serious, some not so much.
Our special guest host this week is ace tech reporter, author and a man not bashful about his love of gadgets and scifi, Julio Ojeda-Zapata. Fortunately Julio has little need for his fedora and press pass…or does he?
We have much to discuss this week but probably the biggest story is the meltdown of 
The biggest story of the past week surrounds Comcast/Xfinity and their merger with Time Warner Cable. Will this place the combined company in a position to wield unprecedented control over the internet pipe in to our homes and businesses?
Don’t panic! Comcast’s Xfinity is setting up home Wifi routers to let the public use your data connection but everything will be OK. In addition, NBC is scaring any-and-all Sochi Olympics attendees to think that, if they even turn on their smartphone or computer and connect to Wifi, they will be instantly hacked. Should you worry?
