In 2010, I gave a talk about DDoS attacks in New York that bombed. The second I got to the slide that said who I am and what I do, people got downright hostile. Now I see speaking as an extension of being a good journalist. I should be able to talk to people about what I’ve learned as well as write about it, says B-Sides columnist John Sutter. Sutter: You CAN give a lousy talk and live to fight another day.”]

