One of the areas I've worked in over the past few years has been economic development, specifically technology-based economic development in the rural Tennessee-Virginia border area.
During a multi-year stint launching a Chamber of Commerce small business initiative (KOSBE) and the launch of a non-metropolitan World Trade Center (MountainSouth WTC), I had the opportunity to work with Aneesh Chopra.
At that time, Aneesh was the CTO for the Commonwealth of Virginia, but he has since moved on to the national level. I was delighted to hear that he will be speaking at SUPERCOMM on the same day as my session.
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will deliver a keynote at SUPERCOMM 2009. Chopra--appointed by President Obama to "promote technological innovation to help achieve our most urgent priorities"--will deliver his vision of how broadband will transform the American economy on Day 2, Thursday, October 22, 2009.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Lease termination for not displaying pro Obama merchandise?
Wow, if this is true, our local mall is in a world of its own, forcing local entrepreneurs to display pro Obama merchandise along with best-selling anti-Obama merchandise: http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/News/print.php?ID=71327
Have sent the following email to the mall's management, requesting a reply:
Is it true, as stated in the JC Press and on WJHL Channel 11, that Graphic Edge's Mr. Fuchs was asked to display pro-Obama merchandise or risk termination?
Will report on what I hear back.
Have sent the following email to the mall's management, requesting a reply:
Is it true, as stated in the JC Press and on WJHL Channel 11, that Graphic Edge's Mr. Fuchs was asked to display pro-Obama merchandise or risk termination?
Will report on what I hear back.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Opportunity: SUPERCOMM Panel
[Update: plans have been finalized, so come see the panel if you're going to be at SUPERCOMM!]
SUPERCOMM, the show that was, then wasn't, but now is again, has apparently decided to host a panel of journalists and bloggers at its upcoming show. Earlier today, I got an invitation, which reads, in part:
I work with the SUPERCOMM team and the reason for my email is to invite you to participate as a panelist for a session we're programming for the show. The panel session comprised of journalists from business and trade publications as well as industry bloggers. If you're available, we would love to have you as a panelist.
The panel is slated to take place on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 PM Central Time.
Each panelist comes to the table with a strong voice and opinion on the state of broadband and broader industry issues, but also have varied perspectives given your key reader constituents. We anticipate a highly interactive, lively and thought-provoking discussion that will be blogged and tweeted about days, weeks and months following the show.
Still trying to figure out what kind of topic would be blogged and tweeted about for "days, weeks and months following the show" but perhaps one of the panelist will make a statement, like Jan Ozer did a few years ago ("MPEG-4 Is Dead") that will send the rest of us to our keyboards to counter the argument.
More on the session as the event approaches. Details on the SUPERCOMM 2009 show, which is back in Chicago, can be found here.
SUPERCOMM, the show that was, then wasn't, but now is again, has apparently decided to host a panel of journalists and bloggers at its upcoming show. Earlier today, I got an invitation, which reads, in part:
I work with the SUPERCOMM team and the reason for my email is to invite you to participate as a panelist for a session we're programming for the show. The panel session comprised of journalists from business and trade publications as well as industry bloggers. If you're available, we would love to have you as a panelist.
The panel is slated to take place on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 PM Central Time.
Each panelist comes to the table with a strong voice and opinion on the state of broadband and broader industry issues, but also have varied perspectives given your key reader constituents. We anticipate a highly interactive, lively and thought-provoking discussion that will be blogged and tweeted about days, weeks and months following the show.
Still trying to figure out what kind of topic would be blogged and tweeted about for "days, weeks and months following the show" but perhaps one of the panelist will make a statement, like Jan Ozer did a few years ago ("MPEG-4 Is Dead") that will send the rest of us to our keyboards to counter the argument.
More on the session as the event approaches. Details on the SUPERCOMM 2009 show, which is back in Chicago, can be found here.
Lured by Fox News . . .
Time, the weekly magazine whose parent company also owns CNN, is apparently upset about Glenn Beck.
Upset enough that it wants everyone to know, in a recent article, that he can't write ("he gets alot of help from his staff") and is making money ("the value of his Fox contract is reliably said to be about $2 million per year").
Yet, since CNN and Time are jointly owned, Time should be willing to reveal this fact to its readers.
"Lured by the Fox News Channel from CNN's Headline News channel last year, Beck has lit up the 5 p.m. slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers, drawing upwards of 3 million viewers on some recent days."
No mention at all about the relationship between Time and CNN in the quoted sentence, or anywhere else in the article.
Doing so might make Time suspect in its muckrakng against Beck. At the very least, this begs the question of conflict of interest. Worse, it appears Time is exercising payback against someone who left the CNN fold and has since trounced CNN in the ratings war.
Despite the way it accuses Beck of stirring up discord, the article leaps out of the Beck-bashing mire to a lofty final sentence designed to show Time is above the fray:
"If the time comes when every audience is screaming, who, in the end, is left to listen?"
Perhaps it's worth a moment of Time to reflect on the magazine's own conflicted screaming.
Upset enough that it wants everyone to know, in a recent article, that he can't write ("he gets alot of help from his staff") and is making money ("the value of his Fox contract is reliably said to be about $2 million per year").
Yet, since CNN and Time are jointly owned, Time should be willing to reveal this fact to its readers.
"Lured by the Fox News Channel from CNN's Headline News channel last year, Beck has lit up the 5 p.m. slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers, drawing upwards of 3 million viewers on some recent days."
No mention at all about the relationship between Time and CNN in the quoted sentence, or anywhere else in the article.
Doing so might make Time suspect in its muckrakng against Beck. At the very least, this begs the question of conflict of interest. Worse, it appears Time is exercising payback against someone who left the CNN fold and has since trounced CNN in the ratings war.
Despite the way it accuses Beck of stirring up discord, the article leaps out of the Beck-bashing mire to a lofty final sentence designed to show Time is above the fray:
"If the time comes when every audience is screaming, who, in the end, is left to listen?"
Perhaps it's worth a moment of Time to reflect on the magazine's own conflicted screaming.
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