The Hierophant (Bloggers)
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 10:15am - 11:20am
Upright - Ritual and routine, religious guidance and authority, education in its formal sense. A seeker after knowledge and wisdom. Good sound advice, teaching and constructive counsel. Marriage, partnerships and morality.
Reversed - Misleading or dubious advice, poor counsel, slander and propaganda. Beware of first impressions. Distortion of truth and a bad time for signing agreements. Misleading advertisements. Unconventionality and rejection of family values.
What insights might the observers from the Blogsphere share with us about the intersection of technology and policy and where IP technology and policy are taking us?
Andy Abramson, Editor, VoIPWatch
With one foot in the media and another in the world of advertising and public relations, the Philadelphia native, who now resides in Del Mar, CA has rapidly become one of the foremost authorities on VoIP. Andy Abramson co-hosts the World Technology Roundup on KenRadio.com, writes VoIPWatch as well as authors a weekly wine column for the Del Mar Times. A former sports marketing and public relations executive with the Philadelphia Flyers, Denver Nuggets, Foote, Cone & Belding and The Upper Deck Company, since 1992 Abramson has operated Comunicano, Inc., a boutique advertising and public relations agency with an emphasis on both early stage and companies in transition. His VoIPWatch blog can be found at http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/
Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL Prime
Dave Burstein is editor of DSL Prime, the industry newsletter for DSL. He is also author of the book "DSL, a Wiley Tech Brief" published by John Wiley and Sons, and Chair of Fast Net Futures, now in its third year. Burstein consults on DSL strategies, technology, and telecom policy.
David Isenberg, Isen.com
David S. Isenberg spent 12 years at AT&T Bell Labs until his 1997 essay,"The Rise of the Stupid Network," was received with acclaim everywhere in the global telecommunications community with one exception -- at AT&T itself! So Isenberg left AT&T in 1998 to found isen.com, LLC (an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut) and to publish The SMART Letter, an open-minded commentary on the communications revolution and its enemies.
Om Malik, Editor, GIGAOM.com
In addition to maintaining a personal weblog of ruminations on broadband and its impact on our lives, Om Malik is a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine in San Francisco. He has been writing telecom and broadband related stories since joining Business 2.0 in April 2003. He also has two online columns, ConvergeSense and The Telecom Report, published twice a month on Business2.com. Previously, Malik was a senior writer for Red Herring, focusing on the telecommunications sector. He was also a senior editor on the founding team of Forbes.com. As a technology journalist and a brief tenure as a venture capitalist, Malik has witnessed and documented firsthand the rise and fall of the Internet and telecom industries. He graduated from St. Stephen's College in New Delhi with an honors degree in chemistry in 1986. http://www.gigaom.com/
Randolph May, Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies, The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Randolph J. May is Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies for The Progress & Freedom Foundation. From 1978 to 1981, Mr. May served as Assistant General Counsel and Associate General Counsel at the Federal Communication Commission, and subsequently practiced communications and administrative law before joining PFF in 1999. Presently, he is Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. Mr. May also was a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Mr. May writes regularly on regulatory affairs for Legal Times and the National Law Journal. Mr. May is an adjunct professor of law at George Mason University School of Law. He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Duke Law School, where he serves as a member of the Board of Visitors.
Stephen Smith, Chief Scientist, Lavalife
Steve Smith is Chief Scientist of Lavalife, a leader in consumer dating applications with internet, telephone, and mobile products. His role is to research and integrate advanced IP communication technologies into the company's consumer products and IT systems. He actively blogs about IP communications as “Steve’s Tech Journal.” Smith is an advisor to a number of high technology startups, including Talking Street, an innovator in voice and SMS, MMS, MP3 and streaming content delivery. He also serves on the board of the Global IP Alliance. Smith holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University, and in his early career founded Ampersand Inc., a system engineering firm.
