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February 16, 2007
Everyone has those zany moments at work when they say – hey this is like a Dilbert cartoon. C’mon, be honest. You know I am talking about you. I even know a coworker who says he wants to turn the daily events at TMC into a TV show. Well as we know with the success of the sitcom, Just Shoot Me, publishing companies can make for great comedic programming. Ditto for Mary Tyler Moore – “Ohh Mister Grahhnt.”
But what if someone was to make a satirical airline show? Let’s say Airplane – but not the movie but a new series. I would imagine an episode where passengers begin the boarding process and a few minutes into the boarding the gate agent abruptly says, everyone please refrain from boarding there is no pilot on the airplane.
Then passengers are asked to go and sit down and wait for a new pilot to arrive from Indianapolis – a 2 hour wait.
This could be really funny and show off how incompetent the management of the airline was. I would laugh at such programming – really I would.
Of course my concern would be the believability of it all. After all, how could you board a plane with no pilot – right? Could never happen – right?
If you saw such an experience you would really be in a state of disbelief – perhaps the same state my fellow passengers and I are right now at O’Hare airport where this situation is actually playing out. This is funny – very funny. I am laughing so hard I am crying. :)
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February 16, 2007
Comcast is raising rates as you can see from this
article. More interesting is this quote from the article:
"One conclusion that is easy to reach is that this market is in desperate need of competition," FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said at the time.
Looking at the telecom industry many think the FCC is in the pockets of the ILECs and is allowing consolidation at the expense of thousands of CLECs and other competitive players. I wonder if the FCC just has blinders on and is just looking to build the most powerful cable competitors possible.
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February 16, 2007
I am heading home from speating at the Mitel Presence event and was surprised that most people in the audience had been in telecom for 20 years or more. Lots of very loyal Mitel people were in the room based on the questions I heard. Overall my trip was great and filling in for Sir Terry Mattews is obviously difficult to do. Of course I had fun trying.
The interesting thing is I was hoping to mirror what Terry does at these presentations so I asked friend Neal Schact who attended the Minnesota event about what Terry said in his presentation. Neal told me Terry started by telling the audience how he made his first billion dollars.
It was at this point I decided I better have a plan B. :)
So here I am on a flight back home and I am teribly bored. I have been reading everything in sight. I will now see if I can get some serious writing done on my laptop.
Hope you are having a great weekend.
Blogged via wireless handheld
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