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Cricket Brought Dave

August 16, 2010

Tonight starting at 10:30 PM Cricket streamed the Mile High Music Festival. 2.5 hours later, Dave Matthews Band is still jamming with a mix of crowd favorites (like Two Step, Ants Marching and Jimi Things) and songs that they don't play often. Tim Reynolds was strumming guitar. I saw DMB live a couple weeks ago in Tampa. My third time and it was the best. They are really having fun as they complete their final tour for a while (they are taking all of 2012 off).

When they are having fun, the crowd is having a blast. Translated: When your employees are enjoying life, so are your Customers!

Cricket did some smart sponsoring on this one!

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Never Vote Incumbent

July 12, 2010

As long as I am ranting, I figured I would hit on Incumbents. I don't mean the ILEC's, although most of them don't care a wit about their customers. I'm talking about career politicians. We breed them in the US like a rare dog.

Think about this: Why would someone spend $24 million to be governor?

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Seriously, More iPhone

July 12, 2010

This country has some major issues not the least of which the media gets bogged done in buzz marketing. Why else would there be a week's worth of "news" about LeBron leaving Cleveland for Miami. A week! That's almost more coverage than we give to any of the folloeing:

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The Green Zone Inside Out

July 7, 2010

[Just a warning: This is a Rant, so you can skip it if you want.]

I just finished reading Barry Eisler's book, Inside Out. Eisler used to work for the CIA. Page 301: "Number 1, the country is run by corporate interests.

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This is not a Phone Booth

April 21, 2010

This is not a phone booth. It's a car. Try driving without using your cell phone.

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Brain Drain and TBTF

March 29, 2010

This is about tech in general and very specific to my current location. Kind of a rant.

There was an article in the St. Pete Times about the Tampa Bay Technology Forum working on a state-wide initiative. State-wide?

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A Message from the Fellows

March 10, 2010

I attended the University of Tampa Fellows Forum this morning. Verizon was the presenting sponsor so I got to listen to Michelle Robinson, President, Southeast Region, Verizon, gush about how wonderful VZ is. Point of order, Michhelle. You said that VZ gave a whopping $2M to charity in Florida in 2009.

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Blind Items

March 4, 2010

Some buzz I picked up at the Channel Partners Expo.

What company is working on a certification program for its agents?

A company is going to be giving a big surprise DEMO later this month.

Merger rumors were active at the show. Who will buy Deltacom? What will happen to Qwest?

One CLEC has an agent agreement issue, which is why it isn't getting much traction right now.

There is one carrier selling IPv6 at such a low rate, even Cogent is jealous.

One long-haul carrier is offering waves for less than a cup of jow per meg.

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What Matters Now

December 16, 2009

Seth Godin released a free e-book titled What Matters Now. It is a collection of thoughts from many folks. Rich and I didn't get tagged to submit, but I'm following Seth's advice to add my thoughts here.

Seth begins by writing:

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Whitacre Running GM

June 9, 2009

Former SBC chief Ed Whitacre is going to be the next Chairman of GM. Huh? According to Bloomberg, Whitacre is doing his patriotic duty and loves the challenge. Rich Tehrani thinks that Whitacre was a strategist.

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