* Gearhead: Hybrid VoIP telephony products * Backspin: The dog ate my messages * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Hybrid VoIP telephony products
Last week we confessed to a VoIP product backlog and we began to reduce the queue by looking at software-only, Session Inititation Protocol-based VoIP PBXs and adapters that let you use analog phones with a SIP-based service.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: The dog ate my messages
I have two quotes for you: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who will watch the watchers?), from Juvenal, a Roman poet, late first century B.C. to early second century B.C., and “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” from Lord Acton, a British historian (1834 to 1902).
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Boston Blocks Boing Boing
Here’s a headline to conjure with: “Mayor of Boston bans Boing Boing”.
Apparently some guy named Jake tried to access Boing Boing from Boston’s free WiFi network and got a page back that read “Access to This Webpage is Restricted”! The notice was “topped by the seal of the Mayor of Boston no less!”
Worst Tech Press Release of the Year (So Far)
Being in press relations is a tough job, no doubt about it. You are trying to get the attention of a lot of people who are suffering from data overload and have heard it all before. So, if you are a good PR person you up the ante. You try personal pitches, you try to capitalize on novelty, and, when the opportunity presents itself, you try to leverage current events.
The Emetrics Summit
[Corrected] Way back in 1994 I was a speaker at my good friend Jim Sterne’s first public event: “Marketing on the Internet.” It was an eight city tour with one day in each city and five speakers. Needless to say given the topic and the year the event was well ahead of its time.
The JEC Replies to “2007: The Year of Being Outraged?”
Back in January I wrote a Backspin column titled “2007: The Year of Being Outraged?” in which I took the IRS and the Joint Economic Committee to task for even considering taxing virtual earnings of the players of on-line games. In February I got a response from Dan Miller, Senior Economist, Republican Staff, Joint Economic Committee.
