On Apr 12, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> wrote:
One of the things I like about e-mail lists is learning things about myself that I never knew before, especially regarding my occupation. For the last 9 months or so I've been working part-time with a Washington think tank in an analyst capacity, not as a lobbyist, and not on the Comcast payroll.
You neglected to mention that the "think tank" (where I'm from in Houston, we call them lobbys) is funded by Comcast, among other big cable/telecom players.
In fairness to to the ITIF (his current employer), they're well-respected in their core area, studying innovation policy. I've seen some of the work done by Rob Atkinson (full disclosure: Rob is currently visiting my university giving a talk), and it's good. That said, I dislike strongly Richard's M.O. of trying to stir up hornets nests by playing the fool/troll in order to get NANOG and other venues to do his job for him, and I hope this statement doesn't come across as a defense of that. I've already plonked him. </off topic> -Dave