On Apr 12, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Paul WALL wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Richard Bennett <rich...@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
