FCC Blogs, Twitters on Broadband
Genachowski, Levin Are First to Weigh In
by John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 8/18/2009 12:22:28 PM
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new "blogband" initiative, http://blog.broadband.gov/ to "chronicle the national broadband plan," with broadband czar Blair Levin and chairman Julius Genachowski its first two contributors.
There will also be a Twitter feed to o follow the plan's progress.
"What better time to start
blogging than now? With just 183 days before our deadline to send the National
Bro
adband Plan to Congress, we need as many people involved as possible," wrote
Genachowski on the Blogband site. "As this blog demonstrates, the Internet
is changing and expanding the way Americans communicate, providing them with
unparalleled access to information."
In his posting, Levin looked for
portents of success, or at last confirmation of the FCC's approach to the plan,
in a couple of fortune cookies staffers had opened during a din
ner break:
"No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking" and
"statistics are no substitute for judgement."
"[D]ata means nothing if we don't exercise good judgment about what it all means," said Levin, "But that will require sustained thinking, and our broadband team is leading an assault of sustained thinking by the entire FCC on the stubborn problem of bringing broadband to unserved and underserved areas, increasing the number of Americans using broadband, and maximizing how broadband can be used to help address significant national issues. Expect the unexpected. Nothing is pre-baked but the fortune cookies."
The FCC will also keep the twitterati up to date at http://www.twitter.com/fccdotgov, a new microblogging platform that will include progress reports on the plan. It had four followers at deadline, though the commission wasn't following anyone.No related content found.
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