GeezerCast

I know, it’s a weird combination of topics, but I’m taking a breather from writing Broadband Task Force report-drafts and that’s what’s caught my fancy.

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Marcie and I are off to fight prairie-invaders today so there’s a little about that, and then there’s commentary about Al Franken’s arrival as our second Senator (with a dash of Sarah Palen).

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A quick Geezercast to settle me in to the new Vista/Mac world after a month of computer transition.  Kids graduating from college and etc. are featured in this one.

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Dang.  The economy isn’t getting better.  A few reflections for the unborn grandchildren about where we’re at, where we’re going and the fact that life goes on.

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Ah. At last we got some snow and I finally have the perfect snow plow for the (three-quarter mile) driveway at the farm. I also rant a little about Richard’s tires.

But mostly I talk about a duck… And how this duck that I got from my granddad is something that I should describe to future generations, along with other important “stuff” so that people can carry the stories of these things on into the future. So the stories don’t get lost, and with them the real value of the otherwise ordinary things that we pass on to future generations. I think us digital kids are the first generation to be able to do this, but I bet that this is a tradition that’s carried forward.

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And here’s a picture of the duck (along with the screen showing this Geezercast in the making).

Rich pulled a boomerang fish act and headed back to Northland College after two miserable weeks at George Washington University. I think he did the right thing and spend this Geezercast exploring the difference between a good decision and a bad outcome (along with embarrassing Richard all to heck, which is my duty as a parent). Along the way I talk about sunk costs, “Blink” and why I think sometimes we put too much emphasis on “toughing it out” when in fact you shouldn’t — a lesson that applies to business as well as personal decisions.

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This is a longer-than-normal GeezerCast ’cause I’m trying to encapsulate why I’m not keen on municipal WiFi projects and I couldn’t quite fit it into the normal 10 minute slot.

One of the things that has me bugged is that these projects don’t look like they’ll ever make money. I went so far as to post a financial model out there on the ‘net. Let’s do a little open-source financial modeling here and get these numbers out into the light of day instead of in the heads of the Voodoo consultants who are making lots of money walking cities down the primrose path.

If you don’t like my (wildly unprofitable) model, fix it! I’d love to be proven wrong — but right now it looks to me like we’re not solving the digital divide, we’re distracting ourselves from the real issue of open-access networks, and we’re putting cities on the hook for some very expensive project failures down the line.

So there!

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It may not last, but I’ve decided to try doing a video version of Geezercast along with the audio version. This one’s about time-machines, the hassles of video blogging, a great speech by Salt Lake City Mayor Anderson plus a few other odds and ends.

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And here’s the link to the Youtube-video version of this podcast

Poor old Geezercast is getting neglected. Like many podcasters, the pace has been slowing for me as I get distracted by other projects (both for most-revered clients and projects of my own).

The latest is bringing up a domain-name registry for Corp.com — which has consumed so much of my spare time the last couple weeks that I haven’t even had time to work on the winter woodworking project. I decided to bring up a blog for Corp.com, and last weekend I put together an inaugural podcast about it.

I decided to crosspost that podcast here for you unborn grandchildren to listen to because this is my first entepreneurial project since starting this podcast. I start things all the time, most of the companies flop but every once in a while they work. I thought you might be interested in reading/listening about doing another startup as I go.

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