Robert S Tanner

The FCC is holding the first of a series of over 20 workshops on broadband matters (part of its work to deliver a national plan on broadband to Congress in February 2010).  Today's workshop is on the subject of E-Gov and civic engagement.

 

The FCC is making strides on using new technology -- the workshop is being streamed with web-x allowing anyone with an Internet connection to participate via VoIP/Video and chat.  The event is also being streamed into Second Life (although I'm not sure how interactive that will be).  I'm using the web-x stream right now and it's working great.

A quick update on recent activities:  I caught a good chunk of this year's edition of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) conference (held at George Mason Law School).  Some interesting papers were presented that I'm still reading my way through. Even more recently I was able to attend an event at the National Archives where Tom Wheeler talked wi

The lawyer networking site Avvo.com must not be getting that much traffic yet as I was listed as #5 on the Avvo Blog's "Top 10 Lawyers Viewed Last Week" post. It's just kind of odd really.

I haven't done anything personally with the new AVVO Lawyer listing website but I did get an email from them notifying me that I could merge my various profiles there (they set up initial profiles based on Bar memberships - since I've been a member of 3 different state bar associations there were three separate profiles for me) so I went ahead and did that. Apparently, all of me combined equals 6.3 on the AVVO scale.

It's been interesting to see social networking sites evolve across the intertubes. Most of the attention goes to the biggest ones like Youtube, MySpace and Facebook but there's countless niche sites making a go of it. I just discovered one called Avvo that focuses on lawyers. Actually it's not clear how much of a "social" networking site it's going to be - it seems to be very focused on providing "rankings" - presumably to assist consumers with making decisions on acquiring legal services.