Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Hook and line, if not sinker

CZ Czwartacki couldn't resist what he accurately calls my "bait" of Verizon yesterday, wherein I gave his employer as an example of a company with no soul. We Got Your Soul Right Here!, he blogs.

It was the soul of this company that responded to the 9/11 attacks. We helped get the New York Stock Exchange and world financial markets on their feet by replacing a grid the size of Cincinnati in five days, and then bringing thousands of Verizon workers into lower Manhattan to get businesses humming and residences communicating again in the ensuing weeks. We achieved a telecommunications rebuild unlike anything ever seen before, and under horrendous circumstances. You can't do that without soul.

It is the DNA of this company that ensures your dial-tone is there 99.99% of the time, come ice storm, hurricane, or flood...

It is the vision of this company to do for the Internet what the internal combustion engine did for transportation — by bringing future-proof fiber optics right into millions of American homes...

No time to respond. Just to give CZ props for coming back at me with hard evidence. Thanks!

But look for more tonight or tomorrow. Needless to say, I have a LOT to say here, and highly welcome real dialog on a pile of important topix. Especially that last fiber optic one.

Gotta pod me one of these

Zoom H4. Thanks to Jim Thompson for the lead.

I was overheard to have thought...

Jeremiah Owgang has posted a video he shot of me at the Mobile Identity Workshop.

Jenny Attiyeh of ThoughtCast, whom I enjoyed meeting and hanging with this last week in Boston, has also posted a podcast interview, from this past Saturday. I still miss the hat in the photo.