last night, an inflection point

Mogulus » Channel » midtownbrews -- This is some breakthrough stuff, hosted by George from MeetTheBloggers and Susan and Betsey from I-Open at Webtego last night, while Gloria, Roger Bundy, and I were schmoozing with the lawyers at the Prosecutor's Ball (FKA the Bill Mason fundraiser) over at Harlan Diamond's Executive Caterers at Landerhaven. Watch as Dennis Althar prognosticates on the importance of WATER and BANDWIDTH as the primo assets of the future, replacing today's oil and yesterday's gold.

note the 300-mile radius, and then the 600

Knoxville - Oak Ridge Innovation Valley - East Tennessee Economic Development Agency--This regional promotion piece comes from an ad in the sidebar of Small Times, which I discovered because of Chris Varley's comment today on an Ohio ranking, and how Beautiful Ohio is being supplanted by Innovative Ohio. Note what the folks around Knoxville are thinking. We do some business down there, and we enjoy working with them a lot; they're upbeat and going places; they're very proud of their area. Maybe it's time to start building some bridges. Virtually. Actually. Physically, even though you can't fly there direct from CAK, yet.

Callahan's pizza run brings a community together: there's a meeting here tonight

Callahan’s Cleveland Diary » Blog Archive » Robbed at gunpoint--Heads up. There's a meeting around these parts tonight. Let our councilman [can you believe the size of the City Hall fonts? Where's the Tech Tsar?] tell you about it [emphasis mine]--

FYI – there will be a Crime & Safety meeting this Thursday, Jan. 25th at 7:00 pm at the Archwood UCC, which will be utilized to hopefully squelch rumors on the street relative to the murder on Riverside. These other crime trends will also be discussed. In addition, with assistance from the local development corp., the 2nd District Police and Huntington Bank, we’re holding a Brooklyn Centre Merchant’s meeting next Monday morning at 7:30 am at the Brooklyn Centnre Huntington Branch for area businesses to discuss crime trends in the commercial district (a few recent break-ins), as well as what more can be done to have businesses better coordinate safety strategies.

On the bright side, we saw Bill at the MTB session with Jim Rokakis last night, and he reports that the hoodied perps DID NOT take his pizza that fateful night.

I was trying to look at the positives of all this early this morning as I took out the rubbish and shoveled the drive and the walk, and the only thing that occurred to me was to be thankful that my mittens had a trigger finger.

I'm sure we'll come up with more and more positives at the meeting tonight.

time to get that huge monitor

Netflix to Deliver Movies to the PC - New York Times --Once again, Netflix is out ahead of the pack, and we all stand to benefit.

“We’ve gotten used to it,” Netflix’s chief executive, Reed Hastings, said of the doomsday predictions. But Mr. Hastings also said he understood why questions about his business kept coming up. “Because DVD is not a hundred-year format, people wonder what will Netflix’s second act be.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Hastings will begin to answer that question. Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to users’ PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video, which is not retained in computer memory. The service, which is free to Netflix subscribers, is meant to give the company a toehold in the embryonic world of Internet movie distribution.