Ry, re: Internet Telephony Magazine...
If I didn't use a ton of self-restraint, I would wind up spending more time rebutting articles and editorial opinions in that magazine and others like it, than I spend pontificating [sorry about that] and tome-ing, here on SI.
While I enjoy reading these new paradigm magazines, many of the kids on the payrolls there are just spewing out tons of foo foo half of the time, with their new-found editorial license to spill.
Don't always believe that you've got to be a kid in order to "get" it. While some of the younger folks on my staff (even some of the high school interns I've had during summer breaks) have been indispensible for their novel ideas and approaches, because the "got" it, many of the other ones I've come across (especially in trade rags and on web sites) are off into another planetary system, feeling very smug with such a notion, because they are repeatedly reminded that they get it.
The Titanic comes to mind here, for some reason. And there are plenty of ex-startups which were once led by such digirati that have already met with the harsh realities of playing in the big leagues, to prove my point. Eupemistically, they were "absorbed." In reality, they could have never made it to the next level.
The entire paradigm doesn't know what it wants yet, and yet, they demand it. There is a Yogi Berraism to this effect somewhere, I think. And maybe that's why I find reading them so intriguing. Sorting out their differences is instructive in itself, I find. Some day they will get it straight. Maybe when their own kids grow up to show them the way.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
