First Post

Hello again LoKT clients and friends. As many of you noticed, I ran into a few problems with the LoKT newsletter. It was very popular, but also very time consuming. As a practical matter too, sending out a monthly newsletter didn't transmit the full scope of information out that I thought was important. With the vast access to news and information that we all have now, the newsletter was also somewhat dated by the time it hit your inboxes. I struggled with coming up with a solution, and was resistant to the idea of a "blog." Maybe it's some sort of generational bias, but blogs seemed like a too-much-information-myspace sort of thing. Hardly the kind of place I wanted to update my clients and colleagues on what I thought was important about the telecom industry where we all are trying to make a living. But the more I though about it, the best way to accomplish my goals of keeping the information current and making it searchable on an archive basis was to host the information online somewhere. So, a blog it is. On this I will not be telling you what I had for breakfast or exhaustively detailing my opinions on the Boston Red Sox though. I hesitate to even call it a blog, as I expect the bulk of it will contain hard news/information. But I do intend to inject some of my opinions and a little analysis where it makes sense to do so. There may also be a little sarcasm or a nod to the unintended ironic humor that so often occurs in this industry. If I feel the need to go off on a rant, it will not be contained in the main section of the blog. There will be a separate page for that and some other categories that I'll develop over time. The idea of this blog is to provide information and be a resource for those working in the competitive telecommunications industry. If there's anything I can do to improve this blog, please let me know.