Travel Diary: Satellites, Optics and More

Posted by on Apr 15, 2023 It’s been a while since I’ve travelled for business. Last month, three events aligned in one week. I hit two of them: Satellite 2023 in Washington, DC, and the NTT Upgrade 2023 event in San Francisco. The closest I came to Light Reading’s Cable Next-Gen was a layover at the Denver International Airport. Sorry to have missed it. After checking in at Satellite 2023, I did a quick tour of the...
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Hitting Targets at IBC

Posted by on Nov 15, 2019 Trade journalists will tell you that covering an industry show can be a nightmare. Attending sessions, making booth appointments, writing a show daily – it’s all enough to drive you batty. Since launching this business in 2010, I have had no need to attend shows as a full-time journalist. On occasion, however, I have agreed to help friends who have that role. I did that in September 2019 at IBC...
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What Makes Craft Beer and Tech a Good Fit?

Posted by on Jun 20, 2019 Craft beer is on the agenda at the Richmond Technology Council (aka RVATech). This year the regional business association began billing its “Tech on Tap” events as a part of a “brewery tour.” The third of four separate events was held June 19 (Juneteenth!) at Väsen Brewing Company. The sponsor: Dynatrace, a global company specializing in application performance monitoring and enterprise cloud...
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Conference Panel Participants: Take Note

Posted by on May 23, 2019 Not everyone in a given industry goes to trade shows or industry gatherings. Among those who do, only a subset attend sessions or panel discussions. Fewer still actually participate on those conference panels. If you are among those who serve as panelists or maybe offer PR advice to those who do, read on. Having been a trade journalist myself, I’ve attended many of these sessions. (And still...
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Blockchain: Beyond Hype and Toward Wider Use

Posted by on Feb 5, 2019 Over the past year, blockchain began coming into its own. It remains the foundation of digital currencies, but is now more widely diffused, independent and less subject to inflated expectations than it was at the start of 2018. Many industries are now looking into the distributed ledger technologies once exclusively associated with cryptocurrency. In a lecture I heard last April sponsored by...
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A Tech Writer Can Really Help Out in this Situation

Posted by on Dec 14, 2018 In my past few posts, I’ve written on network virtualization, CBRS and DOCSIS, topics I heard discussed at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tech Expo. As a tech writer, that’s just part of what I do. For several years, I’ve also played another role upfront, helping companies that attend Expo convert their accepted abstracts into finished conference papers. The SCTE receives many more proposals...
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