We Are Pleased To Announce...

Postings have been a bit sparse this week, not due to a lack of activity in the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry; here at Stroh Publications LLC, we've been busy behind the scenes. It's not just the readers that have gone wanting this past week- cats have gone unpetted, dogs have gone unwalked, rare winter sunlight in the Seattle area has gone un-enjoyed, and our office's reserves of good Tully's Coffee have taken a real beating. But all that has been well worth it!

As you might have noted on the sidebar (and, if you didn't please do, three new web sites are listed under the title "Other Stroh Publications LLC wireless sites". They are:

• Broadband Wireless Internet Access Books


• Broadband Wireless Internet Access Organizations


• Broadband Wireless Internet Access Vendors

Their titles should be self-explanatory. They are the first three new blogs... er, columns... er, sites of our new venture, Stroh Publications LLC (formal site for that coming real soon now :-). There will be a number of such sites that will gradually emerge in the coming weeks and months. A few, such as the these first three, will have relatively "static" content, and thus only updated periodically. The vast majority of the Stroh Publications LLC sites will be dynamic, with original content - definitely not the "Wow, look what the New York Times wrote about the latest corporate scandal [LINK]" postings of a typical blog.

The new sites have a much more clean and crisp appearance, with more useful tools offered in the sidebars. That is all thanks to TypePad, which is turning out to be a "dark side of the moon / bright side of the moon comparison with Blogger, the blogging platform that I've used for several years for the Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog. In fairness, it's the "old" Blogger that looks so old and tired and shabby in comparison to TypePad, but based in part to some bad experiences I've read about in converting from "old Blogger" to "new Blogger"... I'm going to pass. The Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog will (soon) be migrated to TypePad instead of "new Blogger" primarily because 1) I'm so delighted overall with the experience I'm having with TypePad as a serious, well-supported, stable blog production / hosting environment, and 2) the wonderful and easy-to-use MarsEdit offline weblog editor for Mac OS X doesn't currently support "new" Blogger. (It doesn't support all of the features of TypePad that I'd like it to, but it's more than good enough now to markedly improve my ability to blog.)

I have also updated the "Of Note" links on the sidebar (the only survivor of all the links that previously resided there); apologies to all whose links had gotten old, tired, or expired.

And Now For Something Completely Different
I probably use that phrase too much. Oh well... but this is a first on the Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog... our first YouTube clip! We are so proud! The next thing you know Stroh Publications LLC will have its own MySpace page. On second though... no.. we won't. On an only slightly more serious note... in this YouTube clip, Stephen Colbert really does explains the whole AT&T thing pretty well. It's certainly the most entertaining explanation of the tortured ancestry of Cingular, SBC, BellSouth, and now... what I've taken to calling the new, New, NEW AT&T that I've seen. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading the Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX weblog!

Steve Stroh, Editor / Analyst
Tina Stroh, Business Manager
Stroh Publications LLC

This article is Copyright © 2007 by Steve Stroh (except for the YouTube clip.)