Long notes that he’s not a perfect man and he never claimed to be, but he is not the man being portrayed on TV. He promises to fight the charges.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Bishop Eddie Long Will Fight Sex Abuse Claims - by Davey D
Long notes that he’s not a perfect man and he never claimed to be, but he is not the man being portrayed on TV. He promises to fight the charges.
99er Gregg Rosen appears on Fox News
The 99er known to many as Mr G from his BlogTalk radio show Unemployment Roundtable, appeared yesterday on the Fox News channel.
Gregg Rosen is well known for his unique take on the nuts & bolts facts and figures on how the economic crisis is only made worse by not passing a Tier 5 for all states.
Gregg Rosen, Co-Founder of The American 99'ers Union discusses the macroeconomic benefits of extending unemployment insurance with Julie Banderas on the Fox News program "America's News HQ". Original Air Date 9/25/10 See video below:
Atlanta Falcons Defeat New Orleans Saints In Overtime
The Falcons overcame Saints Quaterback Drew Brees' 30 of 38 for 365 yards passing and Falcons Quarterback Matt Ryan was hot when behind, posting a 147.5 ratings according to ESPN.com. Finally, Falcons' Kicker Matt Bryant hit from 46 yards out to give Atlanta the win.
What's more impressive about the Falcons win is it came at the New Orleans Superdome. The Saints at-home record now stands at .500 with three games completed in the season as of this writing.
The difference? Turnovers and offense. New Orleans has three of them; Atlanta had just one. Moreover, the Falcons gained 417 total yards versus 398 for the Saints.
This was a key early game for the NFC South; the winner would gain the upper hand in the 2010 playoff race. Now, New Orleans has to win at Atlanta if it expects to win the division.
Yahoo's Carol Bartz With Twitter's Ev Williams, Biz Stone
In this photo from Twitter on Flickr, we have Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz With Twitter's Founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone.
Now, judging from the fact that Ev's holding a mic and crossing his right leg, can we conclude he's imitating TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington's infamous interview of Bartz at TechCrunch Disrupt, New York?
At any rate, there's no word of what the three talked about while at Twitter Headquarters. But Bartz was reported to have said this :
"Failure is good - it gets you scared enough to change."
True. But won wonders in what context the sentence was made? Since Bartz' visit was around the time the Tech World crapped on her via Twitter, one can make some assumptions.
As a related aside, Yahoo has so many freaking users, it should reform itself into a Facebook-style social network as a way of tying together all of that content flotsam it's got. That would end the crits about Yahoo not knowing what it is.
ESPN's Lou Holtz Has Picked Against Notre Dame, Darren Rovell
Wondering if any1 can come up with this piece of data: Has Lou Holtz EVER picked against ND?
6:33 PM Sep 24th via web
Coach Lou Holtz, the last Notre Dame coach to lead the Fighting Irish to a national championship in college football, has been an ESPN homer for Golden Domers, even picking Notre Dame to win the BCS title last year. (Of course, that didn't happen.)
In fact Holtz makes ND a pick so much and has sparred with fellow ESPN Analyst Mark May so often that you'd be shocked to know there was one time he went against them.
Yep. It was last year, when Coach Lou Holtz picked Connecticut to beat Notre Dame.
According to College Football Talk's John Tamanaha, it was a forced decision. Holtz reportedly said he would pick Connecticut if the Irish lost to Pittsburgh the week before.
That happened, so he did. At least you can say Coach Lou's a man of integrity. Something to celebrate in the sometimes untrustworthy world of the 21st Century.
Coach Lou's logic was that the Irish would lose because it was the last game at Notre Dame and the Irish seniors would "have tears in their eyes, they have so many great memories, they can't see who to block and tackle."
He was almost wrong. Connecticut did win the game, but 33 to 30 in double overtime to end the Charlie Weis era at Notre Dame.
So, there's your answer, Darren. Now what does this corner win?
Changing The Ratio Of Women And Minorities In Tech? Kids Are Key
The idea for this blog post started because this blogger happened on TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington's post called Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
After consuming his text, it must be said that Michael is just plain wrong - the reasons why, we'll get into later. Moreover, his post mentioned Rachel Sklar, who's a friend and who's work I respect a lot, as "a perennial TechCrunch critic," and quotes her in the Wall Street Journal, as saying:
Part of changing the ratio is just changing awareness, so that the next time Techcrunch is planning a Techcrunch Disrupt, they won’t be able to not see the overwhelming maleness of it,” said Ms. Sklar, referring to the influential tech conference
It was disappointing to read that because in planning for the trip to New York for TechCrunch Disrupt, New York City, I informed Rachel of the conference via email and asked if she was going to attend. Rachel had made other plans.
It was too bad Rachel didn't go, because while TechCrunch Disrupt New York was mostly male, it wasn't overwhelmingly so - she would have been somewhat pleased. I'm certain, as she's a speaker, she will be happy with what she sees at TechCrunch Disrupt SF.
What the official gender count at TechCrunch Disrupt New York was is not known here, but by observation, the mix was better than expected. There were women entrepreneurs competing in the "VC speed dating" contest, like my friend Jennifer O'Neil's startup firm Tripping.com.
Jennifer O'Neil Started At StubHub.com
I first met Jennifer in 2003 when she was the affiliate manager at then-new StubHub.com. Sports Business Simulations, the firm I started that year, was became one of StubHub.com's most successful affiliates, and Jennifer and I became friends. Ms. O'Neil did everything for StubHub, from managing affiliates, to radio spots, and even the phone greetings. I said over and over again to Jen that she should be on the StubHub board and also to take what she's learning there and start her own company.
Well, at TechCrunch Disrupt New York City, Jen told me she remembered my constant badgering and that played a small role in the development of the confidence she had to start Tripping.com. The point is, women and minorities must be encouraged to start tech firms.
Encouraging Women and Minorities
Michael's really wrong: men should be blamed for the lack of women in tech. There's nothing at all wrong with having the idea that a person should be picked because they're women or minority or white male, as long as the end objective is diversity.
Moreover, in order to "change the ratio," we have to start by encouraging girls and boys who are minority to go into tech fields. Just saying "You should think about being a programmer" to a ten-year-older's a great start. Having the tech equivalent of Junior Achievement is another much needed effort.
In fact, that there's not such an organization active in the San Francisco Bay Area underscores the problem. Imagine if Google executives like CEO Eric Schmidt took one evening a week to work at advising an imaginary start-up at an East Palo Alto school? Planting the idea of starting a tech company in the minds of girls and minority youth will, over time, change the ratio.
But to do that, and to be frank, it's Silicon Valley's men both white and Asian, who have to lead the charge. The only way to change the culture, is to change the behavior of the people within it.
In fact, just because Arrington said the poor ratio of women in tech is not the fault of men, he should be the very person that starts the kind of Junior Achievement-style non-profit organization called for here. Michael must understand that you can't say there's a cultural problem but it's not the fault of the people who are part of the culture. Men are the problem, but men can be the solution, too.
TechCrunch Disrupt SF: Wall Street Journal Takes AngelGate Bait
Trouble is, WSJ Blogger Russell Garland didn't realize the meeting was fake:
AngelGate, as it’s become known, just won’t go away. The brouhaha erupted after TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington uncovered a meeting of top angel investors in a San Francisco restaurant, Bin 38. Arrington blogged about it, alleging angel collusion. Now angel Ron Conway, who wasn’t at the meeting but whose SV Angel partner David Lee apparently was,...
With AngelGate, Michael Arrington has managed to shine the light on TechCrunch Disrupt SF. But for all of this, nothing that happens this week will match the fireworks that happened after Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz famously told Michael to fuck off:
Well, that's not going to happen this time. A man telling Michael what to do just doesn't have the same impact as a woman blasting him. Even though it wasn't the intent, it made for good video.
Especially for Zennie62 on YouTube.