I trust that people will respect the content of our Commission meeting update today, but if nothing else, they'll have to respect our pretty slides.
My name is Andrew Nesi, and I'm a recent graduate of Notre Dame and Special Assistant on the National Broadband team. I think I have the best entry-level job in Washington. Sometimes, my work is administrative-I'm now the world's leading expert on ordering Chinese food for 50, including Atkins-dieters, vegetarians, and a lovable Brazilian named Carlos. Other times, my work is more substantive; helping others work through their analysis for the plan.
This weekend, though, my job had a singular focus: the 150+ slides we'll be using during today's Commission meeting run through my computer, and those of a few other junior team members. With the exception of about four hours worth of way-too-nervewracking Notre Dame football on Saturday night, I've spent most of my waking hours over the last week with this presentation. It's like a young child--it's both my pride and joy, and the bane of my existence.
Now, I haven't been to many FCC Commission Meetings--they don't do so well in that coveted males, age 18-34 Nielsen demographic--but I've heard repeatedly that we're about to attempt something very different than the Commission has seen in recent memory.
The meeting will be four hours long. We'll have more than 20 presenters, with presentations ranging from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. We'll cover each component of our current work-updating the Commissioners on the work we've been doing for the past few months.
We'll discuss the data we've collected--and the data we've tried to collect, but haven't. We'll provide our best evaluation, albeit incomplete, of the current state broadband deployment and adoption. And we'll report our preliminary insights into the potential implications of universal broadband on a wide variety of National Purposes. You can see the whole agenda here.
Excited yet? We are. We hope it will be unlike anything the Commission has ever seen. And not just because the slides are pretty.
How the heck can we download these slides without jumping through some scribd hoop?
Martin's FCC never put up these kinds of roadblocks to the public getting access to information. What happened to "open" and "transparent?" It should be easier to get this stuff, not harder.There IS a link to download them...look carefully. Not everyone wants to download files, they would rather read in their browser.
Dear Guest I must be missing something, but, if you click on the link above "You can see the whole agenda here." You will be directed to another page where you will find a number of documents that are identified by their description in BOLD. Just below the description in BOLD you will find the description repeated and next to the repeated description you will find (underlined and colored blue-if you have a color CRT and do not override the default html website style sheet) "Download File" (again - underlined and blue)
You can just click on the "Download File" and it will either open the PDF file in the same window of your browser or you should be able to right-click (or Ctrl Click on MAC ?) and select the pop-up menu "Save Link As" (depending on your OS or Browser) and save the associated pdf files to your desktop. You may want to take the time to look at scribd.com. It provides a terrific service to the internet public. I also am proud that "Andrew Nesi" or whomever published these documents on the scribd.com. It is quite apparent to me that our elected officials and the governmental employees who support their initiatives are doing everything possible to create transparency. Transparency does not mean that new and better technologies will not be used to share information. Really, these comment sections should require registration. That way someone could follow-up with you to let you know that either the problem is fixed or there never was a problem. -- To the Staff who maintain this page. -- I think you did a great job. I am very happy you are using many different modern internet tools to diseminate the information to the public. And, if it was broken when the above Guest commented at 2:18pm (Eastern?) well - you all fixed it by around 4:15 when I first came to the site. I never had any problems. Thank You Sincerely Whitney StewartIn response to "Martin's FCC never put up these kinds of roadblocks to the public getting access to information. What happened to "open" and "transparent?" It should be easier to get this stuff, not harder."
Damn these Democrats for using private sector hoops to when they should be using efficient, well-designed government bureaucrat hoops.I am the original poster. I did look carefully. The links I found to download the files required a log-in and password, which I find to be an unnecessary barrier that thwarts the stated goals of openness. If there were links that did not include this requirement, they were not placed in a user-friendly manner.
There is now a link to a pdf only version of the slides at the FCC's main page. That's fine, but it wasn't there during the presentation when I was trying to follow along. There is not an option on the main page to obtain the powerpoint version. I respect that some may find scribd useful. I have no problem having that as an option. But there should also be an option to simply download the files in various formats directly. In my experience, scribd is both burdensome and painfully slow. Other experiences may vary, but I suggest avoiding using scribd as a first resort. On the suggestion that these comments sections should require registration, I respectfully disagree. They are moderated, which is reasonable. But requiring registration would only serve to impose another barrier to public discourse, which is the opposite of the new Commission's stated goals.I am the original poster. I did look carefully. The links I found to download the files required a log-in and password, which I find to be an unnecessary barrier that thwarts the stated goals of openness. If there were links that did not include this requirement, they were not placed in a user-friendly manner.
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