New FCC Chairman Announced

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:15

Posted in category Barack Obama, FCC, Julius Genachowski

President-elect Barack Obama has selected Julius Genachowski to lead the Federal Communications Commission.

This appears to bode well for a forward-looking (or at least clued) Internet policy, since Genachowski is credited with running Obama’s internet-based election campaign, and, according to “Fierce Telecom,” has an impressive record working with technology and communications companies: He was Chief of Business Operations at InterActiveCorp; he’s co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures, which currently backs 11 internet-based start-ups, and he’s also served on the boards of numerous technology and new media companies, including The Motley Fool, Web.com, Truveo, and Rapt.

Links:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/01/13/1821202
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
http://techfragments.com/news/239/Tech/Obama_Selects_Julius_Genachowski_as_New_FCC_Chairman.html
http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/genachowski-be-new-fcc-chaiman/2008-12-19?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&cmp-id=OTC-RSS-FT0

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Slashdot

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Geoff Caplan

Geoff Caplan.Com