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Ok, I admit it. I've been bad.

Our last entry was in October of 2008. It's...April of 2009. Bad.

What happened? Well, last May, I began a stint at Communications Daily, during which I was not permitted to compete with my own employer, which publishes a series of daily newsletters that aren't quite the same as what Alex and I had going here, but similar enough in subject matter that things were a bit...awkward. I left CommDaily after about six great months to begin law school, and sporadically thought about doing something to this site and returning it to it's "glory days."

Alex, family man that he is, had a whole other set of things to fill his time, including a move and another new job. But he's not as guilty as I am.

I intend to do something with this site again one day. But right now, I've been involved in a far more exciting project.

Since January, I've been lucky enough to be working with Drew Clark, a veteran DC telecom journalist in building a news operation at Broadband Census, where we're following the Broadband Stimulus package, privacy, telecommunications policy, pretty much anything broadband. And while admittedly it isn't as fun doing "straight news" as it is blogging, it's not that bad.

Anyway, I'll be returning to the Tech Policy Summit in a few weeks to report for Broadband Census, but will have myriad pictures and multimedia content to go with it that may go along with my reporting, or may go here.

But I intend to do something meaningful with this place.  Any suggestions, let me know.

--Andrew

When I started this site with a friend almost a year ago, we had this crazy idea that getting the Washington, DC inside-the-beltway crowd and the Silicon Valley crowd talking to each other and understanding each other would be helpful.

I spent a few months in hibernation and brought Robert Scoble to DC to interview a bunch of people and try and get the people out in Silly Valley to see what goes on here. We even made some news with Rep. John Culberson when his Qik habit turned into a minor controversy on the Hill.

Meanwhile, I've been mired in the depths of trying to practice journalism while working my way through law school, and have been contributing content to a number of sites. And sadly, I have been neglecting my own.

But my neglect has not come from laziness or lack of caring. I simply don't understand what my core mission here is anymore. There are tons of tech blogs out there. Some have more resources and better access than I do.  Some don't. What I tried to offer is a balanced perspective based on my varying experiences in both the tech, political and legal worlds.

And some of you liked it. Some of you probably still do.

So, I'm asking all of you. Do you want more straight news stories? Do you want commentary on them? Do you want opinion and bloviating? What is it you want that I can provide for you?

Because if I'm just another voice, what's the point? I might as well make this a vanity resume page and be done with it. But I don't think that's the course to take. I think there is a space to be filled. And I think you know what you want as readers. I just need a good kick to refocus.

So please, kick. Email or comment. What can I do for you?

So a few months ago, I talked to Robert Scoble about why today's Web 2.0 world doesn't "get" Washington. 463's Sean Garrett totally nailed it in a blog post a few months ago, too, right around when I went into Radio Silence (more on that below). Robert said he wanted to learn more about the issue, and we talked more about it at SXSW. He said he wanted to come check this place out for himself, and I was happy to oblige

It's not TV...it's Jonny's Par-Tay hosted by my friend Jonny Goldstein.My fellow guest is an interesting guy who writes about the East Coast startup scene, and I can't wait to meet him. I'm going to talk about "tech policy" whatever that means. I'm just here to entertain, I swear. You guys can join in on uStream too. I'll post more details tomorrow, but we go live at 9PM Eastern Time this Wednesday.

...so here's a funny youtube video.

I really wish someone had recorded it...I'll get slides up ASAP.
The yellow thing was a laughing prop. People liked it.

I am speaking around 3pm at PodCamp DC at the Art Institute of Washington. I'll be talking about "Identity, Privacy and Security in Web Enabled Environments," 

Here's a great photo Tanja Barnes shot of me and Craig talking at TPS. Interview can be found here.

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, Capitol Valley is now listed on the Politics section of Alltop. 

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