This trip (Greensboro, NC to Santa Clara and back) has made me a believer in the iPass service - again. If you travel even a little bit, you know the issues involved in connecting to the variety of internet access systems in the different locations you find yourself. This week I've been in 4 airports, a hotel with 3 different internet providers in different areas, and a coffee shop. In all those landing spots I was able to connect without entering a password, providing my credit card, or even signing on to a free account. iPass took care of finding the available networks, connecting, and logging in. Not quite magic, but close enough for me.

I've done plenty of interviews in my career. I've migrated from phone interviews that I've either incorporated into articles, to fairly straight transcriptions - also delivered as text. About 3 years ago, I started recording video interviews, mostly at trade shows. Next week I'll be recording more formally set interviews at the Web3.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA. and this will be a departure from my earlier experiences.