Interesting post on No Jitter:

 

"Cisco will use its TelePresence technology to conference in Al Gore as a keynote speaker at VoiceCon. What's Cisco's VoiceCon carbon footprint as they ferry in 100+ staffers to work the booth and myriad whisper suites scattered around the hotel?"

 

I am here at VoiceCon and there is literally an army of Cisco people at the show, many of them just to set up the tonnage of equipment for the TelePresence demo. Al Gore is going to be joining from Nashville to participate. At over 3000 pounds of carbon per person expended in travelling, you do have to ask yourself if it wouldn't be cheaper just flying Al out here. He was willing to go to London, so I imagine 500 miles to Orlando is not a big jolt.

 

Let's hope common sense prevails.

 

 

 

I should start by saying that I am in no way involved with Yahoo deal and am not privy to any specific info. I'm just another guy reading the papers. And what I find is kind of bizarre.

 

This paragraph was in Wall Street Journal today: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120472835995813707.html?mod=rss_Deals_and_Deal_Makers.