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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and ZeroDivide President and CEO Tessie Guillermo: Photo by Mona T. Brooks

Since you already know that ZeroDivide was awarded Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) funding last week for our Generation ZD Digital Literacy Program, it's time to talk about the seven great organizations we are partnering with in this effort.  Let's build in a little western states geography lesson as well and start from Hawaii, cross the ocean to the Pacific Northwest, go southbound, and then move slightly eastward. 

Okay, so as you've probably heard by now, ZeroDivide last week received two federal stimulus funding awards totalling more than $2 million.  We've been interviewed about these awards from Honolulu to Seattle, as have our terrific local funding partners in the six states where we will implement our work.  The awards cover two pretty different types of work, both of which highlight ZeroDivide's expertise in working with underserved communities - but in different ways and for different target populations. 

There are not many things that would inspire me to drive for two hours on a weekday night in rush hour traffic to....San Jose?!?  As the song goes, I DO know the way to San Jose...and it's long and ugly.  But for Lady Gaga and her only Northern California stop for the "Monster Ball" tour?  I'm there.

"Welcome aboard.  My name is Stacey, I'm your flight attendant tonight, and I'm going to be pointing out the emergency exits on this CRJ200 aircraft.  And if I decide to pull the escape slide and jump out of the plane, I'm not going to settle for two beers.  I'm taking the whole liquor cart with me!"

According to the recently released McKinsey Quarterly, advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Emerging Internet technologies, increased computing power, and fast, pervasive digital communications are spawning new ways to manage talent and assets as well as new thinking about organizational structures.

Can someone develop an app that goes through all of the available apps and finds me an app that I really need?  I mean, Koi Pond is pretty, and definitely helps to soothe the soul when you're stuck on the bus or subway or in bad highway traffic (hmmm...is feeding the fish on my Koi Pond app while driving the same thing as texting while driving?  If so, disregard this last sentence if you live in a state where texting and driving is illegal). 

Last week I, along with 3 other ZeroDivide staff members and 12 ZeroDivide scholarship winners, attended Netroots Nation 2010. For many of us, it was our first time attending this conference.

Where were YOU at 2:29:10 pm PDT today?  If you were in the San Francisco Bay Area, you probably felt the tremor that rattled windows, shook cars, and sent many an amphibian into a midafternoon tizzy (as far back as 373 BC, from Greece to China, there are documented accounts of toads and frogs fleeing en masse from earthquake epicenters as much as three days or as close as 20 minutes prior to the seismic activity itself happening).  Luckily for those of us fortunate enough to live in a region (unlike Haiti, for example) well-fortified against earthquake activity, today's tremor . . .

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Mobile Access 2010 report, more Americans are accessing the internet wirelessly. 

African-American and Latinos continue to be the most active users of mobile web, with a greater percentage owning cell phones and accessing the internet with them.