My new job!

Looks like I'm getting a promotion folks!!

This time I'm making myself Administrator of Snooping Around for Details and Info You Won't find On Your Friendly Neighborhood NTIA or RUS online website.

It's a dirty job but in this economy of joblessness you should be happy to see at least one other person getting employment um even if it is self-employment in a voluntary made up position.

I'm off a-snooping folks. Let me know if you have a good question to go track down!

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If you don't want to leave it in the comment field you can email them to broadbandlawyer(at) yahoo.com

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edited to add questions questions Inquiring minds want to know...

1. Who is lobbying the congressional oversight committees and drafting their inquiry and demand letters to the NTIA and RUS in an attempt to influence who gets funding;

2. Which applicants have written, called, or emailed (read Lobbied) their congressional representatives urging them also to write, call, email or otherwise nudge the NTIA and RUS into taking a closer or second look at their application. (A list and access to the letters from Congressional and other government heads would be helpful. Strickling already let us know the NTIA, at least, has collected several of such letters);

3. Who specifically has already passed to stage 2 considering knowing this could help Round 2 applicants gain some insight on what it takes so they can prepare for Round 2 funding;

4. How far along is each agency into the stage 2 notification process, specifically of the applicants selected for step 2, how much of the 4.2 billion allocation did they request and could possibly lessen the pot by if they were to be successful in the end (Inquiring minds want to know if they pot is drying up and their chances of getting funded this round);

5. Who specifically (names and titles) were these persons who served as panel experts in the NTIA volunteer expert stage; and

6. What is the specific criteria being used to judge the applications and allocation of points; This is not a data set, per se, but I'm sure plenty people would want to know whether NTIA/RUS foresee distributing all the funds before the application would be due for the next round since getting or not getting funded this round would be a deciding factor in whether an applicant begins the process of trying again.