{"id":5043,"date":"2008-10-20T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/obamas-cto-short-list\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:03:15","slug":"obamas-cto-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/obamas-cto-short-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s CTO short list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAccording to Business Week, Obama&#8217;s CTO will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/oct2008\/db20081019_258155.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily\">one of these guys:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the candidates who would be considered for the job, say Washington insiders, are Vint Cerf, Google&#8217;s (GOOG) &#8220;chief internet evangelist,&#8221; who is often cited as one of the fathers of the Internet; Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive officer Steve Ballmer; Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeffrey Bezos; and Ed Felten, a prominent professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see Ballmer taking this job when he&#8217;s having so much fun, but I imagine any of the others would bite. Trouble is, they&#8217;re mostly business guys rather than tech guys, so it&#8217;s not an elite group. I&#8217;d have to go with Felten, for the fact that he has actual technical knowledge as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/\">well as a blog<\/a>. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-comcast-net-neutrality-controversy-a-discussion\/\">debated him about net neutrality<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/net neutrality\" rel=\"tag\">net neutrality<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Business Week, Obama&#8217;s CTO will be one of these guys: Among the candidates who would be considered for the job, say Washington insiders, are Vint Cerf, Google&#8217;s (GOOG) &#8220;chief internet evangelist,&#8221; who is often cited as one of the fathers of the Internet; Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive officer Steve Ballmer; Amazon (AMZN) CEO &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/obamas-cto-short-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama&#8217;s CTO short list&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}