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The news popped up yesterday while I was buried in meetings that Ron Wilson has rejoined EE Times from EDN and Rich Nass has moved over to Canon to work on the medical publications.  Ron is taking Rich's place.  That's kind of exciting to me.  Just like old times with editors bouncing between publications rather than getting laid off and disappearing into corporate black holes.  I think it's a good move for EE Times, Canon and the two journalists.  Rich has been leading the charge for new media at UBM for a while and Canon can sure use his experience to get into the 21st century.  And Ron's talents can best be used by the program Paul Miller is setting up over at the EE Times Group.   Back in about 2005 I was attending a conference in Anaheim and was walking through the lobby of my hotel when I saw Ron Wilson, then of EE Times, and Maury Wright, recently installed as EiC of EDN hunkered down at a restaurant table and looked like ...

New Tech Press Biz Dev home boy, Ozzie Wallace has started a Facebook Group called "Marketing like it is1999 " and we're opening it to everyone.  If you haven't tried Facebook, or signed up and can't figure out what the big deal is, this might give you a reason. This blog, along with several others, has been maintaining the conversation about the changing state of the media and how it affects business.  It's time to bring it all together and this is where we're proposing to do it. You have to be a Facebook member, but it took Ann Mutschler at Reed did it in less than a minute.  It's time to get it, folks.