When I first started co-hosting the KenRadio World Technology Roundup back in the fall of 1998 with Ken Rutkowski, on what was then called TTALK.com, one of our most loyal listeners was Ken Cotton. An ‘uber geek’, Ken was already extolling the virtues of VoIP long before most others.
I remember at some event in San Francisco in 1999 when he came up to Ken and me showing us the Internet Phone Jack, telling us, like Jeff Pulver how VoIP would be it someday. I also remember when Ken would call in to tell us what was going on in Tokyo on our live weekender show.
Ken would always chat with me via ICQ just to stay in touch. Somewhere along the way he made the move to Tokyo and started to work with ISPs, then moved into the DSL space and has been active over there, while still finding ways to get back to the USA.
Ken’s one of the unheralded shock troops who have been evangelizing the idea of IP communications way before it was “en vogue.” Some tend to forget about those folks, but I don’t. Neither does Ken Rutkowski so when we talk about our loyal cadre of listeners and readers, Ken Cotton always comes to mind.
That’s why I’m happy to tell the world that Ken, over in Tokyo is now a proud papa. Not of a startup, but of Ren, a bouncing baby boy. Ken let me know via a fast IM via Skype telling me:
I am a father now. Son was born last night Japan time. Cute kid.
We chatted for a few minutes and then he headed back to the hospital after making a few phone calls (VoIP I bet) to tell friends and relatives the news.
When I think of friends and family these days, I don’t think of those just near physically, but those connected via this thing we call the “net.” I’m really glad to have Ken in that circle…hearing the the way I did, as fast as I did adds a special touch to the cold, cutting edge view we all take sometimes.
Congrats Ken!
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