Props to My Co-Host

TechTicker has been a bit sparse in August-- a combination of slow news, New York going to the Hamptons en masse, and me flitting in-and-out of town on my seemingly-never-ending-yet-only-one-third-done User Generated Book Tour. My TechTicker co-host Aaron Task has had a great month though: He flew to South Korea to interview sitting president Myung-Bak Lee in a Yahoo News exclusive. His clips posted today, and he did a fabulous job.

As you know if you read this regularly, I’m generally obsessed with the culture of entrepreneurship and innovation and the way Web 2.0 platforms have fundamentally changed it from a geographic, financial, and social point of view. That’s why I’ve spent more time out of Silicon Valley this year than I have, well, ever—be it in Tel Aviv or Omaha, Nebraska. While, I do hope that 2009 will be a calmer travel year (and my very patient and understanding TechTicker overlords hope the same) I am planning on a few trips. South Korea and India are two of the top ones on the list, so I devoured these clips and am so proud of Aaron and the TT team for doing such a great job.

I won’t embed all of them here, but please go to TechTicker for more. My two favorites are below. The first is about South Korea’s position as a tech leader—thanks in large part to its amazing broadband infrastructure we all hear so much about in the Valley. (And drool when we hear about it.) The second is about the two Koreas and when they will ever unite. I thought Aaron did a pitch perfect job of bringing up the emotional significance of this for his family (his dad was a Korean war veteran) while not making it about himself. He’s a pro.

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