What the rest of the Fierce family is up to this week

If you have an interest in wireless or what Google's head lobbyist is thinking about, you may want to visit Fierce's other sites this week.

FierceWireless is on the ground at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this week, with Sue Marek, Jason Ankeny, and Phil Goldstein making the rounds. Over at VoIP Watch, Andy Abramson was bemoaning the fact that a lot of analysts, press, and bloggers had taken a pass on MWC.  Our sister publication is providing on-site coverage, so you're welcome to read between the lines on that. (And FYI, FierceVoIP has already been to CES and ITEXPO East this year and you'll see us at VoiceCon in Orlando as well).

I would also like to note the first appearance of Phil Goldstein on FierceTelecom's (web) pages. Phil conducted an extensive interview with Rick Whitt, Google's Washington Telecom and Media Counsel. It makes for insightful reading in terms of Google's objectives to influence policy and how it is going about doing so.  We hope to see more features from Phil in the future - even if we have to keep reminding him that there's more to telecommunications policy than his home beat of wireless.

Finally, you may want to wander over to FierceOnlineVideo to "follow the money." There's quite a bit of venture capital going into online video projects these days in spite of the stalled economy. We'll have to check in with Scott Wharton over at VidTel in the next few weeks to see how he is doing.

- Doug