GIGAOM
OM MALIK
14 MARCH 2008
In the early days of blogging there were just a few of us who blogged about VoIP and other such telecom topics. Russell Shaw was one of them, and he was very good at it. A good natured and knowledgeable fellow, Shaw had a rolodex that was thicker than most reporters. His ability to sniff out stories long before everyone else and then offer succinct analysis around the news made Shaw a natural blogger.
This past Thursday night, in town for eComm, Shaw went to sleep in his hotel room in San Jose and never woke up. Shaw wrote a VoIP blog and Blackberry Blog for ZDNet, had been suffering from a cold. He had been traveling across the country attending several events.