With the shutdown of the Emerging Telephony blog, the subsequent shuffle of O’Reilly telephony guy Surj Patel over to GigaOm, and the poopoo-ing of the E-Tel conference, one must wonder, did O’Reilly miss the bus on VoIP?  There were so many other large publish-promoters in the VoIP sector before O’Reilly really threw their hat in the ring–TMC, PulverMedia, and so on.  I remember when Switching to VoIP was published. Many people asked me, “What took so long?”  So my assumption is that these strategic moves by O’Reilly are an indicator that the publishing giant was too late in establishing the firm as an authority in the area.