The City of Cleveland’s proposal for a $15 million Federal stimulus grant to build a public wireless broadband network is officially out of the running, at least for now.
On Friday the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration added status information to the individual application pages at Broadband USA. The City of Cleveland’s page now [...]
It’s been two years since Frank Jackson officially abandoned his first high-profile attempt to create a City-supported wifi network on the ill-fated Philadelphia-EarthLink model. Now he’s quietly giving City wifi another try, this time hoping to pay for it with $15 million in Federal broadband stimulus money.
From the Commerce Department’s Broadband USA database of [...]
Today is the big twice-a-year Street Sale on Archwood Avenue, where I live. (Tomorrow, too.) I’m sitting on my front porch watching the shoppers go by and showing those who ask how our new “Free Archwood WiFi” works.
Yes, we now have a free public wifi mesh serving our block. It currently covers a 500-foot stretch [...]
Fourteen months ago I wrote this post, which quoted an AT&T sales crew manager to the effect that Cleveland city residents were unlikely to see any “cable competition” from AT&T’s ballyhooed U-Verse service for at least two and a half years, i.e. until mid-2010.
I was not at all surprised by this. In 2006, when so-called [...]
Cleveland’s first OneWebDay event, an online town meeting at Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center, has been called off. The Center is still without power due to Sunday’s high winds. The storm also damaged the Case/One Community wifi network, which was to be featured in the web-based interviews with Obama and McCain representatives.
Organizers decided yesterday morning [...]
OneWebDay comes every year on September 22 (well, every year since 2006). And this year, for the first time ever, it’s coming to Cleveland!
Community technology activists in Cleveland will mark OneWebDay 2008 with a town meeting on “The Next President, the Internet and the Disconnected City”.
The town meeting is tentatively scheduled for 4 pm [...]
A very interesting post at Bytes From Lev:
However, the suggestion or even intimation that cities die is an anthropomorphic fallacy.
By my count, there are nearly 500 cities around the world who are experiencing population loss. The number of shrinking cities (more than 10% population loss) in the United States is at least 59. Indeed, more [...]
I’m back.
On Wednesday we left the Point Pelee area (now forever to be known in our family as The Mosquito Coast) and headed 250 miles north to Tobermory, at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. Half of our trip was on Highway 21, known as the Bluewater Highway because [...]
Got an hour to kill with the wifi in a Williams coffeehouse in London, ON while the battery’s charging, so…
After two days hanging around Point Pelee and Leamington, the Tomato Capital of Ontario, we got up this morning and drove east on Highway 3 along the Erie coast to London. Highlights of the day so [...]
Even in its “pre-release” form the County Engineer’s new map site (CEGIS MyCuyahoga) is pretty impressive. Congratulations to Mr. Kelley and the rest of the team that put it together.
Obviously the site will have lots of uses. Â Here’s one: Make your own scary foreclosure map.
This one shows a couple of square miles of the [...]