Yesterday afternoon, Fire Chief Chris Albertson sent out a press release announcing that due to the "high temperatures" in Petaluma, designated public places with air conditioning would be open - primarily for Senior Citizens - today and tomorrow in order to beat the heat. Within a few hours, PetalumaNet was [...]
Bill's Blog #9, brought back memories of John Eger and his earlier initiative called Smart Communities. In 1997, John authored a piece for the San Diego Union-Tribune, titled, "Cyberspace and Cyberplace: Building the Smart Communities of Tomorrow" in which he articulated his vision for Cyber Cities of the future if [...]
Today's post is my 99th blog for the Argus-Courier. The original topic was called Our Cyberplace, a slight modification of an earlier blog named Our Cyberspace, that was hosted by "Petaluma Online" from 2003-2005. These two blogs, although slightly different in name, covered essentially the same interest area - the [...]
Remember why Bill Soberanes never missed a deadline? He would recycle some of his My Fascinating World of People columns from time to time. Guess what? That's what I'm going to do today; not because I have a deadline (blogging is a volunteer endeavor), but because the message is just [...]
OK, so I'm not keeping my word. Although I promised to cut back from posting a blog daily, the events of the day - particularly, in Our Cyberplace - require a response from your community's Volunteer Cybernaut more frequently than planned. Let's check out a few headlines in today's print [...]
You didn't have to have "eagle-eyes" to read the headline in the 5-29-06 Technology Section of the SF Chronicle. It was music to my ears! Over 10 years ago, when we formed our local community group of Cybernauts called PetalumaNet, I felt that we would reach this level of use [...]
Earlier this morning, I posted #35 - Th Impact of Blogs. As I was reading an item in an "old fashion printed newspaper later," I couldn't resist entering a second blog for today. It is another Cyberplace issue that I had to react to ASAP. Perhaps my earlier Web log [...]
Are all Petalumans reading the Argus-Courier blogs? Obviously, you are if you're reading this post. However, how did you arrive at this page? Did you log on directly, using http://www.arguscourier.com or did you get here via a search engine? What do the surveys at the national level tells us about [...]
I enjoy reading Tom Friedman's columns for the New York Times. Most of the time, I agree with him. Why? He often takes a futurist's point of view - looking ahead to where we are going; not where we've been. Consequently, his thoughts are out of the box, and he [...]
The June 2006 Newsletter for the Petaluma Senior Center carried a couple of announcements for those Seniors interested in becoming computer literate. For the benefit of our viewers, here are the two items.(1) The Senior Computer SIG (Special Interest Group) meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Last [...]