That's the headline in today's Press Democrat, along with a sub-heading, "Backers, opponents debate impact on, access to services, cost to customers."Regular readers of my blog might say, "Haven't you talked this topic to death? Move on to something new!" You're right, we have discussed "NN" more than once; but [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday was not only a beautiful day weather-wise; but a most informational day Cyberspace-wise. I left Our Cyberplace - Petaluma, and spent four hours mingling with folks at the Marin Broadband Roundtable meeting in Sausalito. In many ways it was a flashback to earlier PetalumaNet (1995), Petaluma CyberCity Roundtable (1998), [...]
Although computer technology has been around for some time, the historic records indicate that the basic ideas of the Internet were created in 1973 and the World Wide Web was developed in 1991. This blogger, although a computer user in the 1980s, did not become seriously involved with the promotion [...]
The Benton Communications-Related Headline for Wednesday, May 17, 2006 stated, "The public now has a choice. It can live in self-ignorance, or it can fight for an open-society." (Jonathan Turley, George Washington University.) That's rather blunt talk about one of our favorite themes - Our Cyberspace. Even though the focus [...]
Hit the "pause" key! Stop the presses! Is it time to reconsider this blogger's quest to promote greater use of computer technology and telecommunications? Have I really thought through the impact that computers, cell phones, video games, text messaging, and - YES - even blogs will have on those children [...]
"You are lost out there. Stop wandering and return home." But I am home when I think about my CyberPlace - Petaluma, USA. There are two elements of our cyber world that are As a Cybernaut, I'm continually on a journey in CyberSpace. Sometimes my wife says, not separate, but [...]
Why would a Cybernaut ask such a question? What is he doing on the tennis court, when he should be sitting in front of his computer clicking here, surfing there, and sharing information over the Internet?A comment posted to yesterday's blog from Frank Simpson, one of our community's "neighborhood watchdogs," [...]
This post is a MUST READ & LISTEN announcement. The following audio program contains great overview and background information related to some of the topics addessed in previous blogs: Broadband - Municipal Wi-Fi - Internet. Although the total program runs approximately 50 minutes, it may be listened to in segments [...]