Perhaps I will have an opportunity to attend one of those Broadband Advisory Council meetings someday. But I’m still wondering why Arkansas Business and the Dem-Gaz are not providing coverage of those meetings already?

I wonder what his bad characteristics are?

Also there already exist solutions to run wireless internet access using enhanced wifi across whole valleys and villages and it has existed for at least five years because they do so in various parts of Europe. There are a few different ways to go about doing so. You could use a pre-made solution from a company such as Meraki, created by some MIT grads, or you could use OpenMesh products as Kharma Consulting does with their Argenta Wireless network that covers all of the Argenta district in North Little Rock with wireless broadband internet with expansions coming to the Little Rock side this year.

The market has already developed and begun deploying the technology necessary to cover the area with broadband internet access; you just have to give them time to deal with all the regulations and capital outlays. You know the creation of capital can not be created out of thin air but requires a lot of intensive saving, planning, and hard work.

I’ve always thought that was funny given many of their appearences on AETN about the week’s events! Guess it’s easier to get to Conway than downtown Little Rock?!

Kudos to Roby, he makes it over every few weeks. About as often as Brummett.

Oops, just remembered the AT guys showed up out of the blue after Randy Stewart filed his bill.

Of course, the ADG has also recently moved toward differential pricing for delivery to rural areas, which I suppose could be seen as a first step toward further cost increases and, ultimately, ending rural delivery. Possibly.
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In general, the GOP ought to be more concerned about rural Internet in order to communicate with its natural constituency. The Democrats have a big advantage with the concentration of broadband access in the more liberal urban areas; they can use YouTube, et al, to massively communicate with their supporters. The Republicans are stuck with dinosaur media like newspapers and television, which are losing effectiveness.

I’m sad, no, very sad to newspapers go away. My first job was with the Gazette, as a paperboy. I don’t WANT them to fail. I hate to see most any business fail. We’re all sad to see what was once popular, floundering like a fish out of water.

What’s happening to newspapers (and journalism) is similar to what happened to TV’s variety shows. Hell, who didn’t love The Carol Burnett Show? Why did it and other variety shows fade away? Because of the remote control. Once we the viewers had the power (control) in our hands, we created our own variety shows. You know, the first few minutes of The Love Boat, then switch over to Dance Fever, maybe a chase scene on Starsky & Hutch, and then back to the end of The Love Boat. So who needed Carol and the Ernest Flatt Dancers anymore?

The Internet gives us the same type of control, but on steroids. With RSS I can micro pick a subject that interests me and maybe 47 other people on the planet without having to wade through the macro swamp of things that don’t interest me.

So, it’s not that we hate newspapers. We didn’t hate Carol Burnett. We all loved her, but it still wasn’t enough to save her show.

I guess this contrived feud is supposed to make the Arkansas blogosphere entertaining.”

“Contrived.” Really? Tell that to the laid-off DemGaz employees. While it may be misguided, it is certainly not contrived. Brummett and his colleagues are fighting windmills. They should focus their anger at the AP and other news services that pimp their product to everyone and his brother. That business model used to work, but not any more. Selling the same content to the Boston Globe and the Arkansas Dem-Gaz was okay in the past because they didn’t have the same readers. Now, both newspapers’ readers can get the same content from Yahoo or any of another 1000 sites long before said content is reproduced in ink.

As far as making “the Arkansas blogosphere entertaining,” I’m going to have to say yes. It’s not just limited to Arkansas though. Big shot newspaper folks all over the country are fighting the wrong fight, blaming bloggers for their troubles, when everyone knows that it’s Al Gore’s fault. He should’ve never invented the Internet.