I suppose most everyone around here will remember Greensboro’s efforts last March to lure Google into choosing us for a high-speed broadband network. Well, last week Google announced that Stanford is the first area Google has picked to get a high-speed broadband network. . . . The network, which could deliver speeds up to 1 gigabit a second, will [...]
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Ever since Ken Auletta’s New Yorker article on ebooks last spring, it seems like discussions on the topic among librarians have stepped up a notch or two. In fact, things are moving so quickly that an online summit (or “webinar”) called Libraries: The Tipping Point was held late last month in an attempt to hash out just how the ebooks [...]
Filed under: Books and Reading, libraries, technology | Tagged: ebooks, Eli Neiburger, libraries, Ray Kurzweil, Tim Spalding | 1 Comment »
With the BP oil disaster in the Gulf reaching epic proportions, President Obama will be visiting Alabama, Mississippi and Florida today, and plans an Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday night, MSNBC reports. The partially contained leak is now believed to be as much as 40,000 barrels per day — previous estimates were much lower — and [...]
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“Das Buch ist nicht tot!” The book is not dead. So reads a sign in old German typeface which hangs in my cube, given to me awhile back by one of my librarian colleagues. And while that sentiment may well be accurate, we’re nonetheless at the beginnings of a sea-change for the book, probably the most dramatic change since [...]
Filed under: Books and Reading, libraries, technology | Tagged: Amazon, Apple, books, digital books, ebooks, Google, iPad, Ken Auletta, Kindle | 8 Comments »
As the deadline for submitting the Google Fiber Request for Information draws near, Greensboro’s efforts are attracting national notice, including mention by PC Magazine, which picked up on our YouTube video. And this post from localtechwire suggests we’re one of the top ten cities in the country making a pitch, based on a “share of voice” analysis made by [...]
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City to SUBMIT Google Fiber Application LIVE during Celebration Event WHO: The City of Greensboro and supporters of the Google Fiber Initiative WHAT: The City of Greensboro to Submit Google Application at Final Mobile Tour Stop Over the last few weeks, the City of Greensboro has made several stops at high-traffic areas to increase awareness [...]
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Just to let interested folks know, a draft of the narrative sections of Greensboro’s Google Fiber Application or Request for Information (RFI) has just been posted on-line in a wiki. Each of the four sections were broken up into shorter paragraphs in the last draft I saw — not sure why those weren’t preserved here. But the information [...]
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