MN

Want Rural 21st Century Broadband? Form a Co-Op or Wait Indefinitely for Someone Else to Provide It

Stevie Converse — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:08:10 -0500

Full article: Stop the Cap!
Phillip Dampier
Parts of rural Minnesota are teaching the nation a lesson or two about how to deliver rural broadband -- form a community co-op and provide it yourself, or wait forever for a commercial provider to deem it sufficiently profitable to deliver a reasonable level of service.

Connect Minnesota Releases 2011 Residential Broadband Adoption Survey Results

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:59:10 -0400

Full article: Connect Minnesota
Connect Minnesota released new residential broadband adoption survey results revealing the top trends in technology use among key demographics in the state. According to the survey, approximately 28% of the population still does not subscribe to broadband. Most notably, the majority of low-income, senior, disabled adult, and Hispanic households are without broadband at home, leaving them facing an uphill battle in keeping up with essential online resources, job and educational opportunities, and social services.

Broadband Summit Asks How to Close Rural Digital Divide

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:29:47 -0400

Full article: Minnesota Public Radio
Dan Olson
A new survey out this week shows that a majority of rural Minnesotans have access to faster Internet connections. Yet some other trends are not as hopeful. While more than 87 percent of those making $50,000 a year or more have a computer at home, only 42 percent of those making less than $25,000 do. The rural Internet divide impedes better health care, education and business development in those parts of the state.

FCC Chairman: More Folks Need to Make Broadband National Priority

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:24:41 -0400

Full article: Multichannel News
John Eggerton
Addressing a broadband summit at the University of Minnesota, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that some people still aren't treating broadband as a national priority. The chairman conceded that participants at the summit would be expected to agree that broadband is a priority, but said: "I do want you to know that is not the uniform opinion in Washington or in our state governments."

FCC Chairman Warns of National Crisis in Broadband

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:14:18 -0400

Full article: St. Paul Pioneer Press
Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
The United States is lagging in broadband deployment, and that will cost it in job creation and the future delivery of education and health care services, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday at a summit on high-speed Internet communications in Minneapolis.

FCC to Hear from Minnesotans on Future of Internet

Jenn Ettinger — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:31:48 -0400

Commissioners Copps and Clyburn to Attend Public Hearing Aug. 19

The Uptake and All Manner of Competitors Belong in the Minnesota Capitol

Stevie Converse — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:55:47 -0400

Full article: St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Dykstra
The journalism industry is evolving under the broad, democratizing influence of the Web. What a "journalist" is and what it means to "publish" will continue to change in the coming years. The idea that the State of Minnesota can restrict the number and kind of press organizations renting space at the Capitol for being partisan, "different" or for publishing in new mediums doesn't belong in a mature understanding of the First Amendment, journalism or free enterprise.

Frontier's New Internet Overcharging Scheme Gouges Internet Users

Holiday Shapiro — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:44:15 -0400

Recent news reports indicate that although revenue for Internet provider Frontier Communications has been increasing, the company is testing a new Internet overcharging scheme that would force consumers to pay outrageously high fees for what the company arbitrarily deems “high bandwidth use.”

Top This, Topeka: All First-Born Children to Be Named 'Google'

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:50:31 -0500

Full article: Broadband Breakfast
A few weeks ago, Google announced their own efforts to expand broadband through a trial of high-speed fiber-optic network which would deliver speeds of one Gigabit per second (1Gbps). As part of their application, Duluth, Minn., has even created an amusing video, saying that all first-born children will be named Google.

Netroots Minnesota Convention

Jordan Berg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:56:49 -0500

Start: 11/20/2009 - 00:00

End: 11/21/2009 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Progressives from all over Minnesota will gather in St. Paul on November 20-21 for the first ever Netroots Minnesota conference. This conference will be modeled after the Netroots Nation conference (formerly known as the YearlyKos Convention). The netroots played a critical role in helping shape a national progressive agenda over the last several years.