tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64710282010-04-30T10:48:18.858-05:00A mainly tech blog that sometimes touches politics and education. I use a Mac so you will hear about that and I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA so you will hear about our upcoming municipal Wi-Fi mesh network. I believe that open source is the only way to build big software so that may come up too. Est. 2004.Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.comBlogger858125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-72661317642224234952010-04-30T10:48:00.001-05:002010-04-30T10:48:18.897-05:00<br /> This blog is now located at http://pfhyper.blogspot.com/.<br /> You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click <a href='http://pfhyper.blogspot.com/'>here</a>.<br /><br /> For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to<br /> http://pfhyper.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.<br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-7266131764222423495?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-22551230627181958852010-04-19T22:42:00.001-05:002010-04-19T22:42:33.027-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><i>Birchwood Cafe is a sponsor of the FRESH film and Tracy Singleton (Birchwood owner) will be moderating the post panel discussions on Wed &amp; Thursday.</i><p />FRESH returns to Minneapolis just in time for EARTH DAY!  FRESH is celebrating their theatrical release with showings this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night @ 7pm at the Riverview Theater. <p /> FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.<p /> Among several main characters, FRESH features urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, the recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur, Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner, David Ball, challenging our Wal-Mart dominated economy.<p /> <a href="http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/d/freshthemovie/event/display-theater-event.sjs?event_KEY=19557">http://action.freshthemovie.com/p/d/freshthemovie/event/display-theater-event.sjs?event_KEY=19557</a><br />Advance tickets can also be purchased through the link above, at the Birchwood Counter and at the Riverview the night of each show. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/fresh-events">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-2255123062718195885?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-21403371693255867392010-04-06T15:31:00.001-05:002010-04-06T15:31:00.280-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><blockquote> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Court Says F.C.C. Cannot Require &lsquo;Net Neutrality&rsquo;</strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">By EDWARD WYATT</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Published: April 6, 2010</span>WASHINGTON &mdash; A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a sharp blow to the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to set the rules of the road for the Internet, ruling that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html?hp">via NY Times</a></p> <p>The bad news is that according to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the FCC has little clout in regulating net neutrality.</p> <p>The good news is:</p> <ol> <li>Congress may want to look even more closely at the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal. If we don't have a neutral net, Comcast can slow access to competitors' content and favor NBC and... </li> <li>Our legislative branch may finally decide to put a Net Neutrality law on the books.</li> </ol> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/bad-news-good-news-when-court-says-fcc-cant-r">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-2140337169325586739?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-90537630637168836452010-04-06T12:15:00.001-05:002010-04-06T12:15:10.472-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div> <blockquote> <div> <h3>Yelp's Legal Troubles Mount</h3> <p>A San Francisco furniture store this week added its name (and court papers) to the list of small businesses accusing Yelp of extortion.</p> <div>By&nbsp;<a href="http://www.inc.com/author/courtney-rubin">Courtney Rubin</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp; <span>Mar 18, 2010</span></div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div><strong><a href="http://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/03/third-lawsuit-filed-against-yelp.html">Story at inc.com</a></strong></div> <p /> <div>Via <a href="http://twitter.com/s4xton">@s4xton</a> I just heard about the lawsuits (now numbering threee) alleging Yelp blocks positive site reviews unless a business pays for advertising or will filter out negative reviews if you do buy. Yelp is denying it and says that the complainants don't understand how Yelp's filtering works in protecting users from fake or "shill" reviews. My own guess is that there are some aggressive (and possibly rogue) Yelp salespersons who are writing their own scripts.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/yelp-having-some-legal-problems">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-9053763063716883645?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-87430147227517510622010-04-02T16:31:00.003-05:002010-04-02T16:37:37.361-05:00<div class="posterous_autopost">Following up on the <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/pioneer-press-writer-kathie-jenkins-forgets-t">last</a> <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/borrowing-content-from-seward-profile">two</a> posts, the<i> <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/">Profile</a> </i>blog is sourced at Kathie Jenkins' <a href="http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_14792604?nclick_check=1"><i>Pioneer Press Restaurant</i> column</a>. Well, sort of. Seems somone forgot the opening "&lt;" of the &lt;a&gt; element resulting in a missing link but a visible URL. <p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/wQgD2HsD6hbzU6g89oBZpP4iF84gEUgVdG5tTJEUHngu5Uwq5Ves1e7Nypy2/screenPiPress.jpg" width="360" height="102" /> <p></p><div style="text-align: left;">I did send along a note to Ms. Jenkins informing her of the issue. <p> Ms. Jenkins apologized and explained that it was a last minute item written under deadline and she simply forgot. Thank you, Kathie. </p><p>Accidents will happen. For me, I still have this lingering doubt that not sourcing the <i>Star Tribune</i> or <i>New York Times</i> would have triggered an alarm along the way. Somebody must look over the content besides the writer. Of course if I'm a copy editor and I see "neighborhood blog" I have no idea what blog she is talking about. It would seem a good starting point to refer to the name of the blog in full (in this case <i>Seward Profile</i>). Then if you forget the link, someone would have a clue as to where to look. I'm realizing I should have asked for naming the blog in my email. Darn. A name without a link is arguably better than a link without a name. </p><p> Erica at <a href="http://freshmn.tumblr.com/">fresh.mn</a> was kind enough to retweet and link here. I'll close with her (re)tweet as I think she makes a good point.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/freshmn"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/IfbgdJ18WcMmmbvEid1Xmhs5amtNVRV1NJMmqUVmnz4cLynjL0xJ531VH6BU/freshmn.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="273" /></a><br /></div><p></p></div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/success-seward-profile-is-sourced">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-8743014722751751062?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-46515510193437868112010-04-02T10:59:00.001-05:002010-04-02T10:59:45.545-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>I've contacted the Pioneer Press via email about <a href="http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_14792604?nclick_check=1">republishing the Birchwood story</a> from the <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/birchwood-expansion-plans-update-from-tracy">Seward Profile</a> (<a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/pioneer-press-writer-kathie-jenkins-forgets-t">see last post</a>). I sent the email to Kathie Jenkins and Life editor Heidi Raschke.</p> <p>In the email, I pointed out the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/">Creative Commons license</a> I publish under prohibits commercial use of the content and it requires attribution. Given "fair use" under copyright, I don't really have a problem with summarizing and quoting a portion of the content even in a commercial venue. But <em>not</em> attributing and linking to the source <em>is not OK</em> and it's not something I expect to see in the twenty-first century from a major daily.</p> <p>I've asked for the link and suggested an apology might be in order. I'll keep you posted.</p> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote"> <p>We are all vying for attention on the web. Still we need to play by some basic rules and I don't think the size of your operation should make it OK to steal content from any of the many excellent local blogs that are providing relevant content to neighborhoods. I doubt if the Pioneer Press would appreciate my republishing its content and attributing it to "a local newspaper."</p> </blockquote> <p style="text-align: right;"><em>from my email to Pioneer Press</em></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/borrowing-content-from-seward-profile">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-4651551019343786811?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-32578048552667359702010-04-02T09:27:00.001-05:002010-04-02T09:27:41.154-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Kathie Jenkins at <em>Pioneer Press</em> read <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/birchwood-expansion-plans-update-from-tracy">the Seward Profile story on the Birchwood Cafe expansion</a> and then wrote about it in <a href="http://www.twincities.com/restaurants/ci_14792604?nclick_check=1">her <em>Restaurant News</em> column</a> ("A Tree Grows in Seward"). She sourced a "neighborhood blog" and didn't provide a link. <p /> Profile is one of my projects and Kathie, I'm happy to provide you with easy-to-serve copy-and-paste material but how about at least linking back to the source? Hey this is the web! You can still fix it! Just send folks to: <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/birchwood-expansion-plans-update-from-tracy">http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/birchwood-expansion-plans-update-from-tracy</a>. Thanks.<p /> All will be forgiven.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/pioneer-press-writer-kathie-jenkins-forgets-t">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-3257804855266735970?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-48499163999110102522010-03-30T13:29:00.001-05:002010-03-30T13:33:20.648-05:00<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>In the 2006 negotiations with US Internet (USI) to implement a mesh wireless (802.11) network over Minneapolis, the City was able to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement that included $500,000 in payments to a Digital Inclusion Fund (along with 5% of pre-tax income after the network was up and running). (<a href="http://pfhyper.com/DI/C-23781.pdf">See page C-1 of the contract</a>.) The money is granted to support non-profit digital inclusion projects in Minneapolis.</p> <p> So far the Minneapolis Digital Inclusion Fund Advisory Committee (DIFAC) has disbursed $400,000 of that $500,000—$200,000 over <a href="http://www.pfhyper.com/weblog/2008/02/minneapolis-unwired-digital-inclusion.html">2007</a> and another $200,000 in <a href="http://www.pfhyper.com/weblog/2009/03/2008-minneapolis-digital-inclusion.html">2008</a>. We (I am a member of DIFAC) plan on requesting proposals this year and disbursing at least some of the remaining $100,000.</p><p> During 2009, DIFAC finally drafted its rules for governance which includes terms for advisors and a plan to rotate off the current advisors over the next few years. Two advisers will be finishing their terms this year. (I'm one of them.) </p><p> <b>We are beginning the application process for new advisors.</b></p><p>If you are interested in forwarding the cause of digital inclusion in Minneapolis, consider applying and download the description and application and send them in by June 1. Details are in the documents.</p><p> <a href="http://pfhyper.com/DIFAC/DIF_Advisors_description.doc">DIF Advisors Description</a><br /><a href="http://pfhyper.com/DIFAC/DIF_Application.pdf">DIF Advisor Application (PDF)</a><br /><a href="http://pfhyper.com/DIFAC/DIF_App_v5.doc">DIF Advisor Application (MS Word)</a></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">Update: The application doesn't include contact information. You can send your completed application to Valerie Lee or contact her if you have questions:</span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span> Valerie C. Lee<br /> Community Philanthropy Officer<br /> The Minneapolis Foundation<br /> 800 IDS Center<br /> 80 South Eighth Street<br /> Minneapolis, MN 55402<br /> tel: (612) 672-3849<br /> fax: (612) 672-3846<br /> <a href="mailto:vlee@mplsfoundation.org">vlee@mplsfoundation.org</a><br /> <a href="http://www.MinneapolisFoundation.org">www.MinneapolisFoundation.org </a></span></p> <p></p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/minneapolis-digital-inclusion-fund-advisory-c">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-4849916399911010252?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-52706748629003009462010-03-21T13:23:00.001-05:002010-03-21T13:23:22.623-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <p>Google and Viacom (owner of MTV, BET, Paramount, and more) are fighting it out in court with Viacom contending that Google is no longer a "<a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi">safe harbor</a>" under the <a href="http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm">1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a> and must do more to ferret out and remove copyrighted material -- like Viacom's. Viacom is supporting its case with some old emails supposedly proving that Google relaxed its copyright policies after its 2006 YouTube purchase and that it knew very well that YouTube was a pirate haven of illegal video goods. Let's not forget to mention the "sour grapes" component here: Viacom wanted to buy YouTube too and Google beat them out.</p> <p>Whatever Google authorized in the past, in recent times they have added content ID tools to help companies identify and find pirated content on YouTube. They've done this to such a degree that they've fallen <a href="http://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property/guide-to-youtube-removals">somewhat afoul of the Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>.</p> <p>One issue that has surfaced is Viacom "continuously and secretly" uploading its own stuff to YouTube (self-pirating?). (Viacom disputes this and claims it only happened a few times.) From the YouTube blog:</p> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like <span style="font-style: italic;">The Daily Show</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">The Colbert Report</span> should remain on YouTube.</blockquote> <div>via <a href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html">youtube-global.blogspot.com</a></div> <p /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">The <a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2010/03/viacom-and-google-ugly-details-emerge-in-court-filings.html">Law Librarian Blog has a nice summary of points</a> around these issues and links to articles in the last paragraph. Although I agree with Law Librarian that "neither party to the suit has any lock on legal or moral purity," if I had to choose a side to cheer, it would be Google. Although both companies are looking at revenues and bottom lines, Viacom is trying to control content distribution in a media market that arguably should be moved towards more sharing. YouTube on the other hand may not be perfect but it is involved in sharing content globally at no direct cost to producers. For me, that's very much a move in the right direction.</div> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/youtube-blog-broadcast-yourself-1">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-5270674862900300946?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-2807344594399444942010-03-17T14:47:00.001-05:002010-03-17T14:47:17.538-05:00<div class='posterous_autopost'>Over the last couple of days Posterous has added new features. Most welcomed (by me anyway) are <a href="http://blog.posterous.com/new-feature-add-a-page-break-to-your-posts">the &quot;page breaks&quot;</a> which let you display a shortened version of a post on your main listing pages. You won&#39;t have to scroll and scroll now at sites that have longer posts (like my <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com">Seward Profile site</a> where the neighborhood e-newsletter can stretch out a ways). The feature is a new icon (<img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/5nbLlz1YMjg3YlhYlgR3yYP4HpkAJAmX7I5uoRuElN0mSSuUJZgzVBqoA3gS/pagebreakicon.jpg" width="24" height="25"/> )in the web editor or you can type &quot;#more&quot; on a new line in an email post like I&#39;m going to do right now.<br /> #more<br />The second feature is <a href="http://blog.posterous.com/new-feature-schedule-your-posts-for-the-futur">timed releases</a>. I don&#39;t have a need for this right now but as more people want to post to the Profile site, I could see spacing the announcements and posts out over the day. One downside of this feature is that there still is no time zone chooser in Posterous so you have to time your releases for Pacific time. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/posterous-adds-page-breaks-timed-releases">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-280734459439944494?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-50504822103132733842010-03-04T16:49:00.003-06:002010-03-09T12:15:11.933-06:00<div class="posterous_autopost"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" ><br />America's Digital Inclusion Summit</span></b></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" ><i><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Working Together To Expand Opportunity</span></b></i><b><i><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" ><br /><i><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;"> Through Universal Broadband Access</span></i></span></i></b><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Tuesday, March 9th at the Maplewood Performing Arts Theatre</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" ><a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?cat=Maplewood+Community+Center&amp;address=2100+White+Bear+Ave+N&amp;city=Maplewood&amp;state=MN&amp;zipcode=55109-3710&amp;country=US" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Map</span></a> </span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" > 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >FCC Broadcast of National Broadband Plan</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" > 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Audience and Panel Community Conversation </span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" > Rick King, Chair, Governor’s Ultra High Speed Broadband Task Force</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Catherine Settanni, Founder, DigitalAccess.org</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Sam Levy, Vice President and CIO, University of St. Thomas</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Susan Nemitz, Director, Ramsey County Library</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Mike Reszler, Director, Digital Media, Minnesota Public Radio|American Public Media<br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;color:red;" >If you are unable to come for the entire event, please register below, and join us from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM for lunch and a Community Conversation.</span></b></span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" >Join the <b><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;"><a href="http://www.broadband.gov/" target="_blank">Federal Communications Commission </a></span></b>and the<b><span style="font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;"> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/" target="_blank">John S. and James L. Knight Foundation</a></span></b> for an overview of the recommendations in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan meant to ensure that all Americans are included in the broadband era. As the FCC prepares to deliver the Plan to Congress on March 17th, hear perspectives from Chairman Genachowski, members of Congress, Knight Foundation President &amp; CEO Alberto Ibargüen and people from across the country that have benefited from broadband. Help create solutions that drive broadband adoption for all Americans. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Live</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" > at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Videocast</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" > at the FCC Commission Room, 445 12th SW, Washington DC</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(6, 79, 125);font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;" >Webcast</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;color:black;" > with a Community Conversation at the Maplewood Performing Arts Theatre, 2100 White Bear Avenue, Maplewood, MN</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style=";font-family:Bodoni MT,serif;font-size:100%;" >Please register for the event at: <a href="http://digisummitstpaul.org/" title="blocked::http://digisummitstpaul.org/" target="_blank">digisummitstpaul.org</a></span></p> </div></div></div> <p style="font-size:10px;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/join-us-march-9-in-maplewood-for-a-digital-in">Peter's posterous</a></span> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-5050482210313273384?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-61749570771302457012010-02-22T17:24:00.001-06:002010-02-22T17:24:44.846-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://twitter.com/patrickrhone">Patrick Rhone</a> and I will spend Friday morning talking micro blogs at CoCo Coworking in St. Paul. (<a href="http://cocomsp.ning.com/events/battle-of-the-microblogs">Get the event details here</a>.) Patrick is a <a href="http://tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> aficionado; I evangelize <a href="http://posterous.com">Posterous</a>. The plan is to for one of us to bring up a feature from our favorite tool and describe it then the other one of us will respond with how their blog does it better, different, worse, or not at all. We&#39;ll alternate on who initiates the feature descriptions. <p /> After we are done with that portion of the show, Patrick and I will hang out to answer questions and help you get an account going on Posterous (which will likely dominate) or Tumblr. <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/IXSlnb8SbK1jab6FLEkLIgNuXzZ70F30FgG1TBNVJhl4AopbFjtPKR3zaBYg/338.gif" width="12" height="12"/> <p /> Join us! The deal includes breakfast. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/battle-of-the-micro-blogs-this-friday-at-coco">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-6174957077130245701?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-73313149969246948872010-02-16T13:40:00.001-06:002010-02-16T13:40:25.895-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski&rsquo;s speech at the <a href="http://winter.narucmeetings.org/">National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners</a> (NARUC) winter meetings today stressed our country's need for a robust and inclusive broadband infrastructure and discussed the upcoming <a href="http://www.broadband.gov/">National Broadband Plan</a>.</p> <p><strong>Genachowski's Speech at NARUC</strong><br />&ldquo;<a href="http://is.gd/8wh09">Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity</a>&rdquo;</p> <p>I've pulled out some highlights below.</p> <p>Genachowski really gets our need for broadband and how it will change the fundamental nature of business, education, communication, and social structure for the US. He brings up the comparison of the Internet to the interstate highway system and finds it lacking:</p> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">Some compare high-speed Internet to building the interstate highway system in the 1950s. It&rsquo;s a tempting comparison, but imperfect.<p />In terms of transformative power, broadband is more akin to the advent of electricity. Both broadband and electricityare what some call &ldquo;general purpose technologies&rdquo;--technologies that are a means to a great many ends, enabling innovations in a wide arrayof human endeavors.<p /> Electricity reshaped the world--extending dayinto night, kicking the Industrial Revolution into overdrive, and enabling the invention of a countless number of devices and equipment that today we can&rsquo;t imagine being without.<br /></blockquote> <p>Speaking of business connectivity, he says:</p> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">...many small businesses do not have access to a basic broadband connection. One estimate indicates that 26 percent of rural business sites do not have access to a standard cable modem and 9 percent don&rsquo;t have DSL. More than 70 percent of small businesses have little or no mobile broadband.<br /></blockquote> <p>He mentioned an exciting initiative from the Broadband Plan:</p> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">Our plan will set goals for the U.S. to have the world&rsquo;s largest market of very high-speed broadband users. A &ldquo;100 Squared&rdquo; initiative--100 million households at 100 megabits per second--to unleash American ingenuity and ensure that businesses, large and small, are created here, move here, and stay here.<br /></blockquote> <p>He follows that with a call to "stretch beyond 100 megabits" as Google is doing with its gigabit testbed initiative. Read that as a subtle message to incumbents that they should start looking at stretching their capabilities to get people connected at ultra-high-speeds.<p /> He also mentions tweaking the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_service_fund">Universal Service Fund</a> as a "once-in-a-generation transformation... cutting waste, driving efficiencies, and converting it over time to broadband support so that all Americans can enjoy the benefits of 21st century communications networks." In other words, he says, we treat broadband just like President Roosevelt treated telephone service when he signed the 1934 Communications Act.</p> <p>Genachowski&rsquo;s understanding that broadband should be equivalent to electricity and telephony is the key of these remarks. The benefits of ubiquitous broadband will far outweigh the costs in building out the infrastructure. Our political leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, need to get this and must fund wisely the projects that will achieve the task.</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/fcc-chairman-genachowskis-speech-at-naruc-tod">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-7331314996924694887?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-22781729685161793882010-02-11T10:01:00.001-06:002010-02-11T10:01:46.704-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <div> <div><img src="http://tech.mn/wp-content/authors/peterfleck-7.jpg" height="60" alt="" width="60" /></div> <h3><a href="http://tech.mn/news/2010/02/10/s-f-no-2254-broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate/">S.F. No. 2254 Broadband Bill Introduced in MN Senate</a></h3> </div> <p><span>February 10, 2010 | by <span>Peter Fleck</span></span> <a href="http://tech.mn/news/2010/02/10/s-f-no-2254-broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate/#comments">No Comments</a> <span><span><a href="http://tech.mn/news/2010/02/10/s-f-no-2254-broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate#" title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc."><span>Share</span></a></span></span></p> <div><span><a href="http://tech.mn/news/category/networks/" title="View all posts in Networks" rel="category tag">Networks</a></span></div> <p>Last Wednesday, State Senators Prettner, Solon, Doll, Scheid and Rosen introduced <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S2254.0.html&amp;session=ls86" target="_blank">S.F. No. 2254</a> which sets state goals for the deployment and speed of high-speed broadband. The bill has been referred to Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications Committee for a hearing scheduled tomorrow, Feb 11th at 3pm (stay tuned).</p> <p>The bill sets a statewide&nbsp; goal that by 2015:</p> <p><span></span></p> <p>“All state residents and businesses have access to high-speed broadband that provides minimum download speeds of ten to 20 megabits per second and minimum upload speeds of five to ten megabits per second.”</p> <p>Additionally, “That Minnesota be one of the top five states for universally accessible broadband speeds, in the top five states for broadband access,” and&nbsp; in the “Top 15 of nations globally for broadband access.”</p> <p><em>Interestingly, no mention of affordability.<br /> </em></p> <p>The download and upload speeds and the 2015 deadline are recommendations from the <a href="http://www.ultra-high-speed-mn.org/CM/Custom/UHS%20Broadband%20Report_Full.pdf" target="_blank">Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Report</a> released in November 2009.</p> <p>Related: TECHdotMN<a href="http://tech.mn/news/2010/02/03/get-to-know-2-rep-sheldon-johnson-related-broadband-news/" target="_self"> interview with Rep Sheldon Johnson</a>, the Chair of the Telecommunications Regulations and Infrastructure Division.</p> <p>h/t&nbsp; Blandin Blog for the <a href="http://blandinonbroadband.org/2010/02/04/s-f-no-2254-broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate/" target="_blank">pointer</a>.</p> <div> <h3>No Comments</h3> <div> <p>Post a comment</p> </div> </div> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://tech.mn/news/2010/02/10/s-f-no-2254-broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate/">tech.mn</a></div> <p>My new "job" is blogging about Minnesota-related broadband & Internet over at Tech{dot}MN. So expect some "sharing" between these accounts.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/broadband-bill-introduced-in-mn-senate">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-2278172968516179388?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-2230630488891031862010-02-09T11:34:00.001-06:002010-02-09T11:34:24.945-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/mEy0TEe53oX8t1NT8fUbXclFUtdpDq4yQiPFWvWtmzmZRX7rd2BLQdoCRbt9/Tumblr.jpg" width="243" height="59"/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pfhyper/b8dkp1Lm4t8eB1ltHmXmcff8BfhXsZq95XgNyIPXWwmG8ze32YfFgiL2Xhlj/Posterous_-_The_place_to_post_.jpg" width="240" height="240"/> <p /> If you think Posterous is the uncool microblog and Tumblr really rocks, you could be the one! The plan is to talk microblogs at <a href="http://cocomsp.com/">CoCo in St. Paul</a> on Feb. 26 including some kind of "Battle of the Microblogs" event. For your time, you can hang out at CoCo for the day and get some free breakfast. This should be a fun and friendly challenge.<p /> You can reply in the comments to this post (or use any other means of communication you might share with me).</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/posterous-evangelist-seeks-tumblr-evangelist">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-223063048889103186?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-81746026027048374342010-02-02T09:09:00.004-06:002010-02-02T09:39:04.801-06:00<div class="posterous_autopost"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Perhaps what is needed is to let the dinosaurs become extinct and be replaced by swift birds and mammals.<br /></blockquote><br />I really like that quote by Prof. Vivek Wadhwa. By dinosaurs, he's referring to the large software consultancy firms that seem to have a stranglehold on government computing hardware and software and in sustaining those systems for big bucks. By "swift birds and mammals" he's talking about 21st century start-ups and entrepreneurs who build with open source and agile systems. (Prof. Washwa is an entrepreneur turned academic and a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University.)<br /><br />He has two articles over at TechCrunch that look at bringing Silicon Valley tech expertise to Sacramento (capital of California) and rebuilding the legacy computer systems. In particular, he points to the unemployment insurance system. California has budgeted $50 million to upgrade it. Wadhwa bets "the Valley's entrepreneurs could build this system from scratch in less than a year for less than $5 million." A couple of entrepreneurs have already agreed.<br /><br />Most states are probably in the same predicament as California with old COBOL (and earlier) systems that they continue to maintain but are not easily changed or expanded. Cities are in the same predicament. <i>What an incredible opportunity for software and developer entrepreneurs to begin discussions with government IT shops about rebuilding systems for the future.</i> We (who pay taxes) are looking at system rebuilds for a tenth of the cost of an upgrade of an ancient system!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/bringing-silicon-valley-to-sacramento-=%20why-entrepreneurs-need-to-help-rebuild-californias-it-systems/">Bringing Silicon Valley to Sacramento: Why Entrepreneurs Need to Help Rebuild California's IT Systems</a><br /><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/calling-all-entrepreneurs-california-needs-you/">Calling All Entrepreneurs: California Needs You</a> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/can-entrepreneurs-lower-our-taxes-by-rebuidin">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-8174602602704837434?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-88754571420504047962010-01-29T12:01:00.001-06:002010-01-29T12:01:06.777-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><ol><li><b>Good thing:</b> pasted picture and text from a web site in Gmail rich text editor and the picture appeared in Gmail and at the Posterous blog when I sent the email! (I think you have to enable the &quot;embed picture&quot; thingie in Gmail labs to do this.)</li> <li><b>Bad thing:</b> PST timestamp. If you&#39;re CST, all your posts are stamped 2 hours earlier. If you change one and then forget to change the next one, then they get out of order. Please, please fix this Posterous People!</li> <li><b>Bad thing:</b> Editing at Posterous and saving often results in Posterous telling you it can&#39;t find the page. Use the back button to go back to the edited post and try again. If it still doesn&#39;t work, copy the changes, go to the <i>Manage</i> area and try editing again and saving. It usually works the second time around. This is a really frustrating problem.</li> <li><b>Tip:</b> Send items in as private by sending to <i><a href="mailto:private@yoursite.posterous.com">private@yoursite.posterous.com</a></i>. Then you can edit and view before going public. I usually do this when I use the <i>Share on Posterous </i>bookmarklet. <br /> </li><li><b>Tip:</b> If you send to <i>posterous@</i><i><a href="http://yoursite.posterous.com">yoursite.posterous.com</a> </i>it doesn&#39;t auto-post anything. <br /></li><li><b>Confusing:</b> If you are a contributor on someone else&#39;s Posterous blog and you use the &quot;post&quot; address for email, it will auto-post to <b>your </b>Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc. accounts and not the ones that belong to the site where you contribute. So use the tip from #5.</li> </ol> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/some-notes-on-using-posterous">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-8875457142050404796?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-91395803783102586002010-01-21T17:06:00.002-06:002010-01-21T17:09:59.457-06:00<div class="posterous_autopost"><p><a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-01-21/quyhxhAHepwbeaJJCzneEEidHtHlCzxCglpltqCbqeGBjDgCtbprudEnEHCH/Noche_Y_Dia.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-01-21/quyhxhAHepwbeaJJCzneEEidHtHlCzxCglpltqCbqeGBjDgCtbprudEnEHCH/Noche_Y_Dia.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375" /></a> </p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/dia-and-noche-kitties-update-they-still-like">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-9139580378310258600?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-51976425240829723532010-01-14T14:33:00.001-06:002010-01-14T14:33:42.723-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><a href="http://www.clearwire.com/">Clearwire</a> has a proposal in to provide a WiMax wireless network for Brooklyn Park. This will be the first WiMax network that I know of in this area. No investment by the Brooklyn Park; customers would pay for the service. Ostensibly they want to provide connectivity to people on lower incomes but prices they are mentioning do not seem very "low income" to me. (Maybe there is a tier they are not mentioning.)</p> <p>US Internet president Joe Caldwell says that Clearwire's arrival "doesn't bother me a bit." That's interesting given that early on in the Minneapolis Wi-Fi deployment, US Internet was hopeful that other cities surrounding Minneapolis would want to contract with US Internet for wireless services. There was even talk of customers having the ability to use Wi-Fi across city borders if US Internet was the provider.</p> <p>I would tend to be worried if I was US Internet. I don't think anything is stopping a company like Clearwire from providing services in Minneapolis if they could hang the transmitters. They could target areas of high usage like downtown and not be under any contract to cover the City. That could be a potent threat to US Internet's business model. (This is all conjecture on my part, of course. There could be something legal prohibiting another wireless provider.)</p> <p>Read the story at <a href="http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/clwrd_brooklyn-park-first-to-benefit-as-wimax-moves-in-the-city-is-first-in-line-for-the-new-service-and--692685.html">tradingmarkets.com</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/brooklyn-park-getting-wimax">Peter's posterous</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-5197642524082972353?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-91272684353984101162010-01-14T10:08:00.001-06:002010-01-14T10:08:46.441-06:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="minnesota_news_features_2010_01_13_sewardmarketreopens_20100113_64_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/e_player.swf" flashvars="name=minnesota/news/features/2010/01/13/sewardmarketreopens_20100113_64&amp;prependName=underwriting/ads/mpr_sponsorship_msg_64&amp;clickReport=minnesota.publicradio.org/player/L25/1953076022/x90/MPRadio/media_player_mpr/1_1/774d764a2b6b7450514777414359416e?_RM_AGENT_=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Windows%3B+U%3B+Windows+NT+5.1%3B+en-US%3Brv%3A1.8.1.12%29+Gecko%2F20080201+Firefox%2F2.0.0.12&amp;starttime=&amp;endtime=&amp;const=1263485036" height="24" wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="199" style="" /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/13/seward-market-reopens/">minnesota.publicradio.org</a></div> <p>Story at MPR on Maket's reopening one week after the homicides.</p></embed></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/seward-market-opens-story-at-minnesota-public">Seward Profile</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-9127268435398410116?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-76494945073150113222010-01-08T19:16:00.003-06:002010-01-08T22:43:45.526-06:00Since July 12 this year, I've been using <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posterous</a> as the <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/">front end for this blog</a>. I think every post since then started out as a Posterous submission. Posterous is an amazing blogging tool where you can do almost anything via email including auto-posting to <a href="http://twitter.com/pfhyper">Twitter</a>, Facebook, <a href="http://flickr.com/pfhyper">Flickr</a> (photos), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/pfhyper">YouTube</a> (video), <a href="http://www.scribd.com/pfhyper">Scribd</a> (documents), and also other blogs like this one, <a href="http://pfhyper.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>, or WordPress sites. Mileage varies and I've had to come here and do some additional formatting but for quick-and-easy, there is nothing else that equals it. (Sorry Tumblr, but I understand you don't process video as slickly as Posterous.)<br /><br />In terms of categorizing my blogs, this one is my "business/serious" blog and Posterous is my more personal space. Everything here (since July) is also at Posterous and some things (like <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/kitty-chronicles-the-cleansing-video">cat pictures</a>) are at Posterous but not here (usually). Tumblr is also in the mix and gets many of the posts just because I like to keep a presence with the cool kids there.<br /><br />Things changed a bit recently. My neighborhood in Minneapolis (Seward) lost it's newspaper and news web site this year due to financial constraints. So I started a <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/">hyperlocal community news blog called Seward Profile for the Seward Neighborhood</a> using Posterous. I have a longer range master plan to create a system that any community can plug in and start blogging. To fund it all, I've put in a proposal at the Knight News Challenge (and I've been bumped to the second round).<br /><br />Now it gets a bit confusing. I added my personal pfhyper gmail address as a contributor to the Seward. It seems when I contribute via my personal gmail, it triggers all the autoposting attached to my pfhyper.posterous.com account including posting to this blog. I wasn't aware of that until today.<br /><br />It's generated some strange postings. I posted a photo piece last night but it needed editing at Posterous. The problem is the Posterous editing doesn't change the post here at the PF Hyper blog so some of the photos are missing captions or have the wrong captions. In another instance, I think I deleted a post and reposted it but it didn't get deleted at this blog so it appears twice. I'm taking care of the issues now and I've figured out how not to trigger all my auto-posting when I contribute to the Seward blog.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-7649494507315011322?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-29253194986119254112010-01-07T15:35:00.002-06:002010-01-08T22:47:58.422-06:00<span style="font-style: italic;">This is a reposting of my article at the <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com">Seward Profile News blog</a>, a news site for the Seward Neighborhood in Minneapolis. </span><br /><br />This isn't a personal blog, of course, but today I'm going to take the liberty of writing my story from last night as it relates to the tragedy. Partly it's community "news" I think and partly it is helping me in processing the event.<p> Last night I headed to Seward Co-op about 7:45. Mary was having friends over and I planned to park on Seward Co-op's public Wi-Fi and have some deli hot bar dinner. I was all bundled up, Sorrel boots bike messenger bag strapped to my back, and a long scarf. </p><p> We follow the alleys to the Co-op. I live on 24th Ave. E just south of Franklin. The alley behind our house "T's" as you approach Franklin Avenue and you must go left or right travelling parallel to Franklin. I went right (west). A few steps and I was behind the Seward Market. I heard a loud "bang." It sounded like wood breaking but I thought it could be a gunshot. As I got to the street and looked toward Franklin, I saw someone exiting the Market. It didn't feel right and I avoided the person thinking if that was a gunshot this was the shooter. I circled Bethany Lutheran Church and went through the parking lot to Franklin and walked back to Market. Two men were approaching me. They had heard the shots too. They reached the market before I did, crossed 25th and told me there were bodies in the doorway and store. I called 911 immediately to report a shooting and we walked to the Market entry. 911 dispatch started to ask if there was a robbery and I said "No! There are bodies here. Three bodies. We need an ambulance. " Police and ambulance arrived shortly. (I'm not sure why I thought I only heard one shot.)</p><p> I really appreciate the kind words from so many of you checking to see if I'm OK and I will try to get back to you all personally. I am. Of course, I am still processing what happened and my nearness to the tragedy itself. I am so saddened by this event but still feel that I live in a safe urban area. This is a fluke and "not indicative of our community and will not detract from our vibrant, diverse and welcoming neighborhood" (from the open letter now circulating). </p><p> My heart goes out to the families of the victims. </p><p>Please join your neighors in a candlelight flashlight vigil at the Seward Market (2431 East Franklin) this evening at 7:45. Bethany Lutheran (right across the street) will open it's doors for warmth and Seward Co-op will provide hot drinks and snacks. </p><p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com/">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/tragedy-in-seward-my-story">Seward Profile</a> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-2925319498611925411?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-17098791305245777112010-01-05T22:10:00.002-06:002010-01-05T22:28:32.290-06:00<a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/80666157.html">Minneapolis is officially unwired says the Star Tribune</a>:<p /><blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">The $20 million Minneapolis wireless Internet network has been completed after 2 1/2 difficult years of technical and political delays. The city&#39;s next step: getting the police and fire departments using it this year.<br /></blockquote>The City&#39;s basic requirement was for coverage of 95% of it&#39;s 59.5 miles and performance meets the City&#39;s expectations, according to Minneapolis Chief Information Officer Lynn Willenbring. There are 16,500 private subscribers, according to Joe Caldwell, marketing vice president of US Internet, which owns and operates the network. The company hopes for 30,000 individual customers. <p />Getting City departments to use the wireless network is another story. So far Sprint cellular services trump US Internet Wi-Fi services with the City using less than half of the $1.25 million a year worth of services it&#39;s paying for. Luckily  unused money can roll over to future years of the 10-year contract. (What happens if there is still unused money after ten years?)<p /> <a href="http://www.muniwireless.com/2010/01/05/minneapolis-completes-municipal-wi-fi-network/">Esme Vos wrote about the network today at MuniWireless</a>, stressing the need to upgrade to 802.11n units sooner rather than later if it&#39;s not been done already. (I don&#39;t think it has.) <p /> US Internet has improved customer service in the last year and now sends out (and charges for) a technician on each install. General satisfaction of users on the system seems to be growing. I&#39;m seeing far fewer complaints via my Google Alerts than in previous years. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/minneapolis-unwired-the-network-is-just-about">Peter's posterous</a> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-1709879130524577711?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-19602327147516909952010-01-02T14:25:00.001-06:002010-01-02T14:25:37.584-06:00<a href="http://www.sng.org/index.html">Seward</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward,_Minneapolis">Neighborhood</a> on the east side of Minneapolis and bordering the Mississippi River, has had a community newspaper, the <i>Seward Profile</i> then <i>The Bridge</i> (and more recently the <a href="http://www.bridgelandnews.org/">Bridgeland online news site</a>), for a long, long time. (The Profile may have been the first community newspaper in Minneapolis. I&#39;m still trying to verify that.) In 2009, due to finances, the newspaper ceased publication and the online site stopped updating. Seward was left with no distributed news source.<p /> The <a href="http://www.sng.org/index.html">Seward Neighborhood Group</a> (SNG) sends out an <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/sng-newsletter-december-18-2009">email biweekly newsletter</a> which covers SNG meetings and a few community events. The Seward Neighbors Forum is another news source with a total subscription base of about 300 (Seward population is 7,000.) (I co-manage the Forum.) Even with these, there is a news hole.<p /> The SNG plans on publishing and delivering a quarterly news sheet of some kind in 2010. This will help but I think we still need to find a way to &quot;report&quot; more on what&#39;s going on in the neighborhood and even dig out the small events which could benefit from wider exposure. Of course, I think the Internet is probably the best way to do this so on December 18, I launched the <a href="http://sewardprofile.posterous.com/">Seward Profile News Blog</a>. <p /> It&#39;s my hope that we can use the news blog as a source for print stories in the quarterly news sheet. But beyond that, I think we are at a tipping point in providing current and relevant news online and keeping it very, very local (or hyperlocal which is a somewhat new term for this sort of thing). <p /> Of course to do this, you still need some kind of editing structure and you need some reporters or journalists out there sending in stories. My plan is to enlist folks in the community (anyone interested really) to provide the news. To start, I&#39;ll serve as editor, but long-term, I&#39;d like to see a community person take on that role and somehow find funding for a stipend (maybe $200 a month?). <p /> The qualifications of the &quot;citizen journalists&quot; I&#39;m looking for are very basic, especially on the technology side. First, you can write engagingly and you are interested in the neighborhood. As for &quot;professional journalism&quot; qualifications, you can learn them as necessary. The main ones are don&#39;t write fiction and source all your statements <i>or</i> clearly mark them as opinion. <p /> As for the technology side, a new (free) blogging tool is emerging called <a href="http://posterous.com">Posterous</a> and if you know how to email, you can post to the news blog. (If you don&#39;t know how to email, I&#39;ll teach you.) Posterous is an amazing new type of blog called a &quot;microblog&quot; which is set up to allow very quick posting. If you want to add photos, simply attach them and Posterous will display them with your piece. Same with video. This ease of publishing should see Posterous being used more and more for small group and community blogging. No other service currently offers the ease of use of Posterous. <p /> <a href="http://is.gd/5noCE">I have applied to the Knight News Challenge</a> for funding of this project. I want to create a kind of turnkey system for communities to use to establish an online news blog. I&#39;ll also be seeking other funding as soon as I find a fiscal agent. (Knight News Challenge doesn&#39;t limit proposals to only nonprofits so I could apply for that one as myself.)<p /> I once had a dream of becoming an editor and publisher for a small newspaper. The web and blogging has somewhat allowed me to fulfill that dream. This step takes me a bit closer. <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/resurrecting-online-news-in-seward-neighborho">Peter's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-1960232714751690995?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6471028.post-63804487570767455712009-12-31T11:43:00.001-06:002009-12-31T11:43:43.934-06:00<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4273.html#">Sramana Mitra believes in the importance of entrepreneurship to the world economy. As a writer and entrepreneur, she assists others in learning how to build an organization. She joins Phil and Scott to discuss her strategies. In addition to presenting her thoughts on entrepreneurship, she also offers useful details about how to create jobs, how to find money to for company creation and some of the factors important for success.</a><br /></blockquote> <p><br /><div id="quicktime_embed-gCcAmyeaHe"> <embed href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/audio/download/ITC.TM-SramanaMitra-2009.10.19.mp3" scale="aspect" src="http://posterous.com/mp3player/mp3_shell.png" autoplay="false" type="video/quicktime" height="100" target="myself" controller="false" width="500"> </embed> </div> <div id="flash_embed-gCcAmyeaHe"> <embed src="/mp3player/posterousplayer.swf" height="100" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fitc.conversationsnetwork.org%2Faudio%2Fdownload%2FITC.TM-SramanaMitra-2009.10.19.mp3" width="500" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" /> </div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> var agent=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var is_iphone = (agent.indexOf('mobile')!=-1) && ((agent.indexOf('iphone')!=-1) || (agent.indexOf('ipod')!=-1)); if (is_iphone) { $('quicktime_embed-gCcAmyeaHe').show(); $('flash_embed-gCcAmyeaHe').hide(); } else { $('flash_embed-gCcAmyeaHe').show(); $('quicktime_embed-gCcAmyeaHe').hide(); } </script></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pfhyper.posterous.com/phil-windley-discusses-entrepreneurship-with">Peter's posterous</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6471028-6380448757076745571?l=www.pfhyper.com%2Fweblog%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Peter Fleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291099009923490994noreply@blogger.com0