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• Garrick Speaking at Civic League’s Future of Policy Making in MN Series On August 22nd, as part of the Citizens Leagues’ 2006 Summer Policy Series, I’ll be joining Tom Swain, Jean LeVander King, Jen Alstad, and Steve Borsch for a conversation on the Future of the Web and Civic Engagement. Should be an interesting conversation - especially since it kicks off at 7:30am. Here’s my initial thoughts on
• Star Tribune on Muni WiFi: FUD or Just Wrong? The Strib’s Steve Alexander is on a Muni-WiFi bashing kick. In Sunday’s Slowdown in the Fast Lane, the angle was how the forthcoming Minneapolis muni-WiFi will make the current cable and DSL offerings look paltry and non-competitive. Oh - and we don’t get the maximum bandwidth out of our current pipes anyway. Really? Muni-WiFi isn’t
• A Christmas to Remember I just finished shoveling the last couple inches of the light, fluffly snow that’s been steadily falling this past week. A perfect end to the best Christmas I’ve had in two decades. Some highlights: Having my immediate family all in the same room at the same time on Christmas day. This in itself made the day. To
• MN Governor e-Debate 2006 First Impressions Steven Clift is moderating the 2006 MN Gubernatorial candidate e-dbate. I’ve been following along via the RSS feed. Ever day a new question - perfect. This is exactly how I like my politics - integrated into how I do everything already (RSS). The questions are good, the answers are surprisingly good considering it’s a ‘political debate’.
• That Giant Buzzing Sound You Hear is Me-dia Filtering and Aggregating Fellow local me-dia mogul Chuck Olsen got some nice press in the Sunday Strib this week. A nice write up, and I’m glad Chuck got the press - he deserves it. Afterwards though, I had the distinct feeling that the Strib, in their haste to cover every base, actually missed the interesting bits (that you