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Submitted by Rick on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 7:38am.
There's a very interesting piece up at the Center for Citizen Media about how advocates can sometimes be the best reporters in certain situations:
When I think about this at a local level, it makes sense. The local orgs have the expertise and experience that makes them the best source of news. Thus, I would trust Bread & Roses to have the most current information about homelessness in Olympia, and I would expect SafePlace to have the best information about DV. All that's required is to provide a channel for these organizations to report that information to the community.
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channels?
Submitted by chad360 on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:10am.Channels as in behavior like blogging or technology like RSS? Channels as practice?
What channels need to be made available besides what already is in place?
To me it seems more behavior, as folks in orgs blog more and content gets RSS'd out to community aggregators like OlyBlog's "OlyNews" (for instance), or like that Tacoma site Emmett link'd...
...community wire service stuff (been around since bulletin boards started).
Although, my own experience with all strata of orgs is that only some contain any "best information" worth sharing, I'm curious what folks think of the pay model like TC Pro-Net?
To some extent, I see a pay model creating a system of meshed access points that create a community network, and then layers of user content flowing (more access>more users>more content)...
...create "at-cost" community wholesale Internet access in hopes of facilitating use...
...but then again, I can see the same goal being accomplished by volunteers and donations.
To me, "channels" means one thing: access, and access starts with costs that users pay, so any real change will involve building capacity in our community, not any one site (even OlyBlog =).
Let's make the "digital divide" extinct in Olympia.
...any thoughts?
Free Community Wi-Fi
Submitted by Thad Curtz on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:31am.I keep thinking about this, and have even got several of the Meraki mesh link routers sitting in my back room, waiting patiently to see if I ever get around to trying to do my block...
Mesh networking's also at the center of the Media Lab's One Laptop Per Child project's shifting and wavering scheming about expanding access on other continents through a $100 laptop (now $200 at least).
Of course, free wireless doesn't help if you don't have a computer already, but it's a step toward universal access.
Really?
Submitted by chad360 on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:41am.I'm an Meraki early adopter as well =)...the one-node ENA FreeNet uses Meraki technology...
I have pursued community WiFi as far as getting info on city-owned water towers and looking up wholesale outlets like NoaNET...as well as sitting in on the TCTV study group on the CoO downtown WiFi plan.
...One local wholesale provider even went so far as to quote wireless backbone service with a tower from the NOC in Tumwater into the Eastside.
Thad, I'm all ears =)
I have a consulting business, a 501(c)(3) designed for community development and chaired by Dr. Steve DeTray (UW), and an interest in "at cost" information utilities & Internet access.