As most of you know, last weekend was a flurry of graduation parties in Northfield. My family dropped in at the home of our friends Bruce Anderson and Anne Larson…
Category: <span>Technology</span>
A friend sent me this story yesterday: In a dramatic act of biblio-immolation to protest “society’s diminishing support for the printed word,” Tom Wayne staged a book burning in front…
We recently received a comment through our Contact Us page, accusing Locally Grown of sponsoring racism because of something that was posted by one of the local blogs we show…
A colleague of mine, Lee LeFever, posted this screencast video on RSS to his Common Craft blog this week. Since Northfield’s civic blogosphere depends heavily on RSS, and since many…
I saw this article in the Sunday Strib: In a hurry for ultrafast Internet: Eagan sees radically accelerated access speeds as an economic development tool, and it’s looking for a…
Just so you know what you’re being spared, our spam filter has intercepted more than EIGHT HUNDRED comment-spams in the past 24 hours (most for cheap drugs and pornography, with…
The Intelligent Community Forum will be announcing its Most Intelligent Community of the Year award in May. The Intelligent Community list isn’t based on Ph.D’s per capita; if it were,
Significantly, there are no American cities among the finalists. In the last five years only three American cities have even been nominated, and we’ve never gotten top honors. Rightfully so; we’re way behind the curve in the New Global Economy despite having pretty much invented it.
What’s going on here?
According to the ICF, in the broadband economy, “adaptability outweighs legacy, skills rather than resources are the keys to the future, and innovation, not location, creates a competitive advantage.” Sounds good: Creative Class plus tech infrastructure equals economic strength.
I wish Northfield had a good technological infrastructure. We’re working on it, but there’s a lot of catching up to do. I’m preparing a broadband/tech primer which I’ll probably present to the EDA in February, and when I have that together, I’ll post it here as well, to provide some definitions and an overview of the issue.
This year’s Intelligent Community finalists are:
Our home cable modem died over the weekend and when Robbie stopped at Charter’s office in Lakeville today to get it replaced, she was told that we could upgrade from…
The Northfield Historical Society is having their annual auction on Saturday night… dubbed the Magical History Tour (PDF poster). The Fab Five? I’ll be there taking crowd/socializing photos like I…