What Nevada County Could Do With A Regional High-Speed Network

If you doubt the value of a local high-speed fiber-optic network, consider what the people of Ten Sleep, Wyoming (population 300) have done with theirs:

New global outsourcing hub — Wyoming?
When it comes to call centers filled with English-speaking employees, India likely comes to mind. Not a tiny town in Wyoming called Ten Sleep, population about [...]

The Best Way to Woo Google

There’s an interesting discussion going on over in Jeff Pelline’s blog about the Google Fiber for Communities project. One of Jeff’s readers, Bob Garza, posted a pointer to an interesting article about the project in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury (“Gaga for Google: Communities compete for high-speed Internet“).
The Mercury article is entertaining because it shows the [...]