Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 04/27/2011
When your head (and the rest of your body) is in the clouds 8 miles high, it is difficult to access the cloud. Sure, in-flight wireless does make it possible to use the Internet from a plane, but the slow-speed points to the time not so long ago when 56k dial-up was high-speed. So, while short…
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WordPress Helping Build Community – From MLL to Japan
The Japan Fundraiser at Moreland Little League complex, referenced in the previous issue of the Viodi View, was a success thanks to the hard work and dedication of the families and businesses associated with the Moreland MLL community. The boundaries of community, in this case, are not restricted by the lines of geography or even…
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Viodi View – 04/13/2011
3DTV is real and growing more rapidly than earlier technologies, such as the DVD. The market for this new format is still maturing, but there is no doubt that it will revolutionize content production, requiring new skill sets for content producers. The verdict is still out on ATSC-M (mobile video by broadcasters); no doubt, the…
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Economic Gardening Instead of Big Business Hunting
50 billion dollars; that is how much communities and states spend each year wooing businesses from outside their area, according to Dr. Glenda Humiston, USDA Rural Development State Director for California. Speaking at last week’s Western Telecom Alliance Convention, Humiston likened this jockeying for out-of-town businesses as a zero-sum game that has limited benefit in…
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Viodi View – 03/31/2011
“Change is our friend,” so said Brent Christensen president of the Minnesota Telecom Association at its 102nd Annual Convention in Minneapolis this week. With the retirement of former president, Randy Young, Christensen and the MTA have undergone many changes since last year’s conference. From the vantage point of an outsider, this was a smooth transition…
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The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind
It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…