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Podcast 1727: TV White Spaces Connecting Rural Michigan: Hope or Hoax?

Podcast 1727: TV White Spaces Connecting Rural Michigan: Hope or Hoax?

July 15, 2017 | Comments Off on Podcast 1727: TV White Spaces Connecting Rural Michigan: Hope or Hoax?

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Microsoft’s President, Brad Smith, announced on July 11 that the digital giant is going to throw its weight behind TV White Space technology to connect millions of our fellow citizens living in rural America.  The initial stages of the program will hook up some 2.3 million people in 12 states (including Michigan!) by 2025.

In today’s show we will breakdown Microsoft’s plan and discuss the pros and cons of using TV White Space technology as one of the ways to cost effectively connect this huge portion of population.  Is this the new Great White (Space) Hope or Hoax?

Click Here to Listen to Microsoft Announcement

 

Joining us to discuss the topic are two people with long term investments in reaching America’s underserved populations with broadband technology:

Jameson Zimmer is …


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1606 18th Anniversary Special

1606 18th Anniversary Special

February 12, 2016 | Comments Off on 1606 18th Anniversary Special

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Show Notes:

Hour 1

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”10824″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Yan NessYan Ness is the CEO of Online Technologies, a company with long connection to Gary Baker and the Internet Advisor.  Once upon a time, Online Tech was the ISP that Gary Baker ran and was the way that he and Foster Braun met.  Foster called to get help with his connection to the then fledgling Internet and Gary was happy to pitch in. The rest, as they say, is history.

Click Here to Listen to Yan Ness[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Kay and RonRon and Kay Wilmers of Lapeer, MI are the founders of The Disabled Traveler, a website dedicated to helping people with disabilities and/or age related challenges enjoy traveling. Ron’s experience began in 1977 when he was confined to a wheelchair but never let it keep him and his family from enjoying camping.

The Disabled Traveler is Ron and Kay’s personal crusade to help people facing disabilities and/or age related challenges to enjoy America’s …


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Podcast 1505 Jan.31, 2015: Happy 17th Anniversary, Heminwrite & Pasty.net

Podcast 1505 Jan.31, 2015: Happy 17th Anniversary, Heminwrite & Pasty.net

January 30, 2015 | Comments Off on Podcast 1505 Jan.31, 2015: Happy 17th Anniversary, Heminwrite & Pasty.net

 

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Show Notes

Hour 1

Hemingwrite

Hemingwrite KickStarter Page

Hemingwrite: Throwback or Great Leap Forward

patrick_paul_smPatrick Paul is part of the local team of developers who came up with this ingenious device. Hemingwrite a distraction free writing tool that is part throwback to the portable typewriters that many of us remember fondly (or not) from late night paper writing sessions in college.  It is also a wonderful digital device that is deliberately NOT connected to the Internet.  Find out why!

 

rick broidaRick Broida, our favorite writer, columnist, commentator, cheapskate (and zombie wrangler) joins us for our discussion about Hemingwrite.  Is it a great leap forward for someone who is constantly on deadline for his articles?  Listen and see.

 

Click Here to Listen to Hemingwrite 

Dog Sled

Charlie HopperCharlie Hopper, founder and CEO of Pasty.net and Pasty.com in the great frozen north of Michigan’s Upper Penninsula joins us for a double celebration.  His website went live just about the same time as the Internet Advisors hit the Internet.  Pasty.net is applying hi tech solutions to providing broadband access to customers in the heart of our rugged Upper Penninsula where there are often more racoons than customers.  PS  He also …


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