Posts Tagged with ‘chicago’

Municipal WiFi Projects In US Placed On Back Burner

Paul Glazowski

For years, companies and individuals involved with the development of both the business and residential infrastructures enabling the deployment of widespread Internet access in the US have been admitting that they haven’t quite constructed the most state-of-the-art network(s) in the world. Average speeds of downstream and upstream transfers are all but snail-like in comparison to those recorded in Japan, South Korea, and several countries residing within the European continent.
The most pressing issue facing the US in terms of technological advancement [...]

YearlyKos 2007: Little More Than A Show

Paul Glazowski

Familiar with DailyKos? Of course you are. You might like the blog; you might not. But you definitely know the name.
Well, this past Saturday the 2007 edition of the YearlyKos Convention, an annual gathering of bloggers, politicians, and various other influentials brought together under one roof by Markos Moulitsas, a civil puppeteer of sorts, hit Chicago with a bang. The convention was especially poignant due to the presidential debate which occurred among Democratic candidates at the event under the critical [...]