This is a guest post, authored by Jay April. Jay is a strong supporter of local authority and community media. He is a documentary filmmaker,...
Larry Lessig addressed the 2012 WiscNet Conference in Madison, talking about the importance of achieving the goals of the Founders of the United States in...
Writing for the American Express Open Forum, author Jack Shultz helped to compile a list of what he considers the best small towns for business...
As we celebrate our Independence Day, we are supporting the Declaration of Internet Freedom, a new campaign that was launched this morning. Preamble: We believe...
We have followed Seattle’s on-again, off-again consideration of a community broadband network for years and have occasionally noted the successful cable network in nearby Tacoma....
Monticello faced a number of key decision moments throughout the history of its FiberNet. Given the recent changes in management and decision not to make...
In our second podcast, we have interviewed Monica Webb with the Wired West Initiative in rural western Massachusetts. Like our first podcast, this should be...
Far too many people seem to think that when they go to Speedtest.net to test their connection, they get a number that has any bearing...
Martin County, Florida, is saving millions of dollars because it built a county-owned fiber optic network rather than continuing to lease connections from Comcast. ILSR’s...
Yesterday, we released our first podcast – a short discussion with Linda Kramer of the Sibley-Renville Fiber project in rural Minnesota. When I happened across...
In our excitement to produce this podcast, we forgot to credit Fit and the Conniptions for the intro/outro music. Much thanks for releasing their music...
For those waking up from a two week nap, the publicly owned FiberNet Monticello recently saw the private provider managing it step down, the City...
Over the weekend, while listening to an old episode of Star Talk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was reminded of just how incredible the...
Monticello has been all over the muni broadband news lately, in the wake of a letter it sent to bondholders [pdf] alerting them that the...
Susan Crawford was one of the featured presenters at Freedom to Connect 2012 and her presentation was noted by Tech Dirt: To support her thesis,...