FORAY INTO NEWSPRINT: MISSING LINKS

I've got a guest column in today's Free Times (Let ’em Eat Dial-Up: Too many Clevelanders lack even basic Internet access).

If you're here because you saw the URL at the bottom of the column, welcome.

The main thing I learned from writing this piece was that, whatever you think of print journalism, writing factual exposition without hyperlinks has become a pain in the butt.

Here are a few of the column's "missing links"...

Top 7 Intelligent Communities
Intel Worldwide Digital Community
One Cleveland
Digital Vision
Community wireless broadband initiatives:
aaaPhiladelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, others
Ubuntu Linux

CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Also lost in the editing (about which I have no complaints... when you give an editor a thousand words for an 800-word space, something has to go) were more details about the survey of Cleveland residents' Internet access, including this chart:

More about the survey is here. If you're really into this, the whole thing can be found here, embedded in testimony I filed in a Public Utilities Commission case last July.