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		<title><![CDATA[When (and why) social media fails...]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When and why social media fails...Technology exists, organisation, focus and will power requiredMuch of the technology for facilities to empower "local journalism" already exists, what is needed are people who are ogranised enough to collect the technology together and present them under a unified front. Taking these excellent points in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hot trends in state and local contracting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2150]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Top IT projects among state and local governments in the coming year, according to WashingtonTechnology:Medicaid:     There is a "backlog of states that need new Medicaid systems or are hiring a company to run their systems.  But Rishi Sood, Gartner research vice president, said the need...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:44:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Revealed: Muni WiFi's enemy #1 is SBC-AT&T's #1 campaign contribution recipient]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=913]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In her article entitled Senators can't agree on municipal broadband rules, my colleague Anne Broache "broaches" the subject of municipal broadband hearings in the U.S. Senate.She correctly describes the resistance of big broadband service providers to the idea, and the sentiment expressed by Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada) for their position."I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:18:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Congress turns up the pressure on city wireless]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=1621]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The latest attack on municipal broadband networks comes in the form of the Broadband Investment and Community Choice Act, a bill recently introduced in the Senate, which, according to an article on O'Reilly Network, would seriously limit local governments' ability to create and deploy public networks. Richard Koman writes:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:00:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Harold Feld has read the Ensign bill and he doesn't like what he sees]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=1595]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's Harold Feld's take on Sen. Ensign's Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act. While there are a few positives, the list of negatives is very long. They all boil down to this: "What the act generally does is strip the states and local governments of any regulatory power over telecom...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:54:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rewrite of Telecom Act introduced, addresses muni Wi-Fi]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=1594]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Esme Vos of MuniWireless.com has perspective on the Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005, essentially a rewrite of the current law, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, introduced on July 27 by Sen. John Ensigh (R-Nevada). The bill directly deals with local governments' ability to deploy municipal wireless. Here...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:04:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[City's fiber project goes to a vote]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-1035-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=11899&messageID=236884&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[City's fiber project goes to a votelocal rightsif the citizens of a community want to take the risk of creating a network, then why shouldn't they be given the opportunity. The federal government needs to "step away from the car". As long as access is not limited by local governments...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quest for 'Utopia' hits a roadblock]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quest for 'Utopia' hits a roadblockmake senseSo now we find firther proof our government is actively engaged in negating technological advancement in favour of established and inefficient, legacy communication.  Perhaps this fact stems from the inability to monitor effectively the communications that would take place in the advanced systems....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2004 05:01:00 -0700</pubDate>
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