Comments on: Why Google Needs Davis http://www.davisvoice.com/2010/03/why-google-needs-davis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-google-needs-davis engaging our community in a vital and fair forum Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kemble Pope http://www.davisvoice.com/2010/03/why-google-needs-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Kemble Pope Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:25:20 +0000 http://www.davisvoice.com/?p=2494#comment-278 Hi Lawson! Great to hear from you... and great comment. We'd love to have your voice featured on the site regularly, send me an email: kemblekpope [at] gmail dot com. Hi Lawson! Great to hear from you… and great comment. We’d love to have your voice featured on the site regularly, send me an email: kemblekpope [at] gmail dot com.

]]> By: lawson http://www.davisvoice.com/2010/03/why-google-needs-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-277 lawson Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:05:01 +0000 http://www.davisvoice.com/?p=2494#comment-277 Google's Ultra hi-speed fiber data transfer is just the technology my publication's on-line distribution needs to take it to the next level. My newly planned web site is so ... "Busy," so interactive, so packed full of features it is not useful as a tool because of the turtle speed loading delays... and the user based applications requiring hare-like speeds. Davis web-surfers lose patience very quickly, and concerns that require keeping a browser users attention (all of them!) by providing the user with ultra high interest, need super high speeds to compete. Who knows what innovations this Google technology will birth in Our Little City of Davis? For example: I envision on line submissions and open editing of articles and feeds to a newsletter/journal, one ultra-rich in graphics and ultra-rich in sound. We will be producing a 16-24 page newsletter/journal customized to every city/county in the state that meets my criteria; hard copies will be distributed on the streets of communities with and by manageable populations of sheltered and un-sheltered poor. (People feel better about themselves if when asking for 'spare change' they can give something back. I will produce that "something" for them. It is my design to coordinate this massive statewide collaboration from my laptop, provide a conduit between the haves and have-nots in a community and place donations in the hands of those that need them, from the hands of those that care, in exchange for the paper. I call it The Spare Changer (thesparechanger.org), and speed is all that is holding me up; anyone from anywhere may contribute content of any kind subject to the theme of any given month. It would not be long before cities like Davis and others would see the value of such advocacy. Not only would my project not cost a county a dime, it would make dwindling budgets stretch further because a community would be helping its own directly. The street edition will provide a kind of "day labor" for those who cannot work, (my primary goal) but it is involvement and collaboration in this and other philanthropic projects out of which presently available technology has left me locked. The key is speed, and for this project something like Comcast cable, even at its highest rate just doesn't cut it. It just doesn’t. These reasons seem selfish and self-serving perhaps; they are nevertheless one huge application of Google's state of the art Ultra-Speed fiber data transfer technology that will have immediate impact here. We are innovators in Davis. We are a community small enough (67,000) for everyone--Artists, teachers, businesspersons, researchers, students and the marginally served who are fast coming to realize the internet is their way out--to get involved in pioneering the dizzying possibilities of this new technology and yet large enough to expect, in this University town, even more projects with true impact on the lives of our future and the future of the world. Google Ultra High Speed: Mine is but one vision. Let Davis test it out? My name is Lawson I live and work in Davis, Ca. Google’s Ultra hi-speed fiber data transfer is just the technology my publication’s on-line distribution needs to take it to the next level. My newly planned web site is so … “Busy,” so interactive, so packed full of features it is not useful as a tool because of the turtle speed loading delays… and the user based applications requiring hare-like speeds. Davis web-surfers lose patience very quickly, and concerns that require keeping a browser users attention (all of them!) by providing the user with ultra high interest, need super high speeds to compete. Who knows what innovations this Google technology will birth in Our Little City of Davis?
For example:
I envision on line submissions and open editing of articles and feeds to a newsletter/journal, one ultra-rich in graphics and ultra-rich in sound. We will be producing a 16-24 page newsletter/journal customized to every city/county in the state that meets my criteria; hard copies will be distributed on the streets of communities with and by manageable populations of sheltered and un-sheltered poor. (People feel better about themselves if when asking for ‘spare change’ they can give something back. I will produce that “something” for them. It is my design to coordinate this massive statewide collaboration from my laptop, provide a conduit between the haves and have-nots in a community and place donations in the hands of those that need them, from the hands of those that care, in exchange for the paper. I call it The Spare Changer (thesparechanger.org), and speed is all that is holding me up; anyone from anywhere may contribute content of any kind subject to the theme of any given month. It would not be long before cities like Davis and others would see the value of such advocacy. Not only would my project not cost a county a dime, it would make dwindling budgets stretch further because a community would be helping its own directly. The street edition will provide a kind of “day labor” for those who cannot work, (my primary goal) but it is involvement and collaboration in this and other philanthropic projects out of which presently available technology has left me locked.
The key is speed, and for this project something like Comcast cable, even at its highest rate just doesn’t cut it. It just doesn’t.
These reasons seem selfish and self-serving perhaps; they are nevertheless one huge application of Google’s state of the art Ultra-Speed fiber data transfer technology that will have immediate impact here. We are innovators in Davis. We are a community small enough (67,000) for everyone–Artists, teachers, businesspersons, researchers, students and the marginally served who are fast coming to realize the internet is their way out–to get involved in pioneering the dizzying possibilities of this new technology and yet large enough to expect, in this University town, even more projects with true impact on the lives of our future and the future of the world.

Google Ultra High Speed: Mine is but one vision. Let Davis test it out?
My name is Lawson
I live and work in Davis, Ca.

]]> By: Brian Gegan http://www.davisvoice.com/2010/03/why-google-needs-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Brian Gegan Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:59:46 +0000 http://www.davisvoice.com/?p=2494#comment-253 Great effort to rally around! Competition will be steep but a terrific opportunity to prepare our community to thrive and prosper in a highly interconnected, content - rich world. Great effort to rally around!

Competition will be steep but a terrific opportunity to prepare our community to thrive and prosper in a highly interconnected, content – rich world.

]]> By: Pieter http://www.davisvoice.com/2010/03/why-google-needs-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Pieter Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:41:06 +0000 http://www.davisvoice.com/?p=2494#comment-252 I have an idea. Get a local artist to create the google logo with a bike theme to it. That might get their attention. :) I have an idea.

Get a local artist to create the google logo with a bike theme to it.

That might get their attention. :)

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