January 31, 2004

from David Fletcher's site: TechNet This just in from Community Broadband Networks: In a letter to mayors and city councils of the 18 UTOPIA cities, a group, TechNet, representing the leadership of much of America's high tech industry strongly advocated the cities back the multi-city UTOPIA FTTH (fiber to the home) project:  "We strongly endorse the UTOPIA city fiber project and wish you well in bringing it to a successful launch in 2004" This week, West Valley City became the first member of UTOPIA to vote in support of the bond to fund the initial rollout. 1:28:30 PM     PatrickWeb-Joins Opera Board of Directors PatrickWeb Blog John Patrick who brought the Internet to IBM has joined Opera's Board of Directors. He also joined the Board of Directors of Knovel Corporation. You can get the story straight from Patrick's blog. John shares his thoughts on the future of blogging in an interview with CIO magazine. "NetAttitude" is John's book on what he thinks is the future of the Internet. Jonn summarizes this book in a Network World Fusion article. Over the past year of conference speaking, Mr. Patrick found one of the most intersting speakers he met was Brewster Kahle who founded Alexa and the Internet Archive. In November Kahle made news with the Wayback Machine which creates the ability for people to browse through 30 billion web pages, which includes web pages from 1996 to now.   11:56:39 AM

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