Don P. Jason III
Dj320306@ohio.edu
This post deals less with the content of my paper and more with my progress on the assignment. So far I am 80% done with my paper and I have shot three interviews for my video.
Tonight I am shooting my three stand-ups for the video, finding background music for the video and shooting the informational slides with my voice behind them. Tomorrow I will edit the pieces all together.
I feel confident about my project. And look forward to sharing it with the class at the conference.
This week I did do an over the phone interview. Ira Dye, a recent graduate of Ohio University helped bring wireless broadband internet to rural Meigs County. He first gathered a group of resident together that wanted broadband and he had them sign a petition, which he took to a local wireless provider of this type of internet. Dye spent seven months researching the technology behind broadband and the business model and profitability for a company who would bring wireless internet to Meigs County. The company determined that it would nearly $300,000 cheaper to put up a wireless tower; Infrastructure that could later be used as the building block for future technology, than to run cable through wired fiber optic or telephone lines. Also physical limitations on fiber optic lines prevented the company from laying these type lines. Fiber optic Lines can only stretch 18,000 feet from a central office, which are generally located in urban centers. The work of Dye got Meigs county broadband, which raised property values of the 500 plus homes in the area. This is an example of a technology success story for Southeastern Ohio.
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Thats a great story. Your topic is interesting because I feel like so many people(including myself) take technology for granted. And in an age when communication trends are so heavily weighted on the use of technology, its a highly important topic to address. I look forward to hearing more about it Friday.
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