There's Gold in Dem There Hills!

Man, oh man! I do hope you guys have been paying attention to all the wealth of information being shared on the blogs, twitter and the websphere, in general. If not, here is a round up and I dare say a Follow Friday of epic proportions! ha! :

By now, you've probably seen NTIA's posting of all funded projects, I am sure.


Susan Estrada shared a couple of successful BTOP applications:

http://www.merit.edu/stimulus/
https://www.mcnc.org/btop

And folks have been summarizing their frustrations (I deleted an earlier permeation of mine on account of me reading it after it posting and realizing it was quite harsh - in a blame the victim - sort of way. Anyhoo, I like that folks are coming up with critical solutions and suggestions and not just blowing off steam.)

So, even though I cooled down, you can still catch ColoComLwyer rant as he gave the government quite the earful in his piece on his blog yesterday.

PJ from StimulatingBroadband.com stepped out of his traditional neutral journalism role to dole out some advice for tackling the government's mishandling of the Broadband Stimulus roll out.

It was so moving that it stimulated (get it Stimulating broadband?) Susan Estrada to urge her readers on her blog to join the effort and write your Congressmen/women to help change the broken system.

And I am heartened to see folks cluing us all in and sharing their inside knowledge.


While you're scrambling to refile, some of the folks who've been around us guiding us all through the anxious "waiting game" these past months are trying to help out in the next round, alas Broadband Stimulus Craig Settles Successful.com is offering assistance. As is WirelessScott whose company AspenWireless helped some of his clients get funded. Recall, he was one of the first persons boasting keeping us abreast as to what his winning client was going through as it was going through the award grant process. Not sure who's behind this company, but Keenwire too is offering to review applications for a flat rate. whew! I wonder how "flat" is flat?

JamesMardis shared his tweets from watching the latest oversight hearing for those of us too busy to tune in at that moment, but could easily monitor tweets from the middle of a meeting. Thanks James.

RahulG a reporter for BroadbandCensus.com is gathering questions to take to the FCC for the next BroadbandCensus.com breakfast and I assume to actually take to the FCC for an answer. I left mine. You should too.

WilkinsonBarkerKnauer tweeted the pdf to the Federal Register notice publication of the NOFA II and has been keeping us up to date on all the scheduled hearings and workshops.

Apart from moderating a very useful Broadband Stimulus LinkedIn group, JenniferHoltz has been sharing lots of good info via her Twitter page.

As has been the always on top of things BroadbandAccess guy, Michael Smith who has an eerie knack of knowing information from NTIA and RUS and giving us the heads up as the info is released.

Occamnetworks has been providing its insight along the way as well on its BBStim blog and recently tweeted live and direct from its BBSTim webinar.

The Benton Foundation has been an excellent source of Communications news from around the nation.

As usual, Geoff Daily is never shy about sharing his predictions and suggestions on the BBStim issue and other network policy issues on his very poignant App-Rising blog

OneCommunity chronicles and reports the Broadband Headlines of the day.

and by All means follow GrantGros, the reporter who I had my first Internet "beef" would. I feel like I have some street "cred" now. He tweets links to stories on communications and broadband each week that he writes for ComputerWorld, IDG News Service and PC World.

And while you're at it, you might as well check out the adoption efforts of the BroadbandForAmerica coalition of industry companies and groups. The Broadband4Us twitter stream usually has good nuggets of info as well.

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edited to add:

Check out the Wireless Cowboys blog at http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/ which is full of good wireless ISP stories about delivering broadband in rural areas. The series on Medicine Bow, Wyoming is an appropriate one for anyone wanting to find out about delivering broadband to really rural areas.

Thanks matt!

Who did I miss?