“… for every $5 billion invested in broadband infrastructure to create [high-speed internet] networks, 97,500 new jobs in the telecommunications, computer and IT sectors will be created.”
Turns out the U.S. now “ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed and is not making significant progress in building a faster network.” I’m hopeful that we will turn this around soon.
“As it turns out, when we look at life-cycle analysis, a “cradle-to-grave perspective” on food products, food miles are “a relatively small slice of the greenhouse-gas pie,” says DeWeerdt. In fact, according to a comprehensive analysis last year by Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews of Carnegie Mellon University, final delivery from the producer or processor to the retailer accounts for only 4% of the U.S. food system’s greenhouse-gas emissions!”
Saul Hansell at the NYTimes.com Bits Blog: The Broadband Gap: Why is Theirs Faster?
I don’t know about manners, but it’s easy to find examples that American’s broadband is second-rate:
In Japan, broadband service running at 150 megabits per second (Mbps) costs $60 a month. The fastest service available now in the United States is 50 Mbps at a price of $90 to $150 a month.
In London, $9 a month buys 8 Mbps service.
At London’s rate, I should be paying less that $2/month for my pawltry 1.5 Mbps. If only. I pay a full $37 each and every month.
The United Kingdom’s Met Office put together this graphic on climate change. I think it is one of the most informative, succinct graphics I’ve seen in a long time. Very nice.
[via Climate Progress]
Seth Godin writes about Personal Branding in the age of Google:
Everything you do now ends up in your permanent record. The best plan is to overload Google with a long tail of good stuff and to always act as if you’re on Candid Camera, because you are.
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