Comments on: Decline of Local Media and the Need for Alternatives http://manchestermule.com/article/decline-of-local-media-and-the-need-for-alternatives News with a Kick Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Robertson http://manchestermule.com/article/decline-of-local-media-and-the-need-for-alternatives/comment-page-1#comment-1222 John Robertson Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:27:36 +0000 http://themule.info/?p=438#comment-1222 There is a solution, but it is up to the development agencies. If they could make all city areas and as much as possible of the country a free Wi Fi hotspot, and if they could make sure computers were recycled to anyone who wanted them instead of being thrown away, and if they could promote open source software, then the person you meet in the street could be online too. Business & employment would benefit, I think, including fringe businesses like news reporting. I did try to suggest this on the obscure online "economic strategy consultation" to my local development agency in London. It took ages to read the thing find out how to log-on and comment. I did it off the cuff right up against the deadline. It looked a bit drunker than I really was at the time. All the other comments were from chief executives with finely-formatted paragraphs and factual footnotes. Maybe someone else can do better next time? There is a solution, but it is up to the development agencies. If they could make all city areas and as much as possible of the country a free Wi Fi hotspot, and if they could make sure computers were recycled to anyone who wanted them instead of being thrown away, and if they could promote open source software, then the person you meet in the street could be online too.

Business & employment would benefit, I think, including fringe businesses like news reporting.

I did try to suggest this on the obscure online “economic strategy consultation” to my local development agency in London. It took ages to read the thing find out how to log-on and comment. I did it off the cuff right up against the deadline. It looked a bit drunker than I really was at the time. All the other comments were from chief executives with finely-formatted paragraphs and factual footnotes.

Maybe someone else can do better next time?

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