Baltimore mayor, Google Czar file fiber application
Shortly after 3 p.m. today, Baltimore mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake hit the submit button on the city's online application for Google Fiber for Communities pilot project.
In the photo to the left is the city's volunteer "Google Czar", Tom Loveland, and Dave Troy, another volunteer who helped put the city application together. (Troy is sitting at the mayor's desk and computer, shortly after she submitted the application.)
Now, it's wait and see time.
Google said it'll pick a lucky winner for the ultra-high-speed broadband project by the end of the year.
As of 1 p.m. today, Google said more than 600 communities had submitted the request for information. I expect that number to grow significantly higher by the time the application deadline rolls around by 7 p.m. tonight.
Watch the video of the button-pushing!
Comments
is anyone else getting sick of people being called Czars? Or Tsars even?
Last I checked, Czarist Russia was a rather unpleasant place to live unless you were the Czar.
Personally, it seems bad for a reprsentative republic such as ours, to give someone a title, real or imagined that conjures autocracy.
Posted by: bryanintowson | March 26, 2010 4:45 PM
Great job, Baltimore.
Totally disagree with the Mayor's answer on stunts and Baltimore's lack thereof.
Time will tell. I hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Don | March 26, 2010 5:02 PM
The only mention of Baltimore's work from Google - jammed among hundreds of grassroots Facebook pages. Check it out:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-steps-for-our-experimental-fiber.html
Posted by: Don | March 26, 2010 5:47 PM
bryanintowson: Ну сказал Брайан в Towson
Posted by: Dana LaRocca | March 26, 2010 8:35 PM
Great job Dave and Tom! I am sure this was a lot of work so thank you for working so hard on our behalf. The city of Baltimore owes you a cold one, and if you win, all the residents will owe you one too!
Posted by: dirdim | March 28, 2010 10:20 AM