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“Silicon Prairie” film available today; Dwolla to host screening at 6 p.m.
“Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy,” a short documentary that stresses the importance of the Open Internet by telling the stories of startups in the middle of America, is now available on the film’s website. “Pay what you want, from $0 up,” the site states, encouraging donations to the film that began as crowd-funded project.…
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“Silicon Prairie” documentary to premier at CES (Video)
A short documentary shot in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas just three months ago debuts today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. “Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy,” a 22-minute film that follows reddit’s Internet 2012 Bus Tour last October, will show at 9:30 a.m. local time at the Las Vegas Convention…
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Watch the Internet 2012 Bus Tour entrepreneurship panel in KC (Video)
reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has good news about his campaign on behalf of the internet. “It’s going to be a landslide,” Ohanian said. ‘I think things are going really well for the internet right now.” He delivered the good news during a gathering Oct. 8 at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo. Ohanian…
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Iowans advocate for change at inaugural Internet Uncaucus (Video)
A group of citizens braved chilly October weather on Saturday to meet on the Locust Street bridge in downtown Des Moines for the Iowa Internet Uncaucus, a part of the nine-city Internet 2012 Bus Tour created by reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and general manager Erik Martin. Participants viewed 13 soapbox presentations by members of the…
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Raikes School, Hudl welcome Bus Tour to talk power of Open Internet
Heads turned and necks craned Friday afternoon as the blue and red bus and souped-up hot rod rumbled through the streets of Lincoln and onto the campus of the University of Nebraska. In a purely superficial sense, the Internet 2012 Bus Tour had achieved one of its primary objectives — getting people to take notice…