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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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Watch the Internet Bus Tour visit the Kauffman Foundation live at 6:30
After stops in Lincoln, Des Moines and Iowa City the last three nights, the Internet 2012 Bus Tour makes its fourth and final Silicon Prairie stop tonight, visiting the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo. for a panel on entrepreneurship. For those who can’t make it to tonight’s event, the Kauffman Foundation is…
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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…
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Watch the Iowa Internet Uncaucus live tonight until 9
reddit’s Internet 2012 Bus Tour, an effort to promote the Open Internet with a campaign-style road trip through the heart of the country, continues its surge across the Silicon Prairie tonight with a stop in Des Moines for the inaugural Iowa Internet Uncaucus. Tonight’s event, billed as “a caucus just for us” featuring “bipartisan ideas,…
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Internet Bus Tour to hold events in Lincoln, Des Moines, Iowa City & KC
The Internet 2012 Bus Tour this week released details of the five events it will co-host in the Heartland to advocate for the Open Internet, an internet the tour describes as one free of government restrictions, censorship and regulations. Spearheaded by redditt co-founder Alexis Ohanian and general manager Eric Martin, a duo that’s championed the…
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Internet 2012 Bus Tour to make four stops in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri
Reddit last week announced the itinerary for its Internet 2012 Bus Tour, an eight-day, seven-stop, campaign-style bus tour advocating for the Open Internet. From Oct. 5-8, the bus will make four stops in the Silicon Prairie region, partnering with local supporters for events in Lincoln, Des Moines, Iowa City and Kansas City. “The Internet 2012…
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On upcoming tour, reddit co-founder to seek stories of internet’s impact
Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of social news site reddit, is taking a cue from the candidates in the 2012 presidential campaign this fall and embarking on a bus tour that will weave its way through the heart of the country. But Ohanian isn’t likely to deliver stump speeches about most of the issues dominating the…