First Community Broadband Bits Podcast Sibley County Fiber to the Farm

Published: June 19, 2012, 3:30 p.m.

b"In our excitement to produce this podcast, we forgot to credit Fit and the Conniptions for the intro/outro music. Much thanks for releasing their music under a creative commons license that allows us to use it for this purpose. If you like their sound, buy an album!\\n\\nWe have decided to start a podcast- a recurring audio program that you can listen to on your smartphone, iPod, computer, this web page, etc. We are calling it Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bit[/no-glossary]s and our plan is to offer short (10-15 minute) interviews with people doing interesting things to encourage community broadband networks.\\n\\nAs this is our first attempt at such a show, we hope you will send feedback and suggestions. Eventually, we will get on a schedule, likely releasing every other week for the first few months.\\n\\nTo subscribe with iTunes, click here. You can download this Mp3 file directly from here.\\n\\nRead the transcript of this episode here.\\n\\nFind more episodes in our podcast index.\\n\\nIf you simply want the audio feed for the show, it is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BroadbandBits\\n\\nFor our first show, we interviewed Linda Kramer with the Marketing Committee of the Sibley-Renville Fiber Project in rural Minnesota's Sibley County. In this ten minute interview, we discuss the need and demand for broadband in rural areas, as well as how the marketing committee has educated residents and demonstrated support for a County-owned fiber network."