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"Dear Illinois Broadband Enthusiasts..."

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Mike Doyle

Since 2005 scribe of the local blog, Chicago Carless. I invite you to visit.

wifi icon-thumb-150x139The State of Illinois is crowing about a broadband technology grant that will help few people in northern Illinois who really need affordable choices when it comes to Internet service. Who benefits? That depends on whether you can see Cabrini--or cornfields--out your kitchen window.

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Is OS Choice Important to Bloggers?

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Mike Doyle

Since 2005 scribe of the local blog, Chicago Carless. I invite you to visit.

A recent post to my personal blog announcing my decision to switch from Mac OS X to Windows 7 after 15 years as an Apple user generated more controversy than even I, the Chicago blogosphere's official pain in the CMS, expected. It's not a decision I made lightly, but I didn't expect so many people to take my announcement quite so personally. In an era when most blogging is done via browser-based web interfaces, is the choice of operating system really that big a deal for bloggers? And more importantly, why?

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