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Compare and contrast:
Local TV news all this week, and the Seattle Times, reports that the city of Seattle has opened up two large wifi spots: one on University Ave, the other in Columbia City (which, great, is just in time for next month’s Beatwalk), and is planning four more wifi spots in parks next month. If ever you were planning to have an open air office, now would be the time to put that plan into action by scouting out good park locations and marking your territory.
Meanwhile over in Bellevue, I’ll continue my doom-and-gloom report of closures by citing a different Seattle Times article about the Bellevue Borders store closing. I wish I could muster up some feeling about this, but I’ve been in that store only once since it opened. The marketing VP for The Square had this to say:
“It’s frankly been really hard to put our finger on,” Leavitt said of the store’s performance. “We’re disappointed for losing that category.”
Free wifi would have been a good start, don’t-cha-think? And not making me run a ratmaze to get to the bookstore would have been nice too. Oh, and have I mentioned? Don’t make me go up three floors just to get to the sci fi section — that’s just mean.
nice find. it will be really interesting to see how this works — especially in the U-district, which seemed really resistant to adopt the model of free wireless paid for by each cafe or restaurant.
thanks josh. I was idly playing around with an idea earlier today — live posting, like heading over to beatwalk, and posting little reviews or photos as I move from one venue to another. It could be a “spot the metblogger” game too, so I guess I could carry around a bag of prizes to award to people who come up to me and say the magic phrase. I don’t know what the magic phrase is. How about “I read seattle.metblogs, and I’m your biggest fan”? What sort of inducement would I need to carry to make people say that, I wonder?