{"id":489852,"date":"2010-03-30T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310ffbb7c9970c"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:43:59","slug":"santa-monica-produces-goofy-video-to-woo-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489852","title":{"rendered":"Santa Monica produces goofy video to woo Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cities all over the country have been battling for a shot at Google Fiber<\/a> \u2013 the company’s foray into the broadband Internet market. In an effort to win Google’s attention, Santa Monica has produced a goofy video (above).\n<\/p>\n

Google is rolling out its broadband service \u2013 which it claims will be up to 100 times faster than what people typically have access to \u2013 in a very small group of communities. The company has solicited applications from interested cities and has received a variety of attention-grabbing responses<\/a>. Curbed LA has more<\/a> on Santa Monica’s video:\n<\/p>\n

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And in Santa Monica, where Google has an office, they made this video of what The Atlantic calls "a kind of city-wide musical replete with smiling old ladies, local police officers and plenty of ‘ra ra ra’s.’" It’s catchy, but is it "dogs dressed as The Wizard of Oz characters" catchy?\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>, and find the video here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Some other interesting L.A.-area items around the Web:\n<\/p>\n

L.A. big spenders?<\/strong> LA Weekly is reporting that Los Angeles ranks as No. 42 among cities in U.S. household spending. Here’s an excerpt<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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Why didn’t L.A. rank higher? Two words: Housing costs. While income levels in L.A. and New York are healthy, housing costs kill our disposable income in both big cities.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Census form return slow<\/strong>: LAist is reporting that Los Angeles residents are taking their time sending back those census forms. Here’s an excerpt<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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An interactive map<\/a> updated daily shows that today L.A. County and California are at 33% and 34% respectively, which is on par with the 34% national return level. But city Census organizers remain optimistic, since the forms are not due until April 1st (Census Day).\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Echo Park peddlers<\/strong>: Apparently Venice Beach isn’t the only area having trouble with overly aggressive peddlers. The Eastsider LA reports<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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The Echo Park Lake Sunday Swap Meet has continued to attract peddlers and customers despite complaints from some residents and a city "crack down" on vending on park grounds. The conditions mirror those on the Venice Beach boardwalk, where the recession and a complicated vendor ordinance has also [led] to a spike in the number of sellers, triggering tension with residents and fellow peddlers\u2026\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

— Anthony Pesce\n<\/p>\n

Have some news for Linking L.A.? Contact Times reporter Anthony Pesce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cities all over the country have been battling for a shot at Google Fiber \u2013 the company’s foray into the broadband Internet market. In an effort to win Google’s attention, Santa Monica has produced a goofy video (above). Google is rolling out its broadband service \u2013 which it claims will be up to 100 times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}