Howard Owens

What if a newspaper bought a boatload of $100 computers and gave them away, maybe in the poorest neighborhoods. The outside would be branded and the default, unchangeable home page would be the paper's Web site ... what would that mean for the paper, the community, the culture? And would the ROI be worth it?  And throw in some free wi-fi hotspots, or maybe wi-max, in those same neighborhoods -- what about then?

[tags]newspapers, laptops, computers[/tags]