Rose Cantine

I posted two articles on Rosecantine.com about the newspaper business which has seen its product — the news — become commoditized. There’s a debate going on in the industry about whether they should put content behind a pay wall or make it all free. The lesson is that if you have something special your competitors [...]

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This is the story I like to tell often because it is so unbelievable. Back in May 2005, when Muniwireless.com had already established itself as the place to go to for all things muni Wi-Fi, I was wondering, how do I take it to the next stage? Many people were asking me to hold conferences [...]

By May 2005, I had managed to build an online portal dedicated to a very specific topic: municipal wireless broadband networks. Without any investment other than my time and web hosting costs, the site became the authority on the subject of citywide Wi-Fi. Cities and counties that were thinking of deploying these networks came to [...]

When I started charging vendors for advertising on Muniwireless, which by the middle of 2005 had become the online portal for news about municipal wireless broadband projects, I began running into potential advertisers who wanted me to say nice things about them in my blog posts. This is common in the publishing industry, I found [...]

By May 2004, I was writing twice as many articles as in January 2004 and better yet, people were sending news reports directly to me. Muniwireless.com was generating a lot of interest not just among city and county officials, but also among equipment vendors.
By the time I released my first anniversary report, I realized there [...]

During the first year of its existence, Muniwireless.com made no money. Because there were few cities setting up Wi-Fi hotzones and hardly any were deploying municipal Wi-Fi networks, posting was light. I would write three to four articles a week, but as the year went by, the number started to rise because more cities were [...]