It’s been a slow blogging day here at 802 because I spent the afternoon in 518. The producers of a Mountain Lake PBS show called “Business Affairs” invited me to take part in a roundtable discussion today about broadband internet. I’m told it’s on tonight at 8. Not sure when else, or if they’ll even replay it.

I was on with three very cordial men, all older than me — the host, Bill Owens, a reporter from Montreal, and a reporter from Plattsburgh. I had fun talking with them, and was interested in the report they prepared to air before our chat. The Plattsburgh area is apparently considering setting up a network like Burlington Telecom’s. In the pre-roundtable report, they interviewed Tim Nulty, who talked about what he’s doing here. He actually said a lot of the same things to them that he did to me, in the article I wrote last May.

I’m not sure how informative the resulting program will be — I suspect that my fellow conversation partners are not exactly early adopters — but like I said, it was fun. And I hadn’t heard about the Plattsburgh project before. I’ll have to look into it more carefully.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...