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Dayton Diode Open House: Feb. 5

Posted on January 13, 2011 @ 2:43 pm by David Esrati

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Just as Al Gore invented the Internet- or Tony Capizzi brought baseball to Dayton- I’m going to take totally undue credit for this idea: a hackerspace instead of the tax-supported sinkhole called Tech Town. I wrote a post April 12 of 2010 “Tech Town or Tech Shop” and said we should have  “a Front Street Read More

Tech Town or TechShop?

Posted on April 12, 2010 @ 8:36 am by David Esrati

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It started as “tool town” – but got stuck in the muck for so long that we outsourced our whole tool and die industry to China. The next shot was “tech town” a government-sponsored subsidized office complex with better branding. It screwed local real estate owners by offering ridiculously low rents in a market that’s Read More