[LINK] The lights are on but nobody's at home in the city without a clue

[Richard Chirgwin]

Brendan Scott wrote:
>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sydney-the-city-without-a-clue/2007/06/12/1181414305829.html
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>> This is based on, among other things, the number of universities in
>> each city, the spread of broadband access, the amount of patents
>> applied for, and the number of daily newspapers for every million
>> people.
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> I see, so despite how vibrant it is, if it doesn't have broadband or a lax patent system it gets bad marks?
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> Are they going to mark the US down retrospectively now that their Supreme Court has given a ruling likely to invalidate a large proportion of patents filed there over the past decade?
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And it seems from the text that the broadband access measure is not 
comparing cities, but instead assuming that the national broadband 
assessment from the OECD yields a valid comparison between cities.

...and for heaven's sake, the number of universities in a city? How can 
that yield a valid comparison without also comparing the sustaining 
population?

Arbitrary and meaningless, but a good dose of cultural cringe is always 
good for a headline...

RC
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