FACTOID
 Two cities were greatly advantaged by the addition of internet literacy variables this year. Austin, TX was 16th overall but 3rd on internet literacy while San Jose, CA was 51st overall but 8th on internet literacy.  Respectively, they moved up from 22nd and 62nd the previous year when internet literacy was not a factor.

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INTERNET

      Top 10
      Internet resources
       Internet resources were indexed as four variables. These numbers were then divided
      by the city population in order to calculate ratios of internet resources available to the
      population.  

  1. Number of library Internet connection per 10,000 library service population

  2. Number of commercial and public wireless Internet access points per capita

  3. Number of Internet book orders per capita

  4. Percentage of adult population that has read newspaper on Internet

     

Rank

 Overall Ranking
1  Seattle, WA 1
2  Boston, MA 7
3  Austin, TX 16
4  San Francisco, CA 5
5.5  Atlanta, GA 4
5.5  Oakland, CA 30
7  Denver, CO 6
8  San Jose, CA 51
9  Columbus, OH 12
10  Minneapolis, MN 2