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Portland has hired ‘MetroFI’ to build out a city wide wireless network

Kellan — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:51:00 +0000

Odd that Portland of all places would go this route given the success of Personal Telco community wireless.

http://gigaom.com/2006/04/12/portland-goes-metrofi/

“hey conference organizers, wireless connectivity is part of your marketing budget.”

Kellan — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:03:00 +0000

truer words

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/03/conference-wifi.html

Mesh, Nodes, and Ants

Kellan — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:48:49 +0000

I’m still patiently waiting for my deployable mesh networks, please!

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003267.html

“It won’t be too long before people begin sneaking into the bathroom their with their laptop just to check their email.”

Kellan — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:41:12 +0000

Laptop Discrimination at Another Seattle Coffeehouse

http://www.idealog.us/2005/07/laptop_discrimi.html

Tonx continues to provide the only coverage worth reading of Victrola’s wifi free weekends.

Kellan — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 02:25:09 +0000

I got called for the PI article, but apparently wasn’t sensational enough to use.

http://tonx.org/index.php/archives/would-you-like-some-coffee-with-that-wifi/

Another Take on Wireless Weekends

Kellan — Mon, 30 May 2005 18:36:00 +0000

Earlier I linked to Tonx‘s report on success of Victrola’s wifi free weekends. Dru points to an interesting alternative

go wired on weekends. It would be sort of retro, you know, in keeping with Victrola’s theme. Put an eight port hub in the middle of the coffee table in the back, and make all of those antisocial net junkies (like me) sit next to each other on the couch…

During my sparse visits to UZ I noticed that an unofficial “laptop table” existed, with the Monster kids as its core. It had the interesting effect of setting up a second social scene. No one who has brought their laptop to a coffee shop to work will be a quality participant in the discursive, casual cafe scene, but that doesn’t mean one can’t create another equally vibrant scene built around our shared work. (Useful in particular as most of us are working in fundamentally alienating profession anyway)

coffee, wi-fi and the decline of western civilization.

Kellan — Sat, 28 May 2005 01:24:30 +0000

Tonx on Victrola decision to cut off the wifi on weekends. Seems like common sense but its rocking /. and BB’s world.

http://tonx.org/index.php/archives/coffee-wi-fi-and-the-decline-of-western-civilization/

PlaceSite – Reinventing Wi-Fi Community

Kellan — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:34:13 +0000

Location specific socail networks, from CheeseBikini who has been thinking about this stuff for a long time

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~savage/ps/

PlaceSite – location specific social network website

Kellan — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:26:04 +0000

Intel has already done extensive work on this, and overwhelmingly women don’t participate in a social service tied to their location.

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~savage/ps/

boston.wifimug.org

Kellan — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:27:01 +0000

A collaborative guide to wireless coffee shops in Boston

http://boston.wifimug.org/

Vancouver WifiMug

Kellan — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:29:14 +0000

Just getting started, but already lots of great listings.

http://vancouver.wifimug.org/

“We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless”

Kellan — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:58:08 +0000

I’m a big fan of wireless, but having spent some time in SF, I might start with housing, food or health care. Just a thought.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6576933§ion=news.nyud.net:8090

Bay Area free wireless hotspots…on your iPod!

Kellan — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 03:33:14 +0000

If anyone wants to supply the iPod, I’ll get this working for WifiMug.org

http://small-fish.com/ryan/2004/07/whats-wipod.htm

WifiMug: Map Seattle And Environs Wireless Cafes

Kellan — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:02:24 +0000

No labels on this one, made it impossible to read.

http://seattle.wifimug.org/index.cgi?MapSeattleAndEnvironsWirelessCafes

Burrow out of captive portals by tunneling ssh over DNS

Kellan — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:37:00 +0000

Sounds like I have a date with Starbucks to try this.

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/21/tunneling_ssh_over_d.html

WifiMug: Seattle Public Library Central Branch

Kellan — Tue, 25 May 2004 21:11:56 +0000

Coffee, wireless, and books! By far the largest ‘cafe’ on the site.

http://seattle.wifimug.org/index.cgi?SeattlePublicLibraryCentralBranch

Community Wireless

Kellan — Fri, 23 May 2003 20:17:00 +0000

FreeNetworks Conference 2003, Las Vegas, June 7-8th: Grungy, community wireless, on the cheap.

Not to be confused with…

Wireless Internet Opportunities for Developing Nations, UN Headquarters, New York, June 26th: an industry get together to make sure wireless doesn’t get loose anywhere else the way its threatening to in this country.

New Problems, New Solutions

Kellan — Fri, 09 May 2003 16:28:00 +0000

If we want our network of ad-hoc access points to ever grow into something more then a quick place to check ones email, then we need a way to communicate between maintainer and user, explain the purpose of the AP, and what services are offered. The current way to do this is with NoCat or something like it, capture the users web traffic the first time they connect, and re-direct to an appropiate landing page. This is a “good enough” solution to me, but it makes Josh (who needs a blog) grumpy, as he is inclined to see slippery slopes in the darndest places.

A Lot Less Slippery?

Rob “Community Wireless” Flickenger has a better solution, use Rendezvous Zeroconf mDNS, and goes on to show how he setup service advertising on his Linux AP.

SF Wireless Cafes

Kellan — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:51:00 +0000

A list of free wireless cafes in San Francisco to supplement the excellent (last of the independents) Surf N Sip. I would settle for just one independent cafe in Boston, that got wireless, free or not.

Revisitng Davis Sq. Wireless

Kellan — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:55:04 +0000

Right now, its a little irrelevant, as the rambling house/barn I’m staying at in New Hampshire is wirelessly enabled, but someday I’ll be returning to Boston, and the Davis Sq. Community Wireless will again be a neccessity.

The udpate is while the Greens/IMC will no longer be in their space, people have suggested that Resist Foundation might be interested. This has the added advantage of being much closer to square, and being on the 2nd floor., and at 259 Elm St., I have to assume its right about Diesel at 257 Elm.