Personal Telco and PDX Wireless Coverage

January 2002 - Government Technology

• John Marcotte writes "" an interview with Brewster Kahle of SfLan and AdamShand about barriers to CommunityNetwork progress.BR http://www.govtech.net/magazine/sup_story.phtml?magid=1505000000000021&id=3030000000004263&issue=1:2002

December 2001 - MIT Technology Review

• Erika Jonietz writes "Unwiring the Web" a nice write up of community networkings mainly focusing on NycWireless though NigelBallard and PersonalTelco are mentioned. You can read a scanned copy of the article (page [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT1.jpg 1], [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT2.jpg 2] and [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT3.jpg 3]). BR http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/dec01/innovation1.asp

22 October 2001 - The Toronto Star

• Tyler Hamilton writes "Wireless `Robin Hood' espouses free online access". A decent write up of TawNag with a nice mention of PersonalTelco and other WirelessCommunities. It's a shame yet another reporter jumps on the sensasionalistic bandwagon though.BR [http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1003701686251 http://www.torontostar.com/]

October 2001 - Discover Magazine

• "The Future of Wireless", a panel of "wireless visionaries" talk about the future of the Internet and eireless connectivity. The full version isn't available online, just a list of panelists and a some blurbage..BR http://www.discover.com/oct_01/gthere.html?article=featwireless.html

04 September 2001 - Associated Press

• Jim Krane writes "Digital activists want to share the Internet's wealth -- er, bandwidth" the main point of this article seems to be fear mongering in the business world that we're "stealing bandwidth" and the ISP's and Telco's aren't gonna like that.BR http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/37567_wireless04.shtml

02 September 2001 - The Daytona Beach News-Journal

• "Spare some bandwidth? Free wireless Internet movement shares the wealth" is another nice write up about community networks.BR http://www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Sep/2/STECH2.htm

28 August 2001 - Gannett News Service

• Greg Wright writes "Bootleggers bring broadband to some neighborhoods" for the Gannett News Service, which has papers all over the country. Covers DanRichardson and the PlayDay.BR http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/11000064.html

16 August 2001 - Newsbytes

• Dick Kelsey writes "WiFi Spawns Free Net Access", AdamShand gets yet more press time in this article! Way to go!BR http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169108.html

15 August 2001 - Slashdot

• Timothy posts "A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York" which is pointing to the recent Village Voice article. There some fairly supportive and interesting comments.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/15/0150255.shtml

15 August 2001 - The Village Voice

• Peter Meyers writes "High Speed, Freed: Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband to New York". This is mainly about NycWireless, but AdamShand does get mentioned towards the end.BR http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0133/meyers.php

08 August 2001 - Salon

• George Kelly writes "Boomeranged by Ricochet" and talks about Metricom going bust and no longer being able to get his wireless internet fix. PdxWireless is Mentioned as an alternative!BR http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/08/ricochet/index.html

07 August 2001 - The Portland Tribune

• Andy Giegerich writes "From Wire to Wire(less)". We got front page of the business section, a picture and everything! Nice to finally get some local press.BR http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PortlandTribuneArticle

August 2001 - Metropolis Magazine

• Andrew Blum writes "Wireless activists bring the battle over public space to the airwaves. ". A nice article about the grass roots nature of community networking.BR http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html

19 July 2001 - The Seattle Weekly

• GlennFleishman writes "The Revolution May Be Wireless". Glenn came down to Portland for the WirelessSummit and then went back home and wrote about it.BR http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0129/tech-fleishman.shtml

12 June 2001 - Tech TV

• Tim Pozar of BaWug talks about how "Neighborhood Area Networks" are changing (and will change) the way people connect to the Internet.BR http://www.techtv.com/print/story/0,23102,3332231,00.html

15 May 2001 - Wikipedia

• We're list in in wikipedia, another really cool wiki project!BR http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Personal_Telco

26 March 2001 - Geek News

• Xix posts a bit what PersonalTelco is up to.BR http://www.geeknews.net/article.php?sid=855

29 January 2001 - Slashdot

• BrucePotter posted "Where's Your Nearest Wireless Access Point". We got a nice plug as well as SeattleWireless.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/29/148206.shtml

January 2001 - Computer Bits

• SamChurchill wrote "Community LANS" and mentioned PDXWireless.org.BR http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2001/0100/communitylan.html

13 December 2000 - Security Geeks

• BrucePotter writes "As the Wireless World Turns". Our first press!BR http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=2000121306222979

General Community Networking Coverage

03 October 2001 - 80211 Planet

• Ed Sutherland writes "Renegade WLANs: Parasitic or Free-Spirited Anarchistic?". A nice write up covering NycWireless' activity post the WTC attack as well as general good feelings towoards our efforts.BR http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_896641,00.html

02 October 2001 - Austin Statesman

• Cara Anna writes "High-speed Net access, virtually anywhere". A nice write up of two of the newer community networking groups, AustinWireless and OminNet. JimThompson of Musenki also makes an appearance. BR http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/tuesday/news_5.html

27 September 2001 - Silicon Alley Daily

• Dakota Smith writes "Wireless Rescue Mission: Alley Discovers 802.11b". NycWireless takes the lead by deploying community wireless networks to help businesses and communities get back on their feet after the September 11th disaster.BR http://www.siliconalleydaily.com/issues/default.html#Headline9361

26 September 2001 - c|net news.com

• Paul Festa writes "Free wireless Net access for the masses". More great stuff from TimPozar of BaWug.BR http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-7301549.html?tag=prntfr

07 September 2001 - Info World

• Mark Jones writes "Users reject notion of 'parasitic grid'" a refreshing follow up to the "Parasitic Grid story. The story primarily talks with TimPozar and KevinBurton of BaWug.BR http://www2.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/07/010907hnparasitic.xml

28 August 2001 - Net Economie

• Jérôme Bouteiller writes "France Wireless veut créer un réseau 802.11b national libre et gratuit" looks like a nice review of a French wireless group. Of course it's in French but there is a translation via "The Fish" below. http://212.43.239.185/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20010828212206 [http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2F212.43.239.185%2Fperl%2Fnavig.pl%2Fneteconomie%2Finfos%2Farticle%2F20010828212206&lp=fr_en&tt=url&urltext=&doit=done English]

24 August 2001 - Info World

• Ephraim Schwartz writes "'Parasitic grid' wireless movement may threaten telecom profits". Despite the title this is actually a fairly good write up with some nice quotes from MattWestervelt and some wireless ISP's.BR http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/24/010824hnfreewireless.xml

August 2001 - Scientific American

• Wendy Grossman writes "A Dark-Horse Standard Could Win the Broadband Race" standard fare article on 802.11b with a brief mention of Consume.BR http://www.sciam.com/2001/0801issue/0801scicit4.html

17 July 2001 - 802.11 Planet

• Gerry Blackwell writes "Wireless Freenets Put Down Roots" and talks about how WirelessCommunities are settling in for the long haul. BR http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/print/0,,1781_802841,00.html

07 May 2001 - The Feature

• Leander Kahney writes "Home-grown Wireless Networks" and talks about WirelessCommunities being competition for the new 3G networks that the telco's are deploying.BR http://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp?url=article.jsp?pageid=11171

19 December 2000 - Kuro5hin

• Pranshu writes "Why open Internet infrastructure projects are important". A good spiel from one of the Consume guys about why open infrustructure is a "Good Thing". Great stuff.BR http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/12/19/124636/45

01 December 2000' - Salon

• Damien Cave writes "Unchaining the Net", good general coverage of what wireless communities up to with a focus on Seattle Wireless.BR http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/12/01/wireless_ethernet/index.html

12 September 2001 - Slashdot

• Elvis Maximus posts about "Alternative Wireless Networks". Some of the earliest press for WirelessCommunities.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/12/1242213.shtml

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