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- Excuses? What excuses? Heh heh.... |
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- I'm in New York, and I'll be presenting a potted history of the warchalking meme and participating in a workshop... |
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- One of the best pieces I've read about warchalking: Chicago Sun-Times: Movement wants uniform icons for Wi-Fi bubbles "Warchalking (www.warchalking.org)... |
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- Thanks for all the offers of hosting and software development. Going to try and get it finalised this week. Some... |
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- Had a crazy week: loads of email from what's starting to become a real community, and much (maybe too much)... |
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- We made the BBC's national TV news!!! [realmedia only, stream here]... |
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War on War? (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Happens to be the title of a great track on the latest Wilco album, and also the subject that Sid... |
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- Eric writes: "hullo, just wanted to share my warchalking experiences and let you know that this is the best thing... |
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- Some fantastic stuff here from Mathias in Grenoble, France - movies, maps and photos of the 'volunteer variation'. "I've put... |
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- Tony Collen writes: "i'm planning on warchalking the U of Minnesota's twin cities campus as soon as i get my... |
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NoCat nodes (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Two NoCat-related suggestions: One from Pete Ferne: "Hi Matt I like the warchalking idea a lot but I think the... |
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- m0u53 Tekk puts this question: "I thought I'd see if there was some sort of central database of access points... |
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- Shelly writes: " I was trying to figure out how I could use my wireless capabilities to stay connected in... |
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Beyond wep (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Vince writes "I've put up WEP signs for the wireless nodes around the building, the user base is building up... |
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- Take your pick: Spoofs Funny: ChalkChalking Funny and maybe useful: PubChalking (ahem) WhoreChalking Spinoffs: Sailing up daypop: |
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- In French, warchalking becomes Craiefiti! » Wifi Montauban - Craie Fiti... |
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- from Tony "Hello and greetings! I think this is a great idea. I was reviewing your current symbols and I... |
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- This from Matt Sephton: "Hi there, I was just walking down Oxford Street at lunch time and spotted this chalk... |
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- Sorry for lack of updates. Someone clever moved perl on the machine my blogs live on, and MoveableType didn't like... |
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- If you're in the USA, happy 4th of July! Why not celebrate your freedom by warchalking!!! Sporadic to non-existent updates... |
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- Non-exhaustive list of articles that have sprung up - some are know moving beyond the initial "hey - chalk! wifi!... |
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- Magma mails: "hello, myself and RT run packetninja.ca, a site all about wireless skanning. a friend of mine sent me... |
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Beautiful (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - From Sebastian: "hi matt & all chalkers, first of all, thanks to all for the great idea and inspiration here... |
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- John Murden sends us this: "War Chalking is a great idea! I haven't seen a mark 'in the wild' yet... |
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- Fred writes: "Hey I'm the admin of wardriving.com and just got caught up on this, must say very cool. I... |
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- Trey Dismukes has this to say: "I had a suggestion for the warchalking icons. Since most open AP’s have their... |
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- Jacob Jay writes: "Just came across the site via the Joy of Tech comic (http://www. geekculture. com/joyoftech/joyarchives/354. |
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- Jay DeBoer points us to an amazing page on his site, where he shares his wardriving set-up, including a hacked... |
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- Yay - here come the information architects! Mike Lee writes from Baltimore: "Doing my bit to propagate the meme, I... |
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- John Keimel writes: "Hi there. Great idea for the warchalking bit. Kind of cool. I have to chime in on... |
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- Sean Munson has been busy: "Hi, I took a stab at writing a PHP warchalk symbol generator that follows the... |
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- From Will Benedict: "This is a quick mock up of how I think this whole symbol thing should go down.... |
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- This is one of the most charming examples so far I think from Peter Rukavina: "Since we installed WiFi here... |
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- Richard Lotz has this to say: "I thought I might add a few suggestions. First, I think bandwidth is almost... |
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- Tony Collen wrote and offered as he put it, a random thought: "geocaching + warchalking = ???"... |
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- Magnus Lander writes: "I have to say, I laughed for several minutes when I first heard of "warchalking".. and giggled... |
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- Ben Morretti extends the functional-set somewhat :-)... |
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- Apologies for my tardiness in updating the blog or answering your emails - it's been an overwhelming weekend. I'm about... |
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Wibocops (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Wow! This is awesome! Doughnuts and warchalking!!! "Matt, I'm the CIO of the State of Utah. We network over 250... |
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- Yonah writes: "...I am also waiting for someone to put up chalkmarks on my driveway - even if I did... |
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- Warchalking Denmark! Ben writes: "Hi Matt, I love this warchalking! So I chalked up my access point last night, and... |
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- Busy day at work, so few updates I imagine. My current plan is to get V1.0 up here when it's... |
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- Steve writes: "Hey there, I've been following the warchalking thing for the past few days and thought I'd toss my... |
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pockethobo (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Now this is genius. Phil Torrone has put together a little pocketPC warwalking/warchalking combo flash app. I >>hearthobo phil... |
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- Dean Hall and Yoz have done a great piece of tag-team warchalk-work; writing and hosting an automatic warchalking symbol generator:... |
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- Tim Stiles has this to say: "I've seen the discussions on slashdot and noted a few people's conclusion jumping that... |
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- Jason Gull writes [my emboldening]: "First off, I have to agree with those who've already chimed in to say that... |
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wibo-tribo (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - This from Richard Giles:"In London today a gang war broke out over a territorial dispute. However, the territory was not... |
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- Hey, we made it onto public radio. Here's an interview I did yesterday with John Gordon of Minnesota Public Radio;... |
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Fire marks (Feb 05 2003 23:36 GMT) - Nick writes with historical precedent for "less is more": "Fire marks: when fire engines were privately run by insurance companies,... |
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- Bill Moller's got some great stuff here for the "less is more" camp: "Before too much work is put into... |
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- Pun intended... "Swamp" writes to let us know that there is a urban sport that uses chalk symbols - need... |
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- As I think I've mentioned, the original spur to the idea was seeing some architectural students chalk up a life-size... |
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- Goopy's quick off the mark... :-)... |
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- Goopy sent me this - good innit! Goopy also suggests that all good movements/subcultures need mascots and t-shirts. He/She's going... |
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- [J. Jonah Jameson value=100%] I need pictures, dammit!!! [/J. Jonah Jameson]... |
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- Excellente. James Docherty has registered Warchalking.org and it should now point here. Hopefully someone else has some ideas about hosting... |
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- James Docherty sends this: "Attached is a quick diagram which having just looked at the site is now very obsolete... |
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- Unless anyone else has spotted some, is this piece on ZDnet (they phoned me this morning!) "A new fad in... |
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- this from Wolf, rendered in ascii, but some good ideas for inclusion by someone with a graphics package! "Hello again,... |
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