Personal Telco Press Covereage

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March 2002 - alt.portland.or.us

• chezxx writes "Their site will tell you all you need to know. And man, they have some great technical links on all things open source!" Cool, a listing in the alternative guide to Portland! BR http://alt.portland.or.us/consume/cyber.shtml

March 2002 - Red Herring

• Christopher Locke writes "Broadbanding Together". This is a great article, there are some minor technical inaccuracies but the overall mentality of article is very positive and supportive. Great stuff. BR http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0307/2145.html

26 February 2002 - Radio Interview on KXL (750 AM)

• BrianWestbrook interviewed AdamShand live and on the air from the Pioneer Courthouse Square node at 7:40AM. The interview was about five minutes long and was great coverage during the morning commute!

19 February 2002 - The Oregonian

• Jeffrey Kosseff writes "Personal Telco sets up free Net access". It's nice to finally get some press in the Oregonian but I (AdamShand) haven't been quoted that out of context for quite a while and the StealingBandwidth refrain is getting particularly tired, especially given that this was about the PioneerSquareNode which is powered by business T1's.BR [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/business/10141233403272895.xml http://www.oregonlive.com/]

February 2002 - Portland Business Journal

• Aliza Earnshaw writes "'Geeks' unite in a quest to make wireless world". AdamShand got his mug on the front page and it's also a pretty nice article about what's going on in Portland with PersonalTelco. There are mentions of EasyStreet's Rich Bader helping out and supporting the project.BR http://portland.bcentral.com/portland/stories/2002/02/04/story3.html

January 2002 - Government Technology

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

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 - Broadband Wireless Online

• Christopher Ambrosini writes "Seeds of Change", a general overview of what community networks are about and the problems they face. A brief mention of PersonalTelco as a group which "aspires to organize the collectives and provide information to others".BR http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/magazine/volume.asp?vol=21&story=207

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

12 February 2002 - Slashdot

• Martin Dodge posted "WLAN Visualization Meets GIS Mapping". The Wireless Network Visualization Project (Univ. of Kansas). These guys are mapping out the zone of availability using gis. Nice maps using aerial photographs backdrops as wellBR http://slashdot.org/articles/02/02/12/1317227.shtml?tid=95

22 January 2002 - Slashdot

• Chris Meder posted "Mega Public WAN In Sydney". Basically broadband users tired of Telstra's BigPond Internet have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/23/0042242.shtml

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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