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Recent News
3 July 2002 - Public Hotspot in NYC
Bryant Park in New York City is now is a free wireless hotspot thanks to NycWireless. NYC Wireless, a volunteer community group of computer wizards, provided the expertise to make Bryant Park the first park in the world to offer free 802.11b wireless computing to its patrons. Go wireless and do work while enjoying the park.
1 July 2002 - Time Warner Sending Out Cease and Desist Letters in NYC
Time Warner sent out a nasty letter to an NycWireless [http://rickt.org/stuff/soho_wireless/twcnyc/ member]. He [http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/28/2011241.shtml posted to] SlashDot later with his personal comments. I doubt this will be an isolated case. [Update: The [http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01WIFI.html?pagewanted=print New York Times] has a take on the letter.]
25 June 2002 - Article on Warchalking
It may be slashdotted, but [http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/ Let's Warchalk!] suggests marking wireless access spots with chalk symbols. Your call as to whether this is useful or just more graffiti.