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August 17, 2005
Another reason to move to San Francisco...
(Because there are many.)
From Wired News:
San Francisco wants ideas for making the entire 49-square-mile city a free — or at least cheap — Wi-Fi zone.Awesome!
Read the rest here.
Posted at 1:40 pm
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This is a trend I hope to see more of in general. I’ll be live-blogging my Seattle trip in October thanks to free in-room Wi-Fi at the hotel I selected.
Nick Kristof also wrote a nice article in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago about a rural county in eastern Oregon that is more wired than a lot of major American cities. Kristof wrote about checking his e-mail as he was being driven through farm country.
Nick Kristof also wrote a nice article in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago about a rural county in eastern Oregon that is more wired than a lot of major American cities. Kristof wrote about checking his e-mail as he was being driven through farm country.
Shepcat () (URL) - August 17, 2005 at 3:45 pm
Well, having it in a hotel is one thing, but having it anywhere in the city — like the NY Times reporter in the farm country… Now that would be cool!
timsamoff () (URL) - August 17, 2005 at 4:02 pm
ummm…..... yep. i’m lost. wha?
dennisthemenace () - August 17, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Go here — http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles.. — to read about Google’s somewhat Orwellian-sounding plan to create a free* nationwide Wi-Fi network.
- Ah, but there’s always a catch, isn’t there?
Shepcat () (URL) - August 18, 2005 at 6:38 pm
Well, in my opinion, internet should be provided by the government to anyone paying income tax… But, maybe that’s just me? (Dang my socialist viewpoints!) 
timsamoff () (URL) - August 19, 2005 at 10:15 am
don’t even get me started, Tim.
dennisthemenace () - August 19, 2005 at 10:23 am
Umm, yet another reason to move to Portland instead of the bay, even. We’ve already got a grass-roots volunteer organization that’s already put in 55 free hot-spots all over Portland (read more about them at http://www.personaltelco.net/static/inde..). Also, the city has made plans, backed by Intel, to create a very cheap “wireless cloud” over PDX. Read more about it in the Oregonian, published just yesterday (http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business/1124462772256260.xml?oregonian?fng&coll=7).
Don’t mean to float our own boat here, but PDX ROCKS!
Don’t mean to float our own boat here, but PDX ROCKS!
p.e.horner () (URL) - August 19, 2005 at 5:51 pm
i was in Newberg couple months ago. Wish i lived there. soon!
dennisthemenace () - August 19, 2005 at 6:11 pm
That is pretty freakin’ cool, Peder! 
timsamoff () (URL) - August 19, 2005 at 8:32 pm
tim, that’s a great photo. the color of the sky is unreal. very cool.
Zach (URL) - August 22, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Thanks, Zach… Yeah, after I got home, and was looking at the photos I had taken, I was struck by how much I had been influenced by all of the iPod ads that permeate San Francisco. Funny, eh?
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timsamoff () (URL) - August 22, 2005 at 4:28 pm
