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From the monthly archives: August 2007

Chapel Hill Launches Wi-Fi Pilot Project

By BrianR On August 30, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Town email newsletter â€œChapel Hill eNewsâ€™ just announced WiFi pilot will be at the following locations.

(1.) U.S. Post Office, 179 E. Franklin St.
(2.) Old Town Hall (IFC Shelter), 100 W. Rosemary St.
(3.) Town Parking Lot 5, 108 Church St.
(4.) Hargraves Center, 216 N. Roberson St.
(5.) [...]

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TOWNofCH-WiFi is Here!

By BrianR On August 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I just used the new Town of Chapel Hill WiFi for the first time. I was having lunch on Franklin street and got my laptop out. This is what I found in front of the Post Office.

SSID: TOWNofCH-WiFi
Channel: 6
Open

Now we need more public seating in front of the [...]

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Plaxo Online Identity Consolidator

By BrianR On August 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Plaxo is releasing software behind its Pulse service. Basically, by using Microformats XFN info Pulse will aggregate your various online contacts. So if you have accounts at gmail, msn, yahoo, flickr, twitter, facebook, etc. you can consolidate it to understand how they connect with each other and create new connections. [...]

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Learn from The Pinky Show

By BrianR On August 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Pink and Bunny are Cats. They have a video camera and like to share what they know. This is their show’s trailer The Pinky Show, in a Nutshell. (this link is to a page with a QuickTime version of this vid) Man this stuff is brilliant.

Thanks for sharing Paul!

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US TV beats Iran War Drum!

By BrianR On August 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We don’t need another War. The US should not invade Iran! Don’t let Fox or any other network fool you. Haven’t enough people died for Bush and Cheney’s war profiteering?

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More Truth to Power Sen. Edwards

By BrianR On August 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

via AlterNet:

Sen. Edwards campaigning in New Hampsire:

“Real change starts with being honest — the system in Washington is rigged and our government is broken. It’s rigged by greedy corporate powers to protect corporate profits. It’s rigged by the very wealthy to ensure they become even wealthier. At the end of the [...]

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My View on WiFi in Chapel Hill News

By BrianR On August 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A short opinion piece I wrote appears on the front page of todays Chapel Hill News. Its called Wi-Fi for the People. Its about my recent efforts to bring public WiFi to Chapel Hill, the new WiFi pilot project slated to start September 1, and the Chapel Hill Wireless Tailgate Parties.

In the [...]

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MuniWireless blogs about Wireless in Chapel Hill

By BrianR On August 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Carol Ellison over at MuniWireless.com has written a post called Turning infrastructures into true community networks. Its about our work in Chapel Hill to bring attention to new public wifi hotspots. Hopefully on September 1 we will have five new public WiFi hotspots sponsored by the Town of Chapel Hill.

The post [...]

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Share the Chapel Hill Wireless Map

By BrianR On August 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

April/May of last year (2006) I created the WordPress blog and Google Maps mash up Chapel Hill Wireless. The goal was to help people find wireless hotspots in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina. Since then Anton created Durham Wireless and Zach created Asheville Wireless. Plus lots of other [...]

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