Unless anyone else has spotted some, is this piece on ZDnet (they phoned me this morning!)
"A new fad in London is taking the Internet community by storm: chalking runes on pavements and walls to indicate the presence of a wireless networking nodeSeventy years ago, during the Depression in the US, hobos drew signs to indicate to each other where they could get a meal. Now, across the Atlantic in London, geeks are talking about using a similar system of chalk symbols to signal where they can get a decent wireless Internet connection."
» ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - Warchalking: London Wi-Fi guerrillas take tips from hobos
Posted by matt at June 26, 2002 04:19 PMGood to see ZDnet on the ball - with a nice swipe at the consume.net curmudgeons:
However, the idea does not appear to be universally popular. The organisers of London-based community wireless project consume.net, for instance, do not appear to overly impressed. "I am one of those people trying to seriously encourage community networking and if that activity is seen to be some sort of cracker plot it will be damaged," wrote one consume.net member on the Slashdot Weblog
That'd be a fine point if consume.net wasn't so impenetrable and complicated to set up.
Hey - what was that sound? Thunder being stolen?
Posted by paulpod at June 26, 2002 06:43 PMNot only are consume.net overly complicated to set up, they appear to do nothing else but talk.
Some groups, such as the one I'm in, are actually setting up nodes at the moment, and are in talks with local business about hardware and bandwidth donations for public wireless access.
Just my 2p
Posted by Kyle at June 26, 2002 08:45 PMI feel that whoever wrote the story *has* misrepresented this. The main driving forces behind consume are well behind warchalking. Whoever was quoted probably is not a consume advocate .. but has more a commercial slant on the wireless community.
Posted by adhoc at September 6, 2002 10:15 AM