http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/ Collaboratively creating a hobo-language for free wireless networking. en-us I'm in New York, and I'll be presenting a potted history of the warchalking meme and participating in a workshop... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000339.html One of the best pieces I've read about warchalking: Chicago Sun-Times: Movement wants uniform icons for Wi-Fi bubbles "Warchalking (www.warchalking.org)... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000336.html Thanks for all the offers of hosting and software development. Going to try and get it finalised this week. Some... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000335.html Had a crazy week: loads of email from what's starting to become a real community, and much (maybe too much)... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000325.html We made the BBC's national TV news!!! [realmedia only, stream here]... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000323.html Happens to be the title of a great track on the latest Wilco album, and also the subject that Sid... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000316.html Eric writes: "hullo, just wanted to share my warchalking experiences and let you know that this is the best thing... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000315.html Some fantastic stuff here from Mathias in Grenoble, France - movies, maps and photos of the 'volunteer variation'. "I've put... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000314.html Tony Collen writes: "i'm planning on warchalking the U of Minnesota's twin cities campus as soon as i get my... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000313.html Two NoCat-related suggestions: One from Pete Ferne: "Hi Matt I like the warchalking idea a lot but I think the... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000312.html m0u53 Tekk puts this question: "I thought I'd see if there was some sort of central database of access points... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000311.html Shelly writes: " I was trying to figure out how I could use my wireless capabilities to stay connected in... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000310.html Vince writes "I've put up WEP signs for the wireless nodes around the building, the user base is building up... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000309.html Take your pick: Spoofs Funny: ChalkChalking Funny and maybe useful: PubChalking (ahem) WhoreChalking Spinoffs: Sailing up daypop: Blogchalking... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000295.html In French, warchalking becomes Craiefiti! » Wifi Montauban - Craie Fiti... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000294.html from Tony "Hello and greetings! I think this is a great idea. I was reviewing your current symbols and I... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000293.html This from Matt Sephton: "Hi there, I was just walking down Oxford Street at lunch time and spotted this chalk... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000292.html Sorry for lack of updates. Someone clever moved perl on the machine my blogs live on, and MoveableType didn't like... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000289.html If you're in the USA, happy 4th of July! Why not celebrate your freedom by warchalking!!! Sporadic to non-existent updates... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000288.html Non-exhaustive list of articles that have sprung up - some are know moving beyond the initial "hey - chalk! wifi!... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000287.html Magma mails: "hello, myself and RT run packetninja.ca, a site all about wireless skanning. a friend of mine sent me... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000286.html From Sebastian: "hi matt & all chalkers, first of all, thanks to all for the great idea and inspiration here... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000285.html John Murden sends us this: "War Chalking is a great idea! I haven't seen a mark 'in the wild' yet... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000284.html Fred writes: "Hey I'm the admin of wardriving.com and just got caught up on this, must say very cool. I... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000283.html Trey Dismukes has this to say: "I had a suggestion for the warchalking icons. Since most open AP’s have their... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000282.html Jacob Jay writes: "Just came across the site via the Joy of Tech comic (http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/354.html) and I think this is... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000281.html Danny does!... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000280.html Jay DeBoer points us to an amazing page on his site, where he shares his wardriving set-up, including a hacked... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000279.html Yay - here come the information architects! Mike Lee writes from Baltimore: "Doing my bit to propagate the meme, I... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000278.html John Keimel writes: "Hi there. Great idea for the warchalking bit. Kind of cool. I have to chime in on... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000277.html Sean Munson has been busy: "Hi, I took a stab at writing a PHP warchalk symbol generator that follows the... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000276.html From Will Benedict: "This is a quick mock up of how I think this whole symbol thing should go down.... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000275.html This is one of the most charming examples so far I think from Peter Rukavina: "Since we installed WiFi here... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000274.html Richard Lotz has this to say: "I thought I might add a few suggestions. First, I think bandwidth is almost... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000273.html Tony Collen wrote and offered as he put it, a random thought: "geocaching + warchalking = ???"... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000272.html Magnus Lander writes: "I have to say, I laughed for several minutes when I first heard of "warchalking".. and giggled... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000271.html Ben Morretti extends the functional-set somewhat :-)... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000270.html Apologies for my tardiness in updating the blog or answering your emails - it's been an overwhelming weekend. I'm about... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000269.html Wow! This is awesome! Doughnuts and warchalking!!! "Matt, I'm the CIO of the State of Utah. We network over 250... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000265.html Yonah writes: "...I am also waiting for someone to put up chalkmarks on my driveway - even if I did... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000264.html Warchalking Denmark! Ben writes: "Hi Matt, I love this warchalking! So I chalked up my access point last night, and... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000263.html Busy day at work, so few updates I imagine. My current plan is to get V1.0 up here when it's... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000261.html Steve writes: "Hey there, I've been following the warchalking thing for the past few days and thought I'd toss my... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000260.html Now this is genius. Phil Torrone has put together a little pocketPC warwalking/warchalking combo flash app. I >>hearthobo phil... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000259.html Dean Hall and Yoz have done a great piece of tag-team warchalk-work; writing and hosting an automatic warchalking symbol generator:... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000258.html Tim Stiles has this to say: "I've seen the discussions on slashdot and noted a few people's conclusion jumping that... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000257.html Jason Gull writes [my emboldening]: "First off, I have to agree with those who've already chimed in to say that... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000256.html This from Richard Giles:"In London today a gang war broke out over a territorial dispute. However, the territory was not... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000255.html Hey, we made it onto public radio. Here's an interview I did yesterday with John Gordon of Minnesota Public Radio;... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000254.html Nick writes with historical precedent for "less is more": "Fire marks: when fire engines were privately run by insurance companies,... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000251.html Bill Moller's got some great stuff here for the "less is more" camp: "Before too much work is put into... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000250.html Pun intended... "Swamp" writes to let us know that there is a urban sport that uses chalk symbols - need... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000249.html As I think I've mentioned, the original spur to the idea was seeing some architectural students chalk up a life-size... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000248.html Goopy's quick off the mark... :-)... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000247.html Goopy sent me this - good innit! Goopy also suggests that all good movements/subcultures need mascots and t-shirts. He/She's going... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000246.html [J. Jonah Jameson value=100%] I need pictures, dammit!!! [/J. Jonah Jameson]... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000245.html Excellente. James Docherty has registered Warchalking.org and it should now point here. Hopefully someone else has some ideas about hosting... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000244.html James Docherty sends this: "Attached is a quick diagram which having just looked at the site is now very obsolete... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000243.html Unless anyone else has spotted some, is this piece on ZDnet (they phoned me this morning!) "A new fad in... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000242.html this from Wolf, rendered in ascii, but some good ideas for inclusion by someone with a graphics package! "Hello again,... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000240.html This is awesome: "I just made a visio for the warchalk symbol. Can you add it to your site? http://www.retina.net/~jna/warchalk.vsd... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000238.html Bill Moller writes: "Someone had mentioned directionality... I think with your circle that it would be very very easy, and... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000237.html Jeff Howard mailed me with a wonderful long list of tweaks to my orginal design, and included a v0.9.1 pdf!... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000236.html Quite a few emails and comments suggesting that the less info on the symbols, the better - paring it back... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000234.html A number of folk, including Paul Bissex and Patrick Dench have mailed to suggested a glossary, or war-chalking for dummies... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000233.html Nancy writes: "do you know if anyone in the u.s. has started thinking about doing this? i write for the... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000231.html Reminded through conversations today of memedebt I owe people for this idea. So here goes. I walked from my office... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000230.html Now I know how it feels to be slashdotted. Erk. Anyway - the /. comments have some good points about... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000227.html Heheh. We're number 5. on daypop too as I write. "It'll be the new "tagging". Cops will be on the... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000224.html A couple of good suggestions already - A few people have talked about the directionality stuff. I'm thinking arrows with... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000223.html Ben gets the inaugural warchalking pic - he's chalked up his kynance mews access point, and damn - it looks... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000222.html Lots of mail/IM asking why it's called "warchalking". Well - it's a pun on "warwalking" - which itself was derived... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000221.html Okay so here is the first draft of a warchalking symbol card. Having not very much experience of war-walking or... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000219.html Some great resources and thoughts on hobo language for the modern age over at Antenna.... http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/archives/000218.html