Cool article. We (http://IleSansFil.org) just did an protest yesterday at the Independent Media Democracy Day at a Montreal university. We set up a "rogue" access point on a university's network (with the Student's Union's backing) and the splash page was set to:
http://www.edito.qc.ca/imdd/ The IMDD day was organized by Uberculture (http://www.mediawrench.ca), a group dedicated to corporate accountability, and was partially funded by the National Film Board (http://citizen.nfb.ca). IleSansFil was commissioned by Uberculture to set up a the wireless network for the day with the custom splash page. Hopefully you will all excuse the rhetoric on the captive portal page, but we wanted to make sure that people got the point. Also, there was miscommunication regarding which group was supposed to do the content for the captive portal so we ended up slapping a page together last minute. Something that we did that was kind of cool was setting up a place for people to share online resources. We gave them a little box to submit urls that would be helpful to other media activists. It was very under-utilized, but it's on the right track for us in our goal of using our hotspots to create community. http://www.edito.qc.ca/imdd/suggest.php I tried to give credit to Julian Bleeker for the idea but I did say that it was the first time activists (Uberculture) used the captive portal for an activist purpose (not just to demonstrate the potential, or as a theoretical exercise). I still don't know if that's true and I would still like to be corrected if any of you know of someone already having done it. On a potentially related note(?), this morning I went to my part-time job for that same university's IT department (level 1 phone support) and was fired ;-) Cheers, Mike Pictures: http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/Projects/IMDD --- Dana Spiegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gotham Gazette - > http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/tech/20041019/19/1154 > > *Tech, Art, Protest and Politics > by Laura Forlano > October 10, 2004* > <snip> ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
