shared inspiration

I find it startling that Mike from ile sans fil has so recently expressed self-doubt about the work they are doing on local services on open wireless networks.
Our conversations since have convinced me that we have something more promising, more nearly ready to go that i could have dreamt. For some time i’ve had a […]

free information infrastructures next generation

While attending the MDCN mobile/locative arts meetup in Montreal, i was glad to be able to spend time with Mike Lenczner, of the local community wireless network ile sans fil, and some of the people he’s galvanised around him. (Montreal is apparently an island, much in the way that Portsmouth is; unnoticeably.)
I was hugely impressed […]

wireless london and accessories

Busily hacking together prototypes for Wireless London, a free network service collection thing.
The package will eventually contain an RSS aggregator server; written using the redland python interface, and a standalone GiST based spatial index. I’m planning to cobble together a generic RDF aggregator package soon, mostly from other peoples’ rss storage and feed parsing code. […]

oranges and lemons

Back in London for a while after a year’s absence, i find myself re-involved in a longstanding project to rebuild the consume.net node database and documentation set in a fashion that should include lots of RDF metadata for nodes, an Open Guide and a feedback mechanism to help get people involved in local mentorings.
As it’s […]

locative packets

in latvia recently i was working on some data-sharing models for media metadata annotated with space and time, with andrew paterson of the aware project. it’s mostly cobbled together from other vocabularies.
The hopeful plan is to gather a lot of metadata about the proceedings of these workshops, and bring it together in interesting visualisations in […]