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Wireless network mapping is all the rage again. I’ve spent a fair amount of time researching and building prototypes in this space over the last couple of years. After 6 months of stasis, WirelessLondon recently unearthed a small budget surplus, which would pay for 7 days of my time among other things. We’re trying to […]

i’ve been documenting the latest version of the toolkit that i’ve been building for wirelesslondon / node.london
nodel HOWTO
nodel source and description
i saw an article today by Kendall Clark that describes a similar concept (’Semantic Web Meets Ruby on Rails’ ideas) - Semantic MVC at o’reillynet, and this blog about ruby semweb interface generators which looks […]

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 […]

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 […]

I am experiencing a bout of that same compulsion to verbiage that must bother regular bloggers daily - a kind of blogohrrea. Having exhausted the patience of my irc friends, i turn to the web as a verbal outlet.
In theory, times are very interesting. Semantic web projects with a spatial aspect, that i’ve been tinkering […]

i did a talk, on the theme Semantic City, at the Architecture Association school. This was alongside the very interesting John Bell who has a whole ‘unit’ to help him do interestng things with bluetooth based micro broadcasting, sensors and crowd motion analysis…
it is a story about dispersed information infrastructure, knowledge in the world and […]

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. […]

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 […]