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Invisible terrain of wifi networks

apropos of nothing, but check out this project which explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. There's more on this project here and here and check out the flickr photos. Enjoy!

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

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How should spectrum be managed?

A veritable who's-who of the legal world -- or at least where legal meets the internet! -- was on hand last saturday (3/8) for the Legal Futures Conference at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. Actually, Saturday's sessions were free and open to the public, while Friday's sessions were invitation-only. FCC chair Kevin Martin spoke on Friday about networks and their management. Why we should care about the spectrum debate Saturday's sessions Conference Speakers: * Jamie Boyle / Professor of Law, Duke Law School; Co-Founder, Center for the Study of the Public Domain * Tim Bresnahan / Landau Professor in Technology & the Economy, Stanford University * Michael Callahan / Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Yahoo! * Tom Campbell / Dean, U.C. Berkeley Business School * Paul Cappuccio / General Counsel, Time Warner * Dan Cooperman / General Counsel, Apple; former General Counsel, Oracle * David Drummond / Senior Vice President, Google * Lauren Gelman / Executive Director, Center for Internet and Society and Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School * Jamie Gorelick / Partner, WilmerHale; former U.S. Deputy Attorney General * Jennifer Granick / Civil Liberties Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation * Joi Ito / Chair, Creative Commons; Founder & CEO, Neoteny * Michael Jacobson / General Counsel, eBay * Jeff Jonas / Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics Continue reading

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