http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1816 Comments for "Vanishing Free WiFi" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1816 <p>Same old story, once the covered wagons arrive, the frontier goes all to pieces. First it's their priests and lawyers, then it's their box-malls and food-courts. I'm headed to Toronto first part of the week, <a href="//mt/archives/000894.html" title="just shy of a year">first time in a long time</a>, and it seems much has changed on <a title="The Globe and Mail" href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040301.gtwifi0301/BNPrint/Technology/?mainhub=GT">the free WiFi landscape</a> ... <em>people will actually pay ten cents a minute for WiFi!</em> <a href="http://www.warchalking.org/"><img src="http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/warchalk0_9.gif" alt="" height="200" width="200" class="right" /></a></p> <p>My, how times change. I haven't paid $0.10/min since, I don't know, 1992? Albeit, that was for a lowly 2400 dialup; of course, that was for data streams measured in 1992 bits, and we all know that 1 bit then was worth about 1kb in today's equivalent information value.</p> <p>Nonetheless, armed with some however outdated <a href="http://www.wififreespot.com/can.html">spot lists</a> and <a href="http://wifi.paip.net/" title="Interactive CAP Map Generator"><span class="caps">CAP </span>maps</a>, between waiting in government offices and meeting up with my urban-bound friends, I'll be spending at least a few hours on the prowl for friendly warchalks -- tips to warm, dry, loiterer-tolerant locales nearby 393 University are greatly appreciated.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1816#comments the skin of culture Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:54:15 -0500 mrG 1816 at http://blog.teledyn.com