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I think these numbers speak from themselves, Madcity Broadband stinks. I also don't see much need for it when almost all of the downtown area is covered in free Wi-Fi anyways. I don't see Mayor Dave's vision of citywide Wi-Fi increasing economic development actually coming to fruition. If anything the network is sucking away financial resources to could be better spent.
*April 22*April 22
After spending time in several coffee shops including Fair Trade, Espresso Royale and Starbucks I have learned a few things.
1. People who use computers at coffee shops tend to go alone
3. People who use computers typically only have 1 drink while they are there
An interesting thing I learned about Starbucks is that it is the only one of the coffee shops that actually charges for Wi-Fi access. Typically it costs 3.99 for 2 hours of access, however, ironically at both Starbucks locations near campus Wi-Fi leaks from surrounding buildings which allows customers to be ban]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 16:29:27 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Josh+Cummins email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins edited Josh Cummins March 5
After Lecture I decide to walk down Dayton street with my laptop to see how much Wi-Fi pollution there is from the UW buildings, to see if students really could get a signal in their homes. While I sat on a few porches (pretty creepily) I discovered that Dayton Street West of Park Street is filled with Wi-Fi networks leaking from campus. There is an overlap of the networks originating from campus as well as numerous private networks, some of which are unsecured the way that my neighbors is. Bottom line, if you want to connect to the internet in the area of campus, you won't have much trouble.
**MarchMarch 18
so here I am, in Madison, over Spring Break. Joy to the world. Since I don't have many friends in town I saw this as a great opportunity to do something I've been meaning to do all semester. Today I went for a walk around the Capitol and up and down State Street to determine where the wireless networks are. I was surprised by the results.
It turns out that almost the en]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 16:28:19 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Josh+Cummins email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins edited Josh Cummins February 27
I’ve been paying close attention to the wireless signals that I pick up while I’m on campus or sitting at home and have consistently noticed a weak signal coming from merr.com. When I attempted to connect to it I came to this.
I realized that this was now the Mad City Broadband provider. After doing some research I found that ResTech, the previous top provider of the service, stopped offering Madcity Broadband last May. Now it is only Merr that offers citywide access. You can read about ResTech's decision in this article in the Isthmus [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=6346]
I think I am going to look into the signal strength of Madcity Broadband from my home, which is supposed to fall within the coverage area.
March 1
I am going to run a 45 day test of the service provided by merr.com. Being the cheapskate that I am I am not going to purchase the service, instead I am going to use my Wi-Fi catcher on my laptop to keep track of the strength of the sig]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:05 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Josh+Cummins email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins edited Josh Cummins February 15
Using Wi-Fi in Madison is like breathing, I do it almost everyday and really have begun to take it for granted. I tend to use the wireless service provided by the UW on a near daily basis. It is a rare occasion for me to be on campus and not have my laptop tucked away in my backpack. Occasionally I will venture onto State Street and jump into a coffee shop to get some work done for a change of pace. Without wireless access my life would be completely different. I can’t imagine not being able to access my e-mail at any given moment.
Through the course of this semester I plan to track my usage of wireless closely. Procuring 15 hours of “fieldwork” won’t be an issue as I imagine that I spend about that much time on the internet (always wirelessly) in a given week. Some of the issues I will be tracking are wireless in private realm, public and university. I know there is a citywide service because I subscribed to it last year but I haven’t paid attention to its development since l]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 15:41:14 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Josh+Cummins email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins added Josh Cummins
]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 15:08:40 +0000 add http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Josh+Cummins email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins renamed merr web-1.JPG merr web.JPG ]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 13:15:17 +0000 mvf http://ca346.pbwiki.com/f/merr+web-1.JPG email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins uploaded merr web-1.JPG]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 13:13:16 +0000 upl http://ca346.pbwiki.com/f/merr+web.JPG email.hidden@example.com (Josh Cummins) Josh Cummins uploaded merr web.JPG]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 13:13:01 +0000 upl http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Darren+Gary email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary edited Darren Gary It was nice to get the email back from Dan and it inspired me to go back to the site and mess around for a little while longer, but after racking my mind for a new sticky note to post/wondering if anyone is benefiting from my posting, I wasn't on for longer than 45 minutes or so.
Socialight seems like a very good idea and it could be a useful tool if you live in a big city and have a cell phone with an internet browser on it. Unfortunatly, I do not meet any of those requirements, so it is not the tool for me. I hope to see Socialight continue to grow and prosper on the Internet and advance the technology even further so it is easier and more fun to use!
Darren Gary, Experienced Gary
Experienced Socialight
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i was able to use my friends iphone to recieve some sticky notes, it was very weird though and i did not understand it very much, it was like a flood of information, i may have severed my relationship with my friend...hopefully not.
On another note, I have been 'exploring' a lot lately. Which is fun because socialight uses google maps so you can get very close to buildings and parks and restaurants, etc.
Here is a picture of the explore page on Madison:
4-26
I started my powerpoint today and started to get information together to present. I wish i did not have a million other assignments due at the same time, but the powerpoint is going well and i have a good idea of what i want to say.
I finished my powerpoint for my presentation yesterday and presented today. I was worried at the last minute because I use a Toshiba laptop and Germaine has a Mac, so the powerpoint would not open. but luckily we were able to use my computer for all of the presentations for today.
I have sp]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:36:11 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Darren+Gary email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary renamed explore closeup-1.bmp explore closeup.bmp ]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:35:30 +0000 mvf http://ca346.pbwiki.com/f/explore+closeup-1.bmp email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary uploaded explore closeup-1.bmp]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:35:20 +0000 upl http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Darren+Gary email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary edited Darren Gary I do not think there is a real sense of community to Socialight, because there is virtually no communication (as far as I have found). It is a site that is to be used more as a utility and not a social networking site. By this I mean, the real goal of Socialight is to help invididual people find places to eat, shop, golf, etc but there it does not stress direct interaction between its members. Instead, you are helping out people that might use Socialight that might live in the particular area that you are posting places of interest. I have spent a few hours on Socialight, and so far I find it kind of dull. I try to meet people and send messages, but you can not send a person a message unless you are friends with that person.
Today (4-22) I finally have friends! Three people friended me (all working on the Socialight project) and I gladly accepted. I still have not heard back from a member of Socialight that I friended, maybe it was too weird for that person that I did not know them...
shows my fri]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:28:04 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Darren+Gary email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary edited Darren Gary]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:38 +0000 mod http://ca346.pbwiki.com/f/ottos+closeup.bmp email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary uploaded ottos closeup.bmp]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 12:13:04 +0000 upl http://ca346.pbwiki.com/Darren+Gary email.hidden@example.com (darren gary) darren gary edited Darren Gary 4-28
I finished my powerpoint for my presentation yesterday and presented today. I was worried at the last minute because I use a Toshiba laptop and Germaine has a Mac, so the powerpoint would not open. but luckily we were able to use my computer for all of the presentations for today.
I added:
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I emailed the founders of Socialight with a few questions about their company a while back. Finally, after a week or two I recieved a reply on May 4th:
Hi Darren,
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I have spent much more time on Socialight since my last addition to the wiki. Mostly i have been browsing other people's posts and channels. I occasionally add my own sticky notes to places around campus as well. here is a screenshot of the last sticky note I added:
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I emailed the founders of Socialight with a few questions about their company a while back. Finally, after a week or two I recieved a reply on May 4th:
Hi Darren,
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