Hey Andrea,

Thanks for the link.

I figured that someone had already done that.  Too
straight-foward an idea for someone not to have
thought of already.

We'll be using that idea (activist splash page) for a
International Democratic Media Day at a local
university (http://www.mediawrench.ca).  We're just
supplying the technology - they'll put up the content.
They're calling it a guerilla wireless portal, or
pirate wifi (pirate radio) or something.

We will be doing ours centrally, not that that's
necessarily better than the Bedoin projects
disconnected local network. Technically it will be
using a feature of Wifidog, an OSS captive portal
solution we developed this summer that, among other
things, allows giving a different splash page for each
hotspot.

mike

 --- Andrea Moed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Julian Bleecker's done stuff like that using his
> Wi-Fi Bedouin rig. See 
> www.techkwondo.com.
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:58:37 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Michael Lenczner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [nycwireless] activist use of splash
> pages?
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Has anybody heard of activists finding creative
> uses
> > for splash pages on wireless networks?  Examples
> like
> > creating a hotspot for the Starbucks across the
> street
> > with the splash page being "10 reasons why you
> should
> > buy fair trade coffee"?
> >
> > Google doesn't turn up anything relevant under
> "splash
> > page" + wifi, or "pirate wifi".
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
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