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[Ideas For Dozens] After I told him about my idea for bloggable public space, my housemate/bandmate, Cary, thought of an interesting extension to it. In addition to creating a community bulletin board-style blog, the venues could use their wifi hotspots to distribute music. Just as the Austin Wireless City Project did during the recent SXSW interactive media conference, these businesses could set up Rendezvous networks and use them to allow customers on their wifi networks to listen to a particular set of songs they made available.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] Unauthenticated Letter from Gary Shapiro to Cary Sherman - The ...: Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry: inappropriate or purely promotional comments may be removed. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you.

[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] RIAA adds downloaders to the lawsuit mix? - The Digital Music ...: According to theRegister, the RIAA has added music downloaders to the list of offenders in the most recent lawsuits.  The Register has a copy of one of the letters sent to University execs at the University of Northern Colorado, in which RIAA president, Cary Sherman, thanks the President of UoNC and looks to alleviate any fears that the University may be held responsible.  The letter can be seen <here>.  As an excerpt:

[Wififreespot.com] free wi-fi Virginia hotspots wireless internet access list: Every attempt is being made to keep this Directory timely and accurate. If you find that a listed location no longer offers free Wi-Fi internet access or if you want to tell us about a location not listed please E-Mail us

[Wififreespot.com] free wi-fi North Carolina hotspots wireless internet access list: Read the Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Weblog for recent news and information about Wireless Internet Access, hotspots and Wi-Fi-FreeSpots and recent additions to the Wi-Fi-FreeSpot Directory.

[Capitolfax.blogspot.com] The Capitol Fax Blog: FreeFi: Illinois FreeFi is a bloggy type site that lists free WiFi locations throughout the state. It's part of a national effort to root out as many free WiFi hotspots as possible. Not surprisingly, Springfield kinda sucks.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Hotspot, Sxsw, SXSW, SxSW, Wireless Networking News

Posted at May 29, 2005 12:03 PM