Monthly Archives: March 2008

Why doesn’t Birmingham have wifi like Austin?

9th

Mar. × ’08

By stef

A conversation with Pete Ashton at SXSW about Birmingham’s woefully inadequate and probably very expensive wifi solution, compared to the ‘everyone just make their connections free’ model that Austin has.
It’s excellent here - if Birmingham wants to be a ‘digital’ city it needs to get with the programme.

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Dorking at Dorkbot

9th

Mar. × ’08

By stef

We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. Something to bring to the UK?

Pete loved the robots. I loved the interactive visual feedback loop Eric Archer had made. It was good:

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As promised… bikehugger

9th

Mar. × ’08

By stef

We’re in a ‘want us to do stuff?’ mood so we head over to Bikehugger at the request of someone who left a message at sxswm and got an interview with a Bikehugger blogger.

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