Build a community wireless network! A mention of it on GeekNews led me to some interesting “open source-ish” projects where by groups of people are connecting their SoHo WANs together to create P2P wireless backbones. Sweet!

eek … time to find a new DSL provider: AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications

from the Economist.com “Rumours are circulating of a superconductor that works at room temperature”

sweet! … “A Swedish company says it’s created the first P2P software for wireless. The Bluetooth-based software aims to let a roomful of people swap files with no strings attached.”

it’s both! check out the Uproar Wireless Phone/MP3 Player

$70 to broadcast your mp3s from your desktop to your home stereo sounds like a good deal to me … [more here]

i want one of these … Kerbango!

from dave … Steve johnson talks about ’ swarm logic ’ and the next wave of publishing.

interesting … Macromedia announced Tuesday a $360 million merger with Allaire

from slashdot: jon katz’s second in a series of essays on Open Media Take Two: The Sensemakers
some interesting quotes:
“Sensemaking — organizing and transmitting data via the distributed architecture of the Net — is the big idea behind the rise of Open Media.”
“Connecting information consumers with information may become one of the defining elements of successful media in the 21st Century.”
“…help people keep up with the information most relevant to their interests”