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37. Townsend has since started a blog, Urban Blogs (http://urban.blogs.com/).
38. Jim Baller, quoted in Karl Bode, ‘‘Jim Baller: Municipal Broadband Attorney,’’
Broadband Reports interview, available at http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/
28553.
39. Ibid.
40. ‘‘The Wireless Commons Manifesto,’’ available at http://amsterdam.nettime.org/
Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0212/msg00136.html.
41. Ibid.
42. Lars Lerup, quoted in Brandon Hookway, Pandemonium (New York: Princeton
Architectural Press, 1999), 7.
43. Jo Reid, speech to the E-Culture Fair, Amsterdam, October 24, 2003.
44. According to Matt Adams of Blast Theory, in a keynote address at Amsterdam
New Media Institute Summer School, Amsterdam, August 27, 2004.
45. See the group’s website at http://www.bristolwireless.net/.
46. DAWN is a project undertaken by the Networks and Telecommunications Research
Group (NTRG) of Trinity College Dublin. ‘‘The aim is to build a production
ad-hoc network operational in the entire city of Dublin,’’ the project’s website
(http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/dawn.php) explains; ‘‘DAWN aims not only to be a testbed for
the research undertaken at the NTRG, but also to serve as a prototype 4th Generation
Mobile Network.’’
47. Project archive of Doors East conference, Bangalore, India, December 2003, available
on the Doors East website at http://www.doorseast.com/projectexamples.html.
48. See the Soya Choupal website at http://www.soyachoupal.com/.
Notes to Pages 87–91 249
49. Project archive of Doors East conference, Bangalore, India, December 2003, available
on the Doors East website at http://www.doorseast.com/projectexamples.html.
50. ‘‘nLogue Communications Case Study,’’ available on the Digital Partners website
at http://www.digitalpartners.org/nlogue.html. See also the project archive of the
Doors East conference, Bangalore, India, December 2003, available on the Doors
East website at http://www.doorseast.com/projectexamples.html.
51. Pitroda told me about the PCO project during his participation in Doors of Perception
4: Speed in Amsterdam in November 1995. For a more recent article celebrating
the ways that Pitroda ‘‘helped in connecting the remotest corners of India to the
world, and paved the path for propagating IT to the masses,’’ see ‘‘Sam Pitroda: Lifetime
Achievement Award 2002,’’ Dataquest, December 27, 2002, available at http://
www.dqindia.com/content/top_stories/102122703.asp.