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Wireless group rooted in Concordia , by Jason Gondziola. In Concordia's Thursday Report of October 13 2005.

To wireless laptop users in Montreal, the name Île Sans Fil should by now be a household name – or at least an utterance heard in Montreal’s most tech-savvy circles.

The non-profit volunteer wireless group has made the leap from a small operation of obscure open source coders to a full-blown Montreal institution in only two years. With over 60 hotspots in the Montreal area, ISF will be signing up their 10,000th user later this month......

A list of some forthcoming, new, and older writings....

--amazing poster by the brilliant Matt Soar

International Media Democracy Day (IMMD) 2005.

In the Sunday NY Times Book Review (October 9) Robert Pinsky reviews Joan Didion's new book, The Year of Magical Thinking: "unsentimental, amused, impatient with cant, she has been a meticulous observer of social changes less in themselves than in their effects on her own sensibility."

A New York Magazine interview of October 9

The Black Album by John Leonard in The New York Review of Books.

Back from the AOIR Conference in Chicago. Fun to see so many old faces and new ones. barbarabrandirichardmichellekatrinatamara
mariacorinnastevelesliesuanandrewphilsoniacatherine
rhiannonmonica, among others....