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		<title>Personal Telco helps out with HOPE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, we received an emailed plea from Phil Willis-Conger with the City of Portland Bureau of Housing and Community Development for help with setting up a network at an event they co-sponsored with the State of Oregon, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, among others, called the Home Ownership Preservation Event.  He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2009/05/07/personal-telco-helps-out-with-hope/</link>
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		<title>Talkin&#8217; Digital Divide Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, bridging the broadband divide seemed to be a big topic around here.
First, I appeared on the KBOO program The Digital Divide. They invited us on to address some questions about community reuse of the MetroFi equipment, which we expect will be forfeited to the city in April. I suggested that since the city [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2009/03/10/talkin-digital-divide-blues/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Clearwire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I share some of my thoughts on Clearwire&#8217;s presence in Portland, both as it relates to Portland and to Personal Telco. I stress that this is in no way a review of the service or a technical critique, as I&#8217;ve not used it extensively, nor do I have any in depth knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2009/01/08/thoughts-on-clearwire/</link>
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		<title>The Personal Telco Project needs YOU!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Personal Telco Project is a Portland-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that got started in the year 2000 as a way to empower people to build wireless networks that benefit their communities.  We have been working non-stop since then.
The Personal Telco Project is a volunteer-based organization that normally has very limited costs, and consequently as very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/12/28/the-personal-telco-project-needs-you/</link>
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		<title>Personal Telco gets some ink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Willamette Week gave us some space in their &#8220;How to Live Cheap in Portland&#8221; piece this week.  I think it does a good job on the &#8220;modelling good behavior&#8221; front and not being too much &#8220;these dudes will sprinkle the magic pixie dust on you (and give you free stuff)&#8221; that we sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/08/13/personal-telco-gets-some-ink/</link>
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		<title>Portland MetroFi and Coverage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We keep seeing reports of &#8220;Metrofi is roughly 30% complete in covering Portland,&#8221; but is that really the right number?  Even though numerous reports say you should deploy at least 35 nodes per square mile, MetroFi took the low-end number of 25.  While I&#8217;m not sure who came up with that number considering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/23/portland-metrofi-and-coverage/</link>
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		<title>Personal Telco on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is slightly old news, but for those looking for video footage of the group, we have a channel on YouTube now with most of our videos from the past 8 years.
Check us out.

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		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/19/personal-telco-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Comment on the 6/16 Oregonian Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the Oregonian interviewed me for an article about low and no-cost Internet options in Portland post MetroFi. I appreciate that Mike Rogoway and the Oregonian consider our voice relevant and important to this discussion. 
While I appreciate that in the aftermath of a large failure, such as MetroFi&#8217;s Portland network, there is a natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/06/16/comment-on-the-616-oregonian-article/</link>
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		<title>Hasson Company&#8217;s Reuse and Recycle Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
My post to general stripped out the attachment which contains all the information for this event. But Hasson Company is hosting a Computer Recycle Day tomorrow Saturday the 31st of May 2008. There are two locations for drop off Metro East and Metro West the event is from 10am to 2pm.

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		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/30/hasson-companys-reuse-and-recycle-day/</link>
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		<title>Nameserver outage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between Saturday evening, when a thunderstorm flickered the power and rebooted our primary nameserver, and about 5pm Sunday afternoon when we got the secondary fixed, we sort of dropped off the internet.  Name resolutions for personaltelco.net (.com and .org too, one presumes) stopped working.  This had some dire consequences for wifidog nodes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personaltelco.net/2008/05/25/nameserver-outage/</link>
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