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Open Mesh Networking
Open Mesh is not an offline network but a promising initiative to create independent, wireless, cross platform, ad-hoc networks which could help people to stay connected while governments shut down the Internetz (#egypt, #lybia etc …) Interesting article by Shervin Pishevar the founder of the OpenMesh Project on techcrunch http://www.openmeshproject.org/
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HAM radio
Telecomix is a perfect example of state of the art Internet crowd sourced (h)ackivist group mainly organized through IRC channels and such. They’ve done a great job during Internet shut down in Egypt. Tons of info and alternative OFFLINE communication tools like HAM radio! on werebuild.eu/wiki/Egypt/ See also Bre Pettis thoughts on HAM radio offline […]
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La Moustreet
Great exhibition concept by a french group of graphic designer and printers based in Toulouse. They planted 6 Dead Drops throughout the city featuring pieces of 25 artists on them. (Add your own work ;-) lamoustacherie.fr (Send me your Dead Drops spin off project / special idea, I ll blog it here!)
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“PirateBox”
More offline filesharing! wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox . Nice!! How to make your own! wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY Congrats David! (feel free to email me about offline sharing projects I ll blog them here)
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Go see yourself!
I think it s important that every Dead Drop is independent and unique. There is no need to have the same files in some or all Dead Drops. There are no rules on what files can be on a Dead Drop. And we shouldn’t t have lists or directories online what to find offline on […]
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“deadSwap”
There are all kinds of offline filesharing possibilities. I learn about more of them every day now :-) Check out deadSwap. Thx Dmytri! deadSwap: A Game Of Cloak And Data deadSwap is an offline file sharing system where participants covertly pass a USB stick from one to another. The route of the USB memory stick […]
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USB pavement stone in Paderborn!
Jochen (thx!) pointed me out that the university campus Padderborn (Germany) has a pavement stone with integrated hard drive since a while already. The stone has a USB logo on it and some sort of cap protecting the USB port. Wow nice Dead Drop! Check out the full post here.