Wireless blogging from SXSW
I never heard of the SXSW (South by Southwest) conferences which deal with film, music and interactive stuff. SXSW 2002 is going on now in Austin and I was alerted by Dave Winer's Weblog today that several people at the conference are using WiFi to update their Weblogs. Apparently, at least one person, Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and boingboing blogger, plugged in an extra WiFi access point and attendees can get onto the Internet.
This indeed shows the power of WiFi. You don't need to build a cellular network or roll in a relatively expensive portable cell site or pay per minute or per packet. You just find an Internet connection, plug in a computer with an access point and you've got wireless connectivity. (Yes, obviously, someone has to pay for the Internet connection.) In addition to Cory, the WiFi bloggers appear to be Doc Searls and Dori Smith of the Backup Brain (I love that name!) Weblog.
Another one: Wesley Felter of the Hack the Planet Weblog also is using the homegrown WiFi solution to blog SXSW to say how boring the presentations are.
Conference speakers beware! WiFi (and 2.5G cellular if the pricing and speeds are good enough) will be your undoing if you're boring and the audience turns to the Web and ignores you. It's already happening, as you see.
3:14:05 PM 
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