{"id":365,"date":"2006-06-20T23:45:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=365"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T07:52:28","slug":"stop-begging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Stop Begging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I present FON twice a week on the average around the world.  In the last weeks it was Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Finland.  In Helsinki I ran into one of the best looking foneras, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Anina.net\">Anina<\/a> who picked up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/anina.typepad.com\/anina\/2006\/06\/from_beggar_to_.html\">beggar story<\/a> in her blog.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat happens to me is that I get bored with myself if I tell the FON story the same way in every place, so being in Finland I figured I could express myself with more freedom than in other countries. And it was there that my presentation centered around two themes:  Stop being a wanker and share your WiFi using FON&#8217;s social router and stop being rich at home and a WiFi beggar everywhere else, join Fon and travel with your WiFi signal.  It worked and we are getting many foneros in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I love Europe for presentations.  Somehow, for different reasons, in America and Asia I am concerned about offending people.  In America sex is offensive.  Yes they produce South Park and Family Guy but, somehow when I speak in America many times I have the feeling that I don\u00b4t run into the people who make those cartoons.  In Asia I simply don\u00b4t know very well what can be offensive, so I am much more careful with humor.  The biggest paradox was Korea.  The crowd was poker faced and I thought they were totally bored with FON.  And then they bought so many routers that they depleted our global supply!<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=365\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I present FON twice a week on the average around the world. In the last weeks it was Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Finland. In Helsinki I ran into one of the best looking foneras, Anina who picked up on my beggar story in her blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}