{"id":759,"date":"2007-04-30T23:11:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=759"},"modified":"2007-04-30T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:11:55","slug":"jason-fryas-editorial-on-public-wifi-in-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Jason Fry\u00b4s editorial on public WiFi in the WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Jason Fry\u00b4s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB117743976135380805-ugbIv6vrdRus6E48TgO_xaeIWnk_20080429.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top\">editorial<\/a> in public WiFi with great interest and mostly agreed with it, except for Dana Spiegel who in typical American fashion takes adversarial views on things she likes just because she sees the world as a collection of opposites instead of as collaborative work.    Fortunately Jason Fry takes a view that I share.   Ultimately all of us together in the WiFi world  will win and that includes Time Warner Cable and Fon of course, plus NYC Wireless, plus muni WiFi.  We all share a vision: What we all want is to open our gagdets and play \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=759\" 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 read Jason Fry\u00b4s editorial in public WiFi with great interest and mostly agreed with it, except for Dana Spiegel who in typical American fashion takes adversarial views on things she likes just because she sees the world as a collection of opposites instead of as collaborative work. 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