Lamo's Way or How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the System

Overview

A correlation of data and practices into a cheap way of living without alienating oneself from society, friends, and family. Inspired by Adrian Lamo.

Status

Researching

Outline

• Mapping public resources:
  • Open wifi
  • Food
    • Free
    • Cheap
      • Price per item
  • Public restrooms
  • Available electric power
  • Campgrounds and rescue missions
• Correlating all the data mentioned above with time of availability
• Providing finished data set and maps to the public for use in times of need.
  • Doubles as an excellent resource for those wishing to lead a nomadic lifestyle.
  • Could easily be expanded to cover multiple cities around the country.

Ideas

• Make it in the form of a website where a user can input a time frame(start date+time-->end date+time) and it will pop out a map showing possible routes organized chronologically.
  • Perhaps even have a minimal stop time the user can set per location so as to avoid people being suspicious of lingering vagrants.
• Data should also be available to the user on a per type basis.
  • For instance, those looking for only free WiFi or those only looking for cheap food.

Notes

• Found this The Bath Room Diaries, I also made a post on my blog about wanting to rate public restrooms. Might be something nice to integrate into this. --JimShoe 04:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
• DabbleDB looks like it might be just the thing to get this project off the ground and start getting content. --strages 21:38, 8 May 2008 (CDT)
• It's been proposed to a couple of people in group to live a mobile life for one month.
  • Participant use the site, when it's up and running, to input data.
  • Participant will make one blog post a day.
  • Participant will use Twitter throughout the day.