PersonalTelco, with NigelBallard's mug shot, made the cover of the WillametteWeek, PortlandOregon's second largest news paper (and largest alternative news paper). The WillametteWeek was the only large paper in Portland that hadn't written about PersonalTelco, and to make it to the cover is a big deal. I spoke to ZachDundas, the reporter, for a bit over email and he is quite a nice guy. Thanks to him and Nigel for the wonderful article, and thanks to the rest of the PTP crew for keeping the faith.

"The idea of building a community-run network, and being able to say to the telecom companies, 'Ha! See! We don't need you!,' seemed like an incredibly fun goal," says Adam Shand, the New Zealander who started Personal Telco in November 2000, while he was working for a doomed Beaverton dot-com. "It seemed totally feasible that anyone who wanted to be online could be."