Archive for August, 2007
« Previous EntriesKatrina: what could we do with $456,278,478,000?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Too depressed over this anniversary to write much. I can’t get accurate numbers for what has been spent and will be spent eventually to rebuild the Gulf Coast, but as of an hour or so ago, the National Priorities Project estimated we’ve spent $456,278,478,000 in Iraq (it’s hard to get an accurate estimate because the […]
National Information Exchange Model — worth the wait!
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007More than 5 years after I suggested that the single most important win-win step the US could take to simultaneously improve security was to lead a global initiative to implement XML (because it would not only improve information exchange between terrorism and other criminal justice data bases, but also foster global economic development), it looks […]
My appearance on Fed. News Radio about “disruptive tech”
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Last Friday I had a great time, taping this show for Federal News Radio, with one of my favorite progressive thinkers about Web 2.0’s application to government, Federal Computer Week Editor Chris Dorobek (don’t miss his blog).
The show focused on the impact of disruptive technologies in general on government (a preview of FCW’s Sept. 3rd […]
What National Journal said about my “21st-century tips”
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007IMHO, National Journal Technology Daily’ s Aliya Sternstein does some of the best reporting on e-gov transformation. Unfortunately, there’s a steep price (nearly $2,000 a year for the package of Journal publications and services, which are aimed primarily at K Street people and other Capitol Hill insiders — worth every penny, IMHO) for that quality, […]
New feature: YouTube versions of my disaster tips!
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007You may notice something different about this page today: that guy in the YouTube video in the sidebar is none other than your genial host!
Here’s why…
I got a lot of favorable response a year ago when I created a series of “10 21st-century disaster tips you won’t hear from officials” (more about that “you won’t […]
Jim Rapoza does Homeland Security 2.0 podcast with me
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Wow — eWeek Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza don’t waste no stinkin’ time: he interviewed me late yesterday afternoon for his Emerging Technology podcast series, and it was available for download within a few hours (pardon the nasal voice on my end of the conversation: I’m fighting the latter stages of a summer cold).
The topic […]
Spy satellites for domestic surveillance: issue should unite right and left
Monday, August 20th, 2007I was too verklempt to blog last week about the outrageous news that the Bush Administration has approved increased domestic use of spy satellite images for surveillance.However, IMHO, this far surpasses any of the violations of privacy rights this gang has been guilty of to date, and is absolutely unconscionable and untenable, particularly insofar as […]
Here’s my NECN interview on NYC terror clusters
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Here’s my interview with New England Cable News about the NYPD report about terror clusters in the Northeast (the link is “NYPD warns of homegrown terrorists.”
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Possible terror clusters in NE proves my argument
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I just got back from doing an interview with New England Cable News that will air later today as part of a piece on reaction to the story Brian Ross broke today on Good Morning America that more than two dozen “clusters” of young Muslim men in the Northeast are under surveillance because they may […]
et al.: big business steals vision for cheap, dangerous toys
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Long before toy magnate Irwin Mainway began pushing the “Bag-o-Glass” toy (why didn’t I think of that?) and long before mainstream toy companies began their race to the bottom by making lead-painted toys in China, one of my roommates at America’s Finest Liberal Arts College mesmerized us with his bold vision to build a factory […]
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