Archive for August, 2007
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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 […]
Possible terror clusters in NE prove 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 […]
PV-powered mesh repeater and OLPC laptop? ultimate disaster tool!
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I hadn’t realized until today that there’s a blog dedicated to news of Nick Negroponte’s great One Laptop Per Child project.
Better yet, there was a post by free community wireless builder Aaron Kaplan about his recent visit to the OLPC offices, where he noticed this Ãber-cool PV-powered 802.11 repeater (note the requisite OLPC lime green […]
Schmaps: another dual-use crowdsourcing app for disasters
Monday, August 13th, 2007Must admit that I’m not quite the intrepid adventurer of my youth, which is why I guess I hadn’t heard about the interactive web-based maps from Schmap.
Quite kewl, I’d say:
integrates maps and guide content dynamically, which results in real-time access to reviews and accompanying photo slideshows
desktop version (for Windoz only until later this month […]
