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Check John Solomon’s new preparedness blog
By WDavidStephenson | April 24, 2008
Aside from his deplorable choice of baseball teams to follow (BTW, shouldn’t the “Yankees” be the “Nieuwe Amsterdams” or the “Pieter Minuet Culturally-Insensitive Thieves Who Stole Manhattan” and Yankees should be the name of our local, New England-based lads?), John Solom0n is a great guy:
- an esteemed pundit since the age of 13
- an outstanding reporter
- and is now writing a book, “In Case of Emergency, Read Book: Simple Steps To Prepare You and Your Family For Terrorism, Natural Disasters and Other 21st Century Crises,” on personal preparedness.
John takes this assignment seriously: his research has included becoming a member of his neighborhood CERT team. Now, he’s also added a blog to the process, because:
“It would be a great way to augment my research, disseminate some of my initial findings and allow me to be able to react to news and events regarding emergency preparedness. Like the book, the blog, which I am calling In Case of Emergency, Read Blog, will help collect, highlight and organize information about preparedness from the civilian’s point of view. It will highlight model individuals, communities, organizations, schools and businesses. It will also offer guidance on ways that citizens can get involved themselves.
The blog will be a major part of the research for the book, and the book research will augment the content of the blog.”
Please check out In Case of Emergency: in addition to saying some nice things about yours truly (this fan letter is not a quid pro quo) John has lots of good practical information that you should know to really be prepared for a disaster or terror attack. I love our conversations, and trust the blog will be as informative!
Welcome to the gang, John.
BTW, John mentioned to me that WNYC, where he hangs his hat part-time, is doing some very interesting crowdsourcing exercises to involve listeners in the production and news gathering process!
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