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Monday, June 2nd, 2008I’ll try to summarize stuff after I get back from the Government Leadership Summit. Major emphasis throughout on emergent behavior, “wisdom of crowds.”
Suffice it to say that I think Vivek Kundra, the District of Columbia’s CTO, is a rock star!
Gotta go: my panel, on Intellipedia, is up next!
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yipee! I’m speaking at Personal Democracy Forum 2008!
Monday, May 19th, 2008I have officially died and gone to heaven!
Just got off the phone with Micah Sifrey, of TechPresident and Personal Democracy Forum fame.
He’s invited me to speak at Personal Democracy Forum 2008 on data visualization as a means to empower the public in government (especially its potential for sousveillance to hold government agencies accountable and […]
Those quakes aren’t just shakin’ earth, but also communications
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Hi. Breaking long radio silence (it’s because I’m working on a longer piece about neat research at U of Colo. by Leysia Palen that substantiates my “networked homeland security” approach, and on a white paper for Don Tapscott’s Gov. 2.0 project on my data visualization obsession..) because two recent earthquakes have driven home how […]
Another example of texting’s life-saving potential
Thursday, May 1st, 2008The latest example of texting’s potential in emergencies is this news item about a teen who was home because of illness when two intruders entered her house. She texted her mom, who then alerted 911 and drove home (not too smart on mom’s part to physically challenge the perps instead of waiting for cops, but […]
Small is beautiful: Twitter your way out of foreign jail!
Saturday, April 26th, 2008This blog has certainly suffered since I began my infatuation with the lil’ microblogging phenom, Twitter (hmm, maybe I should use ManyEyes to graph the inverse relationship between the number of recent “tweets” to recent blog posts…).
It’s at least partially because I like to really put some serious effort into each post on this […]
Check John Solomon’s new preparedness blog
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Aside 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 […]
Boston held a “planned disaster” Monday
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Amidst all the historical reenactments, Sox game (lookin’ good, boys!), and Boston Marathon, authorities also scheduled a major disaster drill in the Hub of the Universe Monday.Whoa! Was that a case of bad planning, or what? With hundred of thousands of people already milling about, weren’t the officials, as it were, looking for a disaster?
Nope.
As […]
Chertoff cyber-security plan: who will fill the post?
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008In general, I’m in support of Sec. Chertoff’s new cyber-security plan: let’s not forget that cyber-threats can be of all stripes (terrorists, organized crime, state-sponsored groups, or individual hackers), that 85% of our critical infrastructure is in private hands (hence his call for coordination with the private sector, and that the threats range from the […]
FCC & cellphone carriers get it! Targeted wireless alerts!
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008USA Today reports that the FCC may approve, as early as today, the technical standards for a nationwide system that would send text messages to cellphones and other wireless devices whenever there’s an emergency. The system could be operational by 2010, and could be used for terrorism, weather, or child abduction alerts.
That’s great: finally […]
This could really be neat: Echo MyPlace for sharing
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Since my twin mantras for emergency information are:
real-time sharing among the public
and location-based information
… Echo My Place could really be an important development for real-time sharing of info in emergencies!
The Carbon Project, a MA firm, is working on a new P2P application, Echo MyPlace, that “lets you share location-based information about your neighborhood and […]
