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Thursday, January 31st, 2008Yikes! I’ve been Twittering and sending e-mails about Google Research’s new Palimpsest service (which hasn’t been formally announced, but which Wired wrote about recently, citing sources within Google), but just realized I hadn’t blogged about it!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
IMHO, this could be the critical link in achieving the dream I discussed in my […]
Winter storm warning: keep ice in your cell phone!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008With yet another blizzard walloping the West, what better time for another “21st-century disaster tip you won’t hear from officials.”
No matter where you live or what the temperature, make sure your emergency supplies include always keeping ice in your cell phone.
Oops, I meant ICE, short for In Case of Emergency.
A British EMT came up with […]
More use of mobile social net apps predicted: implications for emergencies
Monday, January 28th, 2008According to Fierce Wireless (citing a Forrester report), mobile social network applications will become much more widespread in Europe this year. Given our perennial lag time in adopting anything cell-phone wise, this probably means such expanded use will probably happen in the US in several years.
If so, it will give a real boost to the […]
Look to 3rd World for tech innovation — and threat!
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008My personal epiphany about the 3rd World’s potential to leapfrog the Industrial Age (and, in so doing, to take a leadership in development of appropriate technology) came in the early ’90s when I saw a picture in Business Week of a villager in Sri Lanka making a call from a tethered cell phone that […]
Google.org funds emergency program that sounds very familiar…
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Tip o’ the hat to David Jara of Motorola for tipping me off about this!
News today that Google.org, Google’s charitable wing (”Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease”) will give grants totaling $5 million to fund Innovative […]
Follow Red Cross Twitter channel for storm news
Friday, January 4th, 2008Thanks to my pals at the American Red Cross who posted a link to this blog on their “Super Storm in the West” page!
For up-to-the minute information on the storm, check out the Red Cross’ Twitter channel (although I note that as of 5 PM EST, they haven’t posted anything yet…).
Technorati tags: FEMA crowd-sourcing […]
URGENT: with colossal storm hitting West, share my tips!
Friday, January 4th, 2008The storm that’s headed inland right now is of biblical proportions: the Weather Channel predicts “potentially historic snowfall, flooding rains, and wind gusts to well over 100 mph are possible.”
Considering the hits places such as Denver have already taken this winter, that’s incredibly scary — and time to remind people about how my “21st-century disaster […]
Beefed up chemical security could be a win-win
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008With 85% of the United States’ critical infrastructure in private hands, public-private collaboration to protect that infrastructure is critical, yet the chemical industry, utilities and others have not been particularly enthused about these new responsibilities.
Now there’s another imposed on them.
This week, chemical companies and chemical users must file their first reports under
Appendix A of the […]
Data visualization of latest bin Laden video: compare and contrast!
Monday, December 31st, 2007I’ve just done a new Many Eyes word cloud visualization of the translation by SITE of bin Laden’s 12/29/07 video.
I invite you to check both this one and the one I did of his September 20th video, “On Jihad,” and to compare and contrast the words that he uses most frequently.
One thing that jumped out […]
Bhutto / Google testimony on data accessibility
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I’m going to hold off on comment about the implications of Bhutto’s assassination for right now, other than to repeat that the Bush Administration has failed to pursue a systems approach to foreign policy.
We’ve got a looong history in this region of steps we’ve taken at one point (i.e. arming the mujahadin in a proxy […]
