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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008It’s no longer funny.
It’s no longer tolerable that McCain can be allowed to try to avoid the consequences of his hasty judgment.
The national interest demands that a person who can’t even name a single newspaper or magazine she reads regularly (and, as usual, talks 10th-grader-who-didn’t-do-her-homework ragtime instead of giving a straight answer) can be a […]
Please sign petition to require next bill be posted for 72 hours
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008If you believe that transparency is a critical component in rebuilding public confidence in government, and that there’s at least a glimmer of a chance that you or I might actually have valuable insights to craft a better economic recovery act, I urge you to sign the Sunlight Foundation’s online petition. It tells Congress:
“Seven […]
Show Us a Better Way ends on 30th & Google launches Project 10^100
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Looks as if those in authority are starting to take the “wisdom of crowds” seriously — including putting money on the table.
Google has just announced a Project 10^100, to solicit ideas that can have a dramatic impact on life. “These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple — but they need to […]
Urgent: demand real-time data feeds as part of bank bill
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008This is urgent, because of the scope and speed of the banking bailout legislation. I urge you to act on it asap.
I just blogged on the Huffington Post (a shorter version appeared here last week: I pulled it and submitted to Huffington because of its greater reach and clout) that there’s a methodology that […]
Thriving, modernized Taliban: indictment of Bush’s failed strategy
Saturday, September 20th, 2008The story in today’s WaPo about the Taliban’s resurgence and modernization is a damning indictment of Bush’s failed foreign policy, which diverted attention and resources from the just war in Afghanistan to pursue his fabricated crusade against Iraq. Now, our overextended and depleted resources don’t allow devoting adequate forces in Afghanistan, while we’ve effectively lost […]
Ike’s lessons: is alternative to single evacuation path no possible?
Friday, September 12th, 2008I’m just speculating on this, but it does seem to me — as I blogged during Rita (when there were considerably fewer GPS’s on the road) — that it ought to be at least technologically possible today to not order everyone in Houston to evacuate via I-10.
Instead, since we can precisely identify where a car […]
in D.C.? hope you’ll join us Tuesday for data syndication seminar!
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Hi. If you’re intrigued/perplexed/excited by what I’ve posted in the past about data syndication and visualization tools, I hope that you will be able to join us next Tuesday morning at the National Press Club for an informative and stimulating seminar on the topic of the strategic use of organizational data feeds such as RSS […]
Gustavfeed & Gustav Info Center: great examples of my tips in action!
Monday, September 1st, 2008There’s a great new Twitter feed today, Gustavfeed, done by social media strategist Joe Solomon,
It is sampling Twitter-related posts from sites including:
Utterz
Twitter
blip.tv
YouTube
Technorati
Vimeo
Hmm. Don’t see anything from Qik — are you monitoring them, Joe?
IMHO, if you are a first responder or if you’re directly affected and you need to get first-hand situational awareness, you […]
Another “21st-century disaster tip”: using Qik in an emergency
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008As you know by now, I luv Twitter’s ability to share location-based, real-time information in a disaster,
and geo-tagged Flickr photos also provided invaluable situational awareness in the San Diego wildfires last year.However, IMHO, there’s nothing like live, streaming video to provide a wealth of information about fast-changing disasters, so I just did this streaming video […]
Just in time for Fay: Wireless Foundation posts tips for wireless use in disasters
Monday, August 18th, 2008Just as Fay is reaching the Florida mainland, the Wireless Foundation has posted the series of tips that I created for them on smart use of wireless devices in emergencies!
The introduction to the tips says:
“The Wireless Foundation has compiled useful information to keep wireless customers prepared for emergencies, from an every-day crisis like a flat […]
