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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Get your attention with that subtle headline?
Apologies in advance for “shouting.” It’s just because OUR LIVES MAY DEPEND ON WHAT I’M ABOUT TO SAY. Also apologies in advance for the snippy tone of some of this: I’m just fed up with official stupidity and myopia about the issues that I’ve devoted my life to for […]
Remote, self-powered sensor networks a win-win solution
Friday, May 9th, 2008Long-time readers may remember that I spotted the advent of self-powered, stand-alone remote monitoring devices five years ago and thought they could be great both for homeland security (remember that 85% of the nation’s critical infrastructure, especially energy, chemical, and rail facilities, is in private hands) and to help companies enjoy the often-overlooked economic benefits […]
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 […]
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 […]
Domestic One Laptop Per Child: get ‘em quick for disasters!
Monday, September 24th, 2007I’ve written a number of times in the past that Nick Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child — the nifty little laptop aimed at poor children in the developing world — could also be the ultimate tool for effective communication during a disaster because it has a self-power option, and has built-in mesh networking, so you […]
What National Journal said about my “21st-century tips”
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 […]
