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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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I’ll speak on data visualization at Netroots Nation
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008Thanks again to Micah Sifry! He’s added me to a panel he’ll be a member of at this year’s “Netroots Nation” (which evolved from Daily Kos‘ Yearly Kos conferences that have gotten such attention in the blogosphere and media in the past).
Once again, I’ll speak about data visualization, not only as a tool for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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