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What I said about transparency on Federal News Radio

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

In case you weren’t able to tune in, this is what I said yesterday on Federal News Radio about transparency and the potential benefits to the Obama Administration.
IMHO, the critical thing is to not view transparency as an add-on program that people might fear would increase costs at a time of record deficits, but as […]

Please sign petition to require next bill be posted for 72 hours

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

If 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, 2008

Looks 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, 2008

This 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 […]

Ike’s lessons: is alternative to single evacuation path no possible?

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I’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 […]

With Hanna & Ike coming, my emergency use of Qik tip is on YouTube

Friday, September 5th, 2008

With Hanna & Ike now barreling down on us, I’ve just posted the newest of my “21st-century disaster tips you WON’T hear from officials” videos on YouTube.

This one deals with using Qik to stream “situational awareness” to your neighbors and — if they’re clued in — local police and fire officials.As I say, as of […]

in D.C.? hope you’ll join us Tuesday for data syndication seminar!

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Hi. 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, 2008

There’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 […]

(un) Ready.gov: they still don’t get it

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

PARDON ME FOR SHOUTING, BUT I’VE BEEN ON (UN) READY.GOV’S CASE SINCE THEY WERE CREATED ABOUT THEIR FAILURE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CREATIVE USE OF CELL PHONES AND OTHER MOBILE, PERSONAL, NETWORKED COMMUNICATION DEVICES PLUS WEB 2.0 APPS — ESPECIALLY ONES SUCH AS TWITTER THAT FACILITATE MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS.
HOWEVER, I JUST CHECKED THEIR HURRICANE PAGE, […]

Gustav: my emergency tips can save lives

Friday, August 29th, 2008

BTW: Since today is the 3rd anniversary of Katrina, and the Bush Administration totally dropped the ball not only during Katrina but also afterwards, I hope you’ll follow the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee’s lead, take the Hurricane Katrina Third Anniversary Quiz to test how much you know about what happened (and hasn’t!) and, Ask your U.S. […]

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