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« Previous EntriesMy FCW op-ed harping again on empowering public in disasters
Sunday, July 10th, 2011Federal Computer Week has published an op-ed by me in which I once again get on DHS’s case for not making the public full partners in disaster and terrorism preparation and response because of the situational awareness that the combination of mobile devices (especially real-time smartphone video) and social media can present.
Yes, it’s nice that […]
Networked homeland security as model for piracy issue
Monday, April 13th, 2009Unaccustomed as I’ve become to blogging, I thought this was important enough to do a post…
Watching the coverage of the Maersk Alabama piracy incident, it seemed to me that conventional responses are ineffective because of the extreme asymmetrical aspect of the situation and because conventional treaty-based mutual defense approaches aren’t relevant on the high seas.
I […]
FEMA once again blew it in Texas. Try Web 2.0-based process..
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008AP reports that there’s still a 30-mile long “scar of debris” along the Texas coast that “..stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA’s sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.”
According to state and local officials, it’s FEMA red tape that’s holding things up.
That reminds me of an […]
Spy makes it easy for authorities to monitor social media in disasters
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Spy is yet another app in the ever-expanding ecosystem spawned by Twitter (and to think that critics such as I used to pooh-pooh 140-character messages as of little importance… mea culpa, mea maxima culpa), and it makes it possible for authorities in crises such as the Mumbai attacks to monitor social media including Twitter, FriendFeed, […]
US officials must monitor, learn from use of Web 2.0 in Mumbai
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008Once again, the first news of the Mumbai attacks came not through the media, but through Twitter. India is extremely sophisticated in use of mobile devices, probably more so than is the case in the US, and many Indians are active users of Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and other mobile social networks. It’s imperative that […]
VITAL: IF BIN LADEN PLANS “THE BIG ONE” YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON THIS!
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 […]
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 […]
With Hanna & Ike coming, my emergency use of Qik tip is on YouTube
Friday, September 5th, 2008With 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 […]
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 […]
(un) Ready.gov: they still don’t get it
Sunday, August 31st, 2008PARDON 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, […]
