Author: DXO
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IPRA Award for Customer Service
Award, originally uploaded by juggernautco. So on Wednesday I got an award from SWSRA, the Southwest Special recreation Association, for community service. I’ve done their website for a couple years now. Extremely nice people doing great things.
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The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
Milt Rosenberg has Stephen Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation on his show tonight. From Booklist Homeland Security expert Flynn examines the vulnerability of the U.S. to disaster–natural and man-made–and what the nation must do to fortify its security. By exploring several well-documented and frightening scenarios, Flynn exposes our weaknesses…
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ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement): Sounds Good to Me.
The Department of Homeland Security’s ADVISE program is under scrutiny: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff denies his agency wants to engage in data mining. If this is true, my question would be, “why not”? Here’s some info on ADVISE from SourceWatch: “At ADVISE’s core, semantic graphs are used to organize the data entities and their…
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"Sugar" Interface for One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child initiative is fantastic. The kind of thing that can change everything. Mesh network, crank power, no-glare screen for outdoors. The kind of machine that can provide a ton of use in a no-electricity, post-disaster environment. Pentagram has a look at the new user interface for the device— called “Sugar”: Lisa…
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CTA Alerts
CTA alerts is a rider-to-rider wireless notification utility that allows riders and Chicago Transit Authority officials to communicate status during service outages. I set up the service in August 2005. It has never gone down. I’d say that less than 3% of the posts are bogus or of the “hey what’s up ya’ll?” nature. Here…