2 posts and columns on disasters

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Mapping the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

in News on May 6, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

The use of technology to publicly track the effects of disasters is becoming increasingly common–and it’s getting noticed again with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

TRRIST ATTCK! DUK 4 COVR!

in News on April 10, 2008 at 4:30 am PT

Well, it’s about time. With 48 billion text messages sent every month in the United States and one of every eight American households using only mobile phones for communications, it’s finally occurred to the federal government that a nationwide cellphone alert system might be a good idea. And so yesterday the Federal Communications Commission announced [...]