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Zero Geography reports on a real-time game using GPS devices which has - for our purposes, interesting applications for coordinating SAR or other response efforts. From Zero Geography: GPS Real-World Gaming in Hybrid Space.
A real-time, multiplayer, GPS game for mobiles is being played out in the real-world. The game, [...]
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Monica Hesse at the Washington Post reports that a team from MIT has won a DARPA prize for solving a distributed problem with a team/network that was partly ad hoc. TheDARPA Network Challengerequired teams to locate 10 weather balloons located around the country. From Hesse's article, "Spy vs. spy on Facebook:"
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For those unfamiliar with Manhattan geography, Manhattan is much longer on its roughly North-South axis than it is on its East-West axis, although the island is narrower at its southern edge. (And it turns out to be harder to quickly locate a map showing the entire island than one would think). The [...]
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of the Creative Synthesis Collaborative posted this on June 2nd: Massachusetts-based Voltree Power is currently developing a network of sensor nodes that will monitor forest conditions and immediately alert users to wildfires. The system, the Early Wildfire Alert Network (EWAN), resembles other efforts to create decentralized monitoring networks. The network tracks humidity, air temperature, and [...]
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How to Break a Network -about the work ofLieutenant Colonel John Grahamstudying insurgent (and other networks),was published by David Axe in 2007 - it's no less relevant now:... this morning during presentations at the Association of the U.S. Army show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I was jolted out of a depressed stupor when an Army officer [...]
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Another reminder of how effective government can be once it's decided to be vigilant:A construction crew working on an office building in Virginia in 2000 severed a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Apparently it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data, according to sources who spoke recently with the [...]
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Excerpted from "Social Networks ," by Nicholas Christakis on The Situationist Blog, which is a blog maintained by The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School. The excerpt is long, but well worth reading. Let me first posit this question - why do some communities develop disaster-resilient networks and organizations - and others [...]
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Distributed Social Networking has immense potential as a disaster preparedness tool. Particularly so if wireless mesh networks are part of our emergency communications systems - and if we assume that any likely emergency system in the United States will be, in most places, community-based rather than government-based. (There are, no question, some state and local [...]
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Just read a remarkable piece on Network Weaving about hub-and-spoke networks. From Connected Customers:[The author, Valdis Krebs, had discussed attending a professional conference at a hotel]. The only negative with the event was the conference hotel's awful WiFi service -- and their response to it.Hotels are used to dealing with disconnected customers -- hotel guests who [...]
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Stimulating Broadband