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The aftermath of both major Asian natural disasters – the earthquake in China and the Burmese cyclone — has displayed the web’s ability to be an source and aggregator of multi-media information in the wake of disaster situations.
This phenomenon is being well covered by Global Voices, a non-profit citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
This post combines post-earthquake video mashups [...]

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The aftermath of the major earthquake that struck central China has underscored the importance and potential of personal technology in helping the public deal with major disasters. 
As this posting from Matthew Ingram’s 2.0 blog in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper explains, Twitter broke the news of the earthquake and its ‘coverage’ has filled a news niche.
Like many others, I woke up this morning [...]

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I recently viewed a new emergency preparedness video produced by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) for the public called “A New Era of Preparedness”. I think it is one of the better productions on this topic for citizens that I have seen. It can be viewed on the CDC website at emergency.cdc.gov/video/newera.asp.

I liked it [...]

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David Stephenson of the StephensonStrategies blog just posted a very kind and generous welcome to the blogsphere for this fledgling operation. Thank you very much, David.

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

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Whenever there is a fire in Los Angeles, I am immediately informed. In fact, whenever the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) responds to a major incident —  a traffic accident, helicopter rescue, a mudslide or whatever – I receive notification. So why does LAFD alert a civilian who is 2500 miles away in the middle of New York City? Because I asked.
The LAFD is one of [...]

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As I build my blog, I will be adding other blogs and websites that I believe can be helpful to people as they prepare and inform themselves.  
The first blog I’m highlighting is Stephensonstrategies.com. It is written by Boston-area consultant David Stephenson. One of his major focuses is technology and homeland security which he has dubbed Homeland Security 2.0.
I find David’s blog really fascinating, [...]

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In recent months, federal government agencies involved in emergency preparedness have launched blogs. I have included three of them in my Resources section.
Transportation Security Administration’s The Evolution of Security Blog 
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt’s Blog
http://www.secretarysblog.hhs.gov/
Department of Homeland Security’s Leadership Journal Blog               www.dhs.gov/journal/leadership As someone who just launched a blog this week and is still learning Blogging 101, it would [...]

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