We are pleased to announce the release of CrisisWire.com. CrisisWire is a self-aggregating website that pulls information on any disaster around the US and displays it on one page. It gets information into the hands of the people that need it most. During a disaster people spend valuable time searching the internet and waiting for [...]

Shared bookmarks from nateritter Tiny Geo-coder | The fastest way to find latitude and longitude — GeoNames Web Services — Lots of web services for geo-stuff in XML, JSON, RDF, TXT, RSS, KML, 4×4, CDROM, ABCBVD, F2F, BRB, ROFL, and other acronyms for TBD. Address book inviter + Social network inviter — Object oriented and works with more email [...]

Warning: This post contains strong and/or offensive geek language. With all the location based services that are out there like BrightKite and FireEagle you’d think geo-coding would be easy. Woah. Wait a second. What’s geo-coding you ask? Geo-coding is where you convert a normal location name, like “San Francisco, CA”, in to a latitude longitude pair, [...]

This past week I’ve been complete ass to 2 different groups. I’ve single-handedly marginalized two different groups of people. One publicly, one privately. You would have thought that I would have learned my lesson a long time ago on how to do be an ass. Apparently, I’m a slow learner. Apparently I [...]

This morning I woke up to my email barrage and found another person/company/robot sending me their press release.  They think that I’ll write about their company because I received a press release from them. Now, I don’t have 20,000 people hanging on every word that comes out of my digital (or analog) mouth.  But, I still [...]

Hi everyone, Please listen for a second.  I’ll try to keep this short, but if you don’t want to read anymore, please do me this one favor. Click this link, register, and vote for our team and our idea: http://ideablob.com/ideas/3344-Disaster-Emergency-Info-Now- Now, for those of you who are a little hesitant, here’s why I want you to click, register and [...]

I wrote before about the power of the project and what it means to be able to spend time where we think it’s important. You might have guessed that article was a precursor - that I was hinting at something bigger and more specific. You were right. The point is there’s a tribe [...]

The past few years many of us have gotten used to seeing new companies pop up from nowhere. Companies require regulations, organizational charts, business plans, and revenue models. Companies are supposed to show stability by incorporating and having charters. My world has changed, though. I don’t live in a world where a company is stable.  Neither [...]

So, I admit that yes, I have quite a few followers on Twitter.  I’m no Chris Brogan though.  But, I’ve been in a new-music slump these days and wanted to test the power of social media. No, I take that back.  I’m just lazy.  I know that social media is powerful. When I went to sleep last [...]

A few months ago I used Time Warner / Road Runner as my ISP here in San Diego and one day I typed in a web address that didn’t exist. Normally, the internet and my browser work well together by simply giving me some kind of error page. On that fatal day, instead, [...]