Okay, okay. so maybe you weren’t so impressed with my ACS Offices Google map. For a more thoroughly developed demonstration of the potential, see this map for Pakistan earthquake relief. Again, you can go to the Communitywalk website and look at some of the experiments others have tried or register and start your own.

All the buzz these days is about Web 2.0. The term applies to the idea of an internet built for much greater user participation in what is on the web. It also applies evidently to a lot of hype around the Bay Area from people who miss the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s and want another shot at it. ...

If you want to try out a site that falls within the domain now loosely defined as Web 2.0, I recommend Netvibes.com. It’s 2.0-ish because, as a user, you have control of how you design your personal page and because its built around RSS feeds rather than URLs. You can easily create little boxes for sites with RSS feeds you ...

I see that Stowe Boyd at Get Real and I seem to be having similar thoughts about the need to think about dealing with disaster. Businesses and organizations need to have their own disaster preparedness. Time and resources need to be devoted to the question: If the worst happens, how will we continue to operate? That goes for hurricanes, earthquakes ...