The idea that a personalized “terrorism alert portal” built upon the lessons of eBay and Amazon is quaint.
But the real problem with these terrorist warnings is the lack of any concrete information. Designed a good UI to present vague and hazy data doesn’t really help things much.
The idea of letting people use wireless devices to report information is also somewhat simplistic. Obtaining data isn’t the problem. It’s determining the quality of the data that’s the tough problem.
They’re both tough problems (gathering and sifting) and a reasonable Homeland Security site could help with both. The current one does neither. It is an embarrassing PR job.
Continuing the saga of why terrorism may be good for IT folks, was pondering several questions on combating terrorism in which I haven’t figured out the right answer to and figured others may express their own two cents on the…
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The idea that a personalized “terrorism alert portal” built upon the lessons of eBay and Amazon is quaint.
But the real problem with these terrorist warnings is the lack of any concrete information. Designed a good UI to present vague and hazy data doesn’t really help things much.
The idea of letting people use wireless devices to report information is also somewhat simplistic. Obtaining data isn’t the problem. It’s determining the quality of the data that’s the tough problem.
They’re both tough problems (gathering and sifting) and a reasonable Homeland Security site could help with both. The current one does neither. It is an embarrassing PR job.
Additional Thoughts on Terrorism
Continuing the saga of why terrorism may be good for IT folks, was pondering several questions on combating terrorism in which I haven’t figured out the right answer to and figured others may express their own two cents on the…
What is an op-ed ???
It’s an Americanism for a column that runs on the page opposite a newspaper’s editorials. Op-eds are written by guests, not by the regular columnists.