The suggestion that texting is superior in emergencies because it takes less bandwidth is fairly old. I recall it after 9/11. The problem, not mentioned in the article, is that the short code system for mutli-point texting (one entity, such as local police, texting to multiple individuals simultaneously) is badly broken. It's like DNS when we started to scale up dramatically in the early 1990s.
Link Harvest: Texting In Emergencies
The suggestion that texting is superior in emergencies because it takes less bandwidth is fairly old. I recall it after 9/11. The problem, not mentioned in the article, is that the short code system for mutli-point texting (one entity, such as local police, texting to multiple individuals simultaneously) is badly broken. It's like DNS when we started to scale up dramatically in the early 1990s.
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Link Harvest: Middle Class Question and Answer
I forget how I stumbled on this old piece, but it is remarkable for the way it frames its question and how it answers the question.…
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Links re: Pai + FCC
http://prospect.org/article/decoding-doublespeak-fcc-chairman-pai…
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How My Brain Works, An Example
Here is an example of how my brain processes differently from most other people and why my status updates and posts usually need to end up so long.…
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