Nelson Jacobsen

So I'm reading the story about the Uber driver kidnapping in DC and noticed the part about how DC MPD couldn't respond because there was no emergency communications.  Having been involved in DC Emergency Preparedness since 9/11 up until I questioned the handling of Pete Piringer by the Mayor back in 2011-- I know as much as any person in DC about the hows and why our Emergency Operation Plan "EOP" is supposed to unfold.   Part and parcel to this plan is that our equipment works and that departments respond, and I have to say that under no uncertain terms the District of Columbia cannot handle day to day operations there is no way in the world we could deal with any medium to large scale disaster.  BTW this is not the first time that this happened back in   2010 on a Monday nite DC lost this same capability for over 3 hours.  The solution to have analog radios...

Music Capitalist: The report of digital and physical demise of music... : Recently Forbes weighed into the conversation about the state of our business publishing a story from Zack O'Malley Greenburg  &...

So I have been biting/holding my tongue about the upcoming National Day of Civic Hacking (Hack for Change.org) which is this Saturday May 31th - Sunday June 1st. and really can't for the good of good hackathons.  Namely because of articles I'm reading on NPR that are incorrectly stating that a hackathon is happening in DC. Since clearly nothing is happening -just click on the image above and see for yourself.      "Washington, D.C. is doing a transparency camp where hundreds of people will gather to share knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make the government work more effectively for the people."  Some might be asking why I'm so beefed up about all of this and I believe I have a good answer. For the second year in a row, the hackathon that started many of these RHoKDC is not happening-- last years was canceled and this year I was asked not to do one by the organizers of this event.    The cr...

Here's a poem I just wrote - 'Maya Angelou' by Nelson Jacobsen: http://t.co/QWznqeCPKb — Nelson Jacobsen (@sonofnels) May 28, 2014 RIP Maya Angelou

So I've seen this headline on more than a few of my friends social media time lines and I wanted to point out that there is a direct correlation between Space Weather and what happens here on Earth. While this Coronal Mass Emission CME may have missed Earth directly there were still several very severe events on leading upto and on this day impacting earth. I've found a great site that has for each day what is happening on Earth with regards to disasters and I pretty sure when you take Space Weather related events and match them to Earth related disasters there will be a large spike in correspondence between them. Here is a couple of the reported disaster reported event for July 23, 2012 Flooding in Beijing (Heaviest rainstorm in six decades) Wildfire in Spain  Earthquakes 4.8 Uzbekistan 5.2 Papua More flooding: India, New Zealand, Las Vegas Tropical Cyclones Vicente Hong Kong with Typhoon warning raised to 8 out of 10 Tornado Smeaton Canada.  To name a few o...

Funny thing --a past and what it means to your future.  I know mine was impacted that fateful day my parents dropped me off at Hamilton Park Elementary School.   Just a few month earlier something new called a Magnet school opened and certain type of parent overdrive must have kicked in because before I knew it,  me and a couple of my friends are heading to a place called Hamilton Park. Hamilton Park Pacesetter  Magnet  opened in 1975, with Bobcats setting the pace as successful academic and social role models; the school made national news and was toured, studied and emulated by other districts in the nation. Link   Since my mother had been a volunteer leader in South Oak Cliff, Dallas the prospect of attending Hamilton Park wasn't that daunting and or it's the fact that I have the gene that say sure jumping off the roof, waterfall, or business cliff is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  So I was able to jump in and become par...

Ward Three DC: Let's talk Internet infrastructure in DC since it ... : Recently I saw something about our Internet speeds  vs cost on (DCist.com) in the District of Columbia and then I click over to another...