Disaster relief efforts turn to wireless in New Orleans.

Perhaps emergency preparedness efforts will begin to understand the saftey net effect of the network.  While this effort is encouraging, a lot more has to happen before the government opens up these WiMax spectrums for public use.

Link: St. Petersburg Times Online.

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This blog documents my research on the growing importance of location, place and space in networked social media. I'm an assistant professor of new media at Emerson College in Boston. Colin Rhinesmith, a graduate student at Emerson, is a major contributor to this blog.
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