Metanomy^™ 

The recent release of the Golden Phoenix After Action has caused me to do a bit of reflection on web technology and all the recent hoopla over Gov 2.0 - Golden Phoenix (GP) is a grass roots collaborative training event that started in Los Angeles in 2006. It is not an Exercise. It is a bunch of people at the tactical level coming together to train for crisis response in the Southern California Region.

CAP is an XML standard that is used to send alert messages around between government agencies. There are a few sources of ATOM/CAP feeds out there from the Weather Service and USGS, so I have been experimenting with parsing these feeds with Drupal's FeedAPI. There is still much work to be done with handling some of the unique namespaces that show up in these feeds, but it is a start.

We have a demo site up at http://ic.metanomy.org

I recently had a conversation with a friend about using Twitter for more than just micro-blogging. Not that micro-blogging is not without merit, but I am looking to develop tech with a bit more social oomph than what I had for lunch. Veggie burrito by the way.

I thought this blog entry was interesting: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/

And then I started looking around at Twitter Vote Report (which came to my attention via a Twete no less - thanks @ilabra): http://twittervotereport.com/