‘MSF adapting to worsening conditions in Gaza Strip’

January 6, 2009

I have always looked at MSF as the canary in the coal mine of humanitarian aid.  If they say it is getting bad then other folks should start lining up.  They don’t stray far from their mandate of providing medical aid in the world’s worst situations.  Gaza did not is not on their Top Ten […]

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Picasa for Mac is out!

January 5, 2009

I have been waiting for a long time for this one!  Download it here.  Here is the Picasa team’s write-up over at Google Photos Blog.  Here is the Techrunch review.  Thanks @steverubel. Tweet

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Lives of the Saints – International hardship duty in Chad.

January 4, 2009

The New Yorker has a lengthy article about aid workers in Chad.  @aidworkersntwk Twittered this a few hours ago.  I worked with Yvan in Chad in the early days of 2004.  Like others in my line of work I arrived alone at 3am with a backpack and a hotel reservation to set-up operations before our […]

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Gaza map comparison – Google Maps vs Microsoft Virtual Earth vs Open Street Map

January 4, 2009

While I am not running off to the field these days I still want to what is out there for us to use.  A simple comparison between Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Open Street Map: Google Maps is the clear winner.  However,  when you drill down the streets have limited detail and few street […]

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‘Al Jazeera Labs is Testing Ushahidi’

January 3, 2009

Peter over at The Road to the Horizon Tweeted earlier that Al Jazeera is using Ushahidi to track events in the Israel-Gaza conflict.  The Ushahidi blog has the details but here is an excerpt: It made sense that Al Jazeera’s new media team got in touch with us via Twitter – email and Skype came […]

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BBC – Strong earthquake rocks Indonesia

January 3, 2009

Tragically, the year is getting off to a busy start.  The BBC has the latest: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has rocked eastern Indonesia, seismologists say. The tremor struck south-west of Manokwari, West Papua province, at 0443 on Sunday (1943 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Residents ran outdoors and to higher ground, […]

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CNN – Israeli ground troops enter Gaza

January 3, 2009

CNN update on the situation in Gaza. JERUSALEM (CNN) — Israeli troops began moving into Gaza on Saturday night, intent on taking out Hamas rocket-launching sites, after a week of airstrikes into the Hamas-controlled territory, Israel Defense Forces said. “We have just a short while ago launched the second stage of the operation against Hamas […]

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CNN – ‘Gaza humanitarian plight ‘disastrous,’ U.N. official says’

December 28, 2008

CNN has an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza: Israeli airstrikes pounding Gaza are deepening the humanitarian crisis in an area that was already in deep distress, according to a United Nations aid official. “The situation is absolutely disastrous,” U.N. official Christopher Gunness told CNN on Sunday, as a second day of aerial attacks […]

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Film Nomad

December 26, 2008

Spent the evening helping my uncle getting his blog up and running.  Check out his Film Nomad blog. He has shot for National Geographic, Marlboro and Wells Fargo.  Here is a sample: Read on… Tweet

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ThurayaAssist and ThurayaRelay – Two new services for Thuraya users.

December 25, 2008

More positive developments for field folks.  From the Thuraya partner (Geonix) site: ThurayaRelay™ combines updated positioning services and the ThurayaLocate™ dynamics with a stream of new and useful features. Supports two levels of alerts: basic position reports and emergency SOS requests for immediate assistance Automatically relays SOS messages to multiple user defined e-mail addresses and […]

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