Excerpt from:  Into the MyST
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December 04, 2003

Emergency Notification Services

I was skiing today and it occured to me...

We don't think enough about the possibilities of a wired society. Take for example the lift line at a ski resort. Typically, a chalk board (now whiteboards seem to be in vogue) is used to notify friends and relatives of an injured member of their group to contact a Ski Patrol worker. That reminds me - I need another glucosamine dose.

I wonder how long it will be before someone creates an emergency notification system that leverages the power of a simple RSS feed. My cell phone can read RSS content - it's only a matter of connecting a few dots to get it to ding or vibrate given some extended RSS content.

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