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...research group last fall tested the Npod, a GPS-based device about the size of a cell phone. The media group gave the gadget to 850 consumers as they moved around Chicago for 10 days and counted when they passed 12,500 ad sites. Layering demographic and TAB traffic data over maps of billboard locales, the study delivered the sharpest outdoor ratings the industry has seen. Nielsen found that, on average, Chicagoans pass 66 outdoor displays each day. TAB is conducting its own industry-funded study to measure the likelihood that a person passing an ad will...
There were trees. The traffic used to go up the street instead of down, and there was very little traffic. The pace was slower...
Friendster’s fizzle raises the question of whether Facebook.com can maintain its site traffic...
...Recent events have underscored his point: last May, top D.C. officials didn't learn a Cessna was intruding into their airspace until they saw it on CNN; last July 4, a test of the downtown emergency evacuation plan after the fireworks found that traffic signals didn't switch to evacuation timing, some federal radios weren't charged and some officials didn't have a clear sense of their responsibilities. Local officials say they fixed the problems afterwards. But as Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's congressional delegate, puts it: "You wonder how many afterwards there are going to have...
...They also need to learn how to protect themselves when those institutions can't. Since 1993, the federal government's Community Emergency Response Team program has trained civilians to be auxiliary first responders - a formalized, more effective version of the Manhattan businessmen who loosened their ties and directed traffic during the 2003 blackout. The program is now available in more than 2000 jurisdictions. "If the people in Louisiana had been better educated," says RAND consultant Glenn Melnick, "the loss of property would have been the same, but we would have lost a lot fewer lives...