Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

I know you’ve probably all seen interdictor by now….I’m not sure I can add much to what he says.

Nice to see the internet is getting to be the kind of place where you can find out what is actually happening in the middle of such a disaster without the spin of mainstream media. Sure, this guy probably has a political bias, he’s from a military background (hence his work now as crisis management for an ISP), but you know where you stand with that and don’t have to try to see through the corporate message (particularly amused by his shortness with people who read his comments about the city being taken over by ‘animals’ as racist comments).

The video feed isn’t too bad either, considering its being relayed out of a city thats had no power for three days via New York and being viewed by upward of 4000 people at a time.

I’ll be interested to see how the situation develops, I’m hoping that things aren’t as bad out there as they seem right now, and that we can learn a lot about being prepared for this kind of disaster in the future and about how we organise our lives in cities in the future. But I’ll think some more about that once they’re out of the immediate problems.


2 comments

    • Yeah, theres not much to see outside during darkness, ‘cos theres no light in the city, no power. They’re just a bunch of ordinary guys doing ordinary things, but sitting out the storm.

      The feed is getting a bit more interesting today.

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