http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/ Engadget Comments for FBI rolling out digital billboards in 20 cities http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
that one hurt inside :'(]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
I appreciate your mild amusement at my attempted humor.

Having lived in Philly from 2004 - 2006, I wholeheartedly agree with you. The city is falling to shit. Nothing like a corrupt ineffective government with a corrupt ineffective police force to speed up the deurbanization of a once relevant city. I've never actually seen this billboard, but I'd like to think that it's located at the entrance to the Ben Franklin Bridge, so that as the dwindling population of the birthplace of freedom flees to the exurbs of New Jersey, they're left with a name a face and a phone number to attribute the death of their city to.

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Oddly enough it is one or two blocks away from the Ben Franklin and the very road that leads to it(Linden Street I think), but faces the traffic that enters the city. But yeah, point made, Philly is gettin pretty bad.]]>Dec 27th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
Welcome to Milwaukee.]]>Dec 27th 2007 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
How is this anything special? Seriously? Ever been to NYC/Vegas they have like a million of these.

I guess the nifty thing is that it's not really and ad, and it does have amber alert potential... but still not seeing how this is new.]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/



Also, it's 'Las Vegans'.]]>Dec 27th 2007 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoYCqiO_nJI

:P]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
However, about 50% of Akron is the University of Akron and the surrounding areas, and the other 50% of the city wraps around that, so there's quite a mix of population here and being still very "poor" of an area when compared to Cleveland or Columbus, I could see this alert system working for some good - of course, that means we have to use our cell phones while driving... blasphemy!]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
Actually, these are the first outdoor electronic signs ever employed by the FBI... The point here is not the technology -- it never really is.

Multi-touch is why some people like the iPhone, but multi-touch has been around since the eighties. It's the application that made it unique.

Same deal here. Large-scale electronic signage has been affordable by government types for a long while now, but this is a creative application.

No doubt this will leverage that new public safety channel to be coming on line in the 700MHz band.]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
Another interesting ommission is New York City (ya know, one of the busiest cities in the country). Maybe they had some other data like the home regions of the majority of most wanteds, and used that to decide what the most "in-need" locations were.]]>Dec 27th 2007 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
You have obviously never seen the extremely clogged highways in the DC area (or the infamous ones in NY for that matter). DC metro highways also serve people who live quite far away, since housing is still pretty expensive people live far out and take 2 hour+ commutes, outside the reaches of the metro system. If you really wanted to, you could put these signs or some similar like them into the busy transfer stations (metro center, gallery place, l'enfant plaza for example).]]>Dec 27th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
I could be wrong but thats what i got out of it.]]>Dec 27th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
Hell, ban traditional billboards, too. Too ugly.]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
There's at least 30 cities in the US with populations reaching over half a million. Seems it'd be more effective with more people seeing 1 billboard compared to 1 person seeing the same face on 3 different billboards on their way to work.]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/
I think you mean criminal justice, not the study of crime...]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/]]>Dec 27th 2007 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/27/fbi-rolling-out-digital-billboards-in-20-cities/Dec 27th 2007 1:05PM