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An anonymous blogger known only as s.h. posting detailed descriptions of the daily efforts of response based on robot disaster at Fukushima. The blog includes technical details and personal anecdotes, but nothing sensitive to national security. However, in early July, the blog was discontinued and later deleted altogether. S.H. uploaded to YouTube videos have been made private. The origin of this clean up is not known, although of course it is understandable that bosses believed blog too revealing and asked that s.h. would accept him.
Something cannot be removed from the Internet without anyone noticing, however, particularly a blog like this, full of interesting and timely information related to efforts to curb the ongoing reactor. So when he disappeared, IEEE Spectrum undertook not only to keep the cached version of the blog, but to translate it and republish it. This is a powerful demonstration of the durability of Internet media-and interesting to read in its own right.
Blog is a combination of technical reviews and a normal human aspect of this work. Here are a few excerpts to give you a taste (format mine to save space):
Today, together with the battery charging robots, it was my turn to teach. I have them a little bit yesterday, though. Training takes place at low radiation outdoor area, but we wear full radiation protection clothes and accoutrements, detract from my thinking abilities. I usually not good thinking (LOL). The training is designed to replicate as closely as possible the actual task. At first I tried to open a heavy steel door (with a round knob). They said that I was the first person to successfully opening the door with a handle, actually.
Today we went and used two PackBots are to measure levels of radiation on the ground floor of the nuclear reactor in no. 3, the building where clean Warrior (disinfection) yesterday.
As a result of radiation levels decreased an average of about 10%.
If you're just looking at the results of the measurements they still look pretty high, but on the other hand, if you only look at the difference [in some areas], you get the sense that it was very effective.
There are places where the rate decreased to a maximum of 80 mph.
The first one who got up to go to the bathroom, Mr. S, said: "Hey, there's someone here. Who is this? "so I got to see and there was someone sleeping on tatami floor ... I looked at his face and don't recognize it. I woke up it asks, "who are you? You are in the right room? "he was kind of confused as well.
“? ? ?”
"What room it?" he said sleepily.
He slightly smelled alcohol, so he probably got drunk and slept in a wrong number.
You get the idea. There are photos of the operating environment, robots and so forth. All in all recording valuable recovery and cleanup efforts around the reactor. One commenter in IEEE, who works with the same robots already mentioned, he found some useful information from a shortened incomplete translation! Although I can understand that such a thing must also be distributed as part of the official operator environment (reports and such), this blog was clearly non-destructive way for unofficial information.
There were also selected pictures and videos:
Blog disappeared in July and still nobody commented. It is interesting to note that this does not mean whether it was closed voluntarily or under pressure from s.h. leaders. The fact that because it's worth something to someone, the deletion of this content was in their hands.
It is a form of Internet archaeology. In fact the site with the same name was formed to consolidate goldmine kitsch, Geocities. And although it's a bit of a lark, the principle applies equally to more serious content, as S.H. in the blog. Content controls disappear from the Internet is usually pretty about it. Truly sensitive information like Wikileaks or hackers Black Hat, it is virtually impossible to completely eliminate.
What is the endgame here? Polarization. If official government programs have to worry about their employees ' personal blogs, they just may prohibit them from having them at all. On the other hand to satisfy the thirst for information in real time and "transparency", will have a more formal channels for such data must be created. Will closely regulate these channels? Yes. They will identify and wonder how blogs like sh? # They will be better than what we were five years ago? Perhaps. There will always be a demand for deep secret anonymous blogs etc, but the methods to suppress and methods for creating, in a constant arms race. Sometimes you can get it from the tap, but sometimes you just have to get it, as it was bottled.
At the same time, if you're at all interested in cleanup efforts, or practical Robotics in General, check the record of the IEEE. If you speak Japanese, you can see some of the posts, mirrored here, and Google cache is still partially intact.
