Tag: team desertaxi

  • Team Desertaxi Competes in the 2008 Mongol Rally

    Team Desertaxi Competes in the 2008 Mongol Rally

    During the summer months of 2008, I worked with Team Desertaxi in their bid for the 2008 Mongol Rally. As director of media and field communictaions, I designed, developed, and deployed their complete deep-field communications systems, which allowed them to live-blog from the heart of Mongolia, with their media showing up on a website I…

  • Taxistan in the London Evening Standard

    Team Desertaxi, who’s website and field communications I oversee, has gotten a little more press coverage. The team, and their micro-nation of Taxistan have been written up in the London Evening Standard newspaper including pictures taken from the Team Desertaxi Blog. With this story, it seems like print media is starting to looking more closely…

  • Caught between Russia & Kazakhstan by war, Taxistan is born

    Caught between Russia & Kazakhstan by war, Taxistan is born

    I work with Mongol Rally entrant Team DeserTaxi, and set up their website, blog, and manage their field communications. Their mission is to drive a London black cab from London all the way to Mongolia. They were trying to cross the Kazakhstan-Russia border on the eve of Russia starting war with Georgia – and were…