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LittleSis -- The Sousveillance Website

last updated about 1 year ago, 0 Comments

Relatively new and still evolving, LittleSis has already garnered some publicity in the last couple of months.  The website is http://littlesis.org/.  It describes itself as "an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you." The creators go on to explain: "It's easier than ever to spot the symptoms of corruption and cronyism in our political process.  Ordinary Americans have never felt more shut out from all levels of gov...

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Saving young murderers/victims in New Orleans

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A recent New Orleans Times Picayune article today published some of my ideas on youth murder patterns emerging in the US(especially, NOLA) which is focused and intentional. How might new peer mentoring and other -prevention programs be efficiently delivered using a Web 2.0 framework to the highest risk youth to efficiently save these obviously enormous personal and financial costs? Jeff Frazier and I have been pondering this issue. Assuming putting a young person in j...

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Mumbai hostage network

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Following September 11, 2001, there was much discussion about how the Internet had empowered terrorists.    This morning, NBC News in the US carried a report about the other side of the story.  They interviewed a British hostage who helped to create a (Blackberry-based) network among the hostages in the Oberoi Hotel to coordinate information and also bring in objective information from outside the hotel.  Fascinating aspect of a very grim situation.   You can...

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