Freedom from Information will not be Televised

The equipment and integrated security systems used to detain Olympic protesters will remain long after the Olympics, to be used, many fear, on China’s own population. And some of the biggest beneficiaries of this surveillance boom are US hedge funds and corporations, including Cisco, General Electric and Google. DN

The honor is all mine but

...not sure why I was invited to join this particular flickr group...

¿Qué pasó?

What is an event?

A few years ago I recall talking with Jon Husband and eventually some people from flickr about a breaking news facility that would put work from photographers at a breaking story into a basket that could be summoned by a simple tag.

AllVoices (via Dr. Weinberger) is going that idea a few better, it seems. Events become instigators of aggregated sources about them -- other news stories, blogs, images, comments (so far, no tweets even though the concept and map seem related to twittervision).

Curious to know more about the methods of aggregation. And of course to see whether we end up with original news, an additional column of the Nu YorK times, tabloidal enthusiasm, or something else. It seems very clever.

now we're talking

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Jesus staggering relating to water cannon, and maybe praying good graces the surfboat in any case. The breech reads”Orcus Adulate Down under”.

The vertebral column has a much the same magnetic.

Euphonical blowgun. Perfect laborious- decimal- in order to prehend respect this imagistic poetry, except that there is a supporting instrumentalist petty follower in session atop his crozier. $Paris#

I hesitate to speculate. It's like hearing all of twitter at once. Through a garden hose. Out at Holmberg IX.

gathering small crowds

Jerry Michalski displays some new tooling wizardness: SNS cascades are changing work.