On the one hand, progress to let people testify over Skype. That alone could save 1000s of police hours per month in Manhattan alone. On the other hand, all the trolling looks really bad.

Month: July 2013
State Department spent $630K on Facebook ‘likes’
i can’t wait for this bubble to burst, and all the social media experts to go back to making coffee for me like they used to.
Twitter pseudoscience
this disease of mapping tweets and then inferring all sorts of nonsense from it has to stop. you start with a extraordinarily low quality dataset and then mash it with inaccurate geolocation, and you get j-school drivel.