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this cracks me up to no end.
Today’s spring breakers have been tamed, not by parents or colleges or the fed-up cities they invade, but by the hand-held gizmos they hold dearest and the fear of being betrayed by an unsavory, unsanctioned photo or video popping up on Facebook or YouTube.
the transparent society is nearly here. from the conclusions of the paper:
it is possible to infer someone’s SSN by taking a picture of them and then correlating with public facebook profiles via widely available face recognition. minority report-style personalized advertising will be here long before 2054.
if you haven’t read the transparent society yet, now is a good time.
nice. which government IT projects are on schedule & on budget. can’t wait until this comes to other sleepy departments with their no-bid shenanigans.
blimps are orders of magnitude cheaper than UAVs, can stay airborne for over a week, are resilient and can carry unusual payloads.
the guy mostly seems to have clue, even though he uses twitter.
The Government Printing Office serves all 3 branches of government and prints the Official Journals of Government. GPO should lead the effort to make all primary legal materials produced by the US readily available.
carl malamud for printer of the us
Mr. Malamud years of activism had led him to set a long-shot goal: serving as head of the Government Printing Office. He noted that he published more pages online last year than the printing office did.
the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS. For each of the near term reporting requirements agencies are required to provide a feed (preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS) of the information so that content can be delivered via subscription.
StimulusWatch.org was built to help the administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the stimulus projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects.
hardly effective after the fact
The decision to embrace wikis is part of a changing ethic at the department, from a “need to know culture” to a “need to share culture”.
MA: You became mayor in July of 2006, you’re a couple of years in to your 4 year term. It sounds like right away when you became Mayor you started thinking about how surveillance could help some of the crime problems in your city. Can you talk about the Community Eye initiative, what it was when you started as Mayor, and what it’s become since then. CB: Sure, there was not really any kind of coordinated camera program what so ever. There may have been a few cameras out, but there was no monitoring, there was no substantive, strategic approach to using them. We realized right away that, one, from looking at other cities, and trying to learn from successes internationally to here in America, there was a lot of security leaders that talked about cameras as a positive thing. I knew we had to get more police on the streets. But we also had to find things that were force multipliers, ways of spreading out our police for in a way that gave us dramatically more coverage in preventing crime, reacting to crime, and adequately responding with emergency resources. So we began to explore the use of cameras, the first thing we did was use a local UEZ program, Urban Enterprise Zone to fund some cameras. Again, they were expensive, and I inherited a city that had a tremendous budget deficit. So I was trying to figure out ways to fund more cameras, we had already started a police foundation which was critical for helping with key technology advancements, from just getting computers into police cars, to other cutting edge things, they also funded our anonymous hotlines and tip lines for people who call in, and let the police know someone’s carrying an illegal gun and I know some information about a crime and get up to $2000 as a result of that. So we had a void, to try to meet my dream of having a huge wireless for cameras, and something else called gunshot detectors. Which means if a gun goes off in a zone, we’d be able to identify in seconds where the gun went off.
an update from the transparent society. wireless cameras and gunshot triangulators
Gregor J. Rothfuss 