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Stalking bad guys for good
I found this TechCrunch piece fascinating in how technology rapidly morphs itself. While people get all 1984 Orwellian about the implications of location-based services that utilize the GPS in a cell phone to beam out your location, here someone uses it to nab the bad guy. Yesterday, Silicon Valley’s local CBS affiliate ran a story…
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Hot tea and a good paper
Maybe newspapers need tea parties or pamphleteer meetups (with bloggers). Where all politics becomes local, the need for national leaders is less important and issues of great importance do not become a personification of them. I might add that the success of the movement in returning power to local communities and states might save more…
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Judge declines to restrict anonymous comments on Knoxville Web sites
This is welcome news: A Knox County judge this afternoon issued an order refusing to require local media to shut down anonymous commentary allowed on their Web sites. Knox County Judge Richard Baumgartner wrote in his ruling: “So long as people are not committing any wrongdoing they should be free to anonymously participate in the…