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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Brasserie Harkema | Welkom
Excellent lunchtime burgers and croques from €4.50
Twitter / Ashley Leaney: @mypolice "CCTV is oversol ...
@mypolice "CCTV is oversold.... dramatically" - Biggest police problem is lack of resources so even if offence seen on CCTV often no use.
Check out your local bobby at the new Tesco copshops | News
Tesco is to open its doors to the police so they can mingle with shoppers and boost community relations.
Twitter / mypolice: "The £600 uniform has lite ...
"The £600 uniform has literally changed the face of policing - it encourages macho behaviour" #dispatches #readyforariot
russell davies: what would clay do?
Obviously-he-would-say-that-alert: Which should make us all glad all over that 4IP exists. It's not just that they're smart and imaginative or that they're investing in different things; it's that they're investing in different people. People who wouldn't be willing to do the usual VC dance and can deliver different sorts of value. That's got to be a good thing. Just as we need to find new models for the firm, we need to find new ways to stimulate and support entrepreneurs. 4IP is a great start because they're able to invest in the sort of things Clay's talking about.
Personal Finance | Online Software | Money Dashboard
Sweet Scottish startup that manages all your bank accounts and shows you where you could do better
Joho the Blog » Larry Lessig: Beyond Transparency, and Net Triumphalism
Net triumphalism seemed more plausible back in the days when the demographics of the participants were pretty homogeneous, masking the role culture played in the homogeneous effects the Net was having. As regimes have censored the Net in ways the Net has not routed around, as Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and then Clay Shirky showed us that the Net tends towards the old patterns of unequal influence, as the mere networked presence of Howard Dean supporters failed to end GW Bush’s reign of error, naive Internet Triumphalism has become unsupportable. As Joe Trippi said, we need mouse pads and shoe leather. As Aaron Swartz says, we need narrative journalism as well as the Web. As Larry Lessig says, we need political reform as well as the Web. Indeed, as Aaron and Larry point out, the sunlight of transparency casts shadows as well.

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