Assisting Law Enforcement and Families Of Missing Loved Ones

Six  years ago, while standing inside a Wal-Mart, Cynthia Caron realized that those passing were walking through the entrance and nobody glanced over at the huge wall frame of missing children.  She felt perhaps the general population may have become “desensitized” to the “missing child” posters.  She also realized that it was rare to see …

Reference: Social Networking–The Future (Mark Suster)

TechCrunch 5 December 2010 Social Networking: The Future Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I and Part II first. This series is an adaptation of a recent talk Suster gave at the Caltech …

Crime Data Controversy: Open or Proprietary

forums.e-democracy.org correspondences on the issue BAD news for opening up broad access to crime data – the number one everyday citizen demanded government information based my direct experience with online community forums. Note some useful links: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Minneapolis_and_St._Paul_crime_data “CrimeReports is contending in a current federal case that public crime data becomes CrimeReports’ own proprietary product in …