Worth a Look: Citizen Intelligence on Homeland Security Waste

Starting in the fall of 2008, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Center for Public Integrity fielded a team of reporters to examine how effectively governments at all levels had managed money and programs dedicated to homeland security.  The result was a series of stories — and an interactive map — that have been …

Worth a Look: Talking Plants–Sensor to Shooter

“Homegrown Terra-rists” Ignite Video The Ignite Show just posted episode 2, Kati’s Botanicalls Ignite NYC talk from back in September 2008 during Web 2.0 Expo. You may want to skip past the intro…and start at 1:33. The Botanicalls system and applications use networked open source hardware and software to allow plants to communicate with people …

Journal: ClimateGate Update 13 February 2010

World may not be warming, say scientists We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias,” he said. The Uncertain Fate of the IPCC Opponents of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tried strangling …

Journal: Real-Time Intelligence & Information Sharing

OcPac officers collaborate on drug cases By Benjamin Brown GateHouse News Service Posted Feb 11, 2010 @ 04:00 PM Scituate — As a way of dealing with cross-town crime and drug use, Scituate police have banded together with other local departments to pursue cases beyond individual town borders. Marshfield Police Capt. Phil Tavares founded the …