MyPredatorSpace

Passed on without comment:

a fabulous idea for a mashup… perhaps even an “internal” mashup to be put in place by the likes of MySpace, Facebook, Match.com etc… how about mashing the social network with state and county court records information or existing Sexual Predator mashups in order to mash a user profile with a record that shows that him or her is a recorded sexual predator?

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Given that there’s public records widely available flagging those with criminal records this would indeed be a welcomed service for those users of the popular networking resources. A great example of a predator database built by accessing public records is the Florida Sexual Predators mashup – see details at http://www.gisuser.com/index.php?option=com_akogallery&Itemid=97&func=detail&id=249

Ward Churchill fired

Re: polemics (see previous post), is anyone disturbed by this?

On being critical or polemics?

Recently I posted some remarks about whether it is possible to be partisan without being polemical, noting that Foucault preferred “problematizations, not polemics.”

Now there’s this essay considering polemics in more detail.