Mashable: Has Twitter’s Growth Peaked?

http://mashable.com/2009/09/25/twitter-traffic-ceiling/

Mashable: Gather Feedback With Social Media

http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/social-media-feedback/

Surveillance Society: Big Brother is watching and he likes what he sees…

A world for the taking, when he’s ready to squeeze¹.

As an avid fan of George Orwell’s masterpieces “Animal Farm” and “1984″ (Ayn Rand too), a professional computer programmer who builds business systems and some one who finds the current political climate increasingly 1984 like, I’ve decided to start compiling all the disturbing information that I come across, which increasingly seems to indicate that Orwell was off by about 30 years.

Decide for yourself and send me anything I’ve missed!

Network World: Futuristic security surveillance system brings Big Brother to life

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45590?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2009-09-25

Telegraph: EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Orwellian-artificial-intelligence-plan-to-monitor-public-for-abnormal-behaviour.html

VIDEO: Project Hostile Intent

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1109039805713

DHS Memo on Data Mining

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_datamining_July24_2008_minutes.pdf

1. The title of this blog is an except of some lyrics from the Kansas song

Network World: Futuristic security surveillance system brings Big Brother to life

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45590?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2009-09-25

Is this a good thing? Oh wait, I know, “you have nothing to fear if you’ve done nothing wrong”…

From the article:
“DARPA said it envisions two major applications for such a system. Perhaps most important, the first would use the system in a near real-time mode to receive alerts and warnings to react to and avert disasters. For example, if it notices a number of activities that were out of the usual, such as the gathering of lots of soldiers and trucks it could alert local authorities. “

For example, maybe a Tea Party gathering? Republican Party meeting?

For more of the same across the pond, see Telegraph: EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour”

Is Kerry Livgren, the phenomenal former guitarist of Kansas, a prophet or what (see below)

CIO: Five Lessons from Microsoft on Cloud Security

http://www.cio.com/article/500505/Five_Lessons_from_Microsoft_on_Cloud_Security?source=rss_how_to

Fortune 500 Series: FedEx delivers success through social media

http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=1685

WIRED: Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/fbi-nsac/

Is this good?

“Big Brother is watching and he likes what he sees, a world for the taking when he’s ready to squeeze” – Kerry Livgren (Kansas) “Sparks of the Tempest”

Telegraph: EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for “abnormal behaviour”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Orwellian-artificial-intelligence-plan-to-monitor-public-for-abnormal-behaviour.html

The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian” technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”.

Like this, then you’ll LOVE this: Network World: Futuristic security surveillance system brings Big Brother to life

“Big Brother is watching and he likes what he sees, a world for the taking when he’s ready to squeeze” – from the Kanasas song, “Sparks of the Tempest” on the album “Point of Know Return”, 1977. Check out the lyrics, it’s amazingly prophetic.

Boston Globe: MA Supreme Court OK’s secret use of GPS devices

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/18/sjc_oks_secret_use_of_gps_devices/

Does this sound like a good idea?

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