Collaborative crime-fighting: my buddy danah boyd got her credit cards and phone and stuff ripped off while at a party in Austion at SXSW, and now the blogosphere is looking for this guy and his friends.
It leads to some interesting thoughts about ubiquitous cameras+publishing, social networks as safety nets, and the good, or evil, a posse can do.
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By all means, let’s round up the black people! After all, a white woman makes unsubstantiated claims that they’re guilty. Let’s start a mob!
Hi, Wow!
Race doesn’t have anything to do with it. The comment doesn’t make any more sense here than it did on danah’s blog.