Sous, sous, sousveillance?
Taking the Sous out of Sousveillance, or forgive them Jamais for they know not what they do.The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. link
In other news, I've come across a couple of excellent blogs for those interested in designing futures. Check out:
Dori's Moblog (design anthropologist in Chicago)
A Thousand Tomorrows (futures consultancy in Belgium)
And finally, the painfully obvious...
Meetings make us dumber, study shows
People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests. ... The researchers speculate that when a group of people receives information, the inclination is to discuss it. The more times one option is said aloud, the harder it is for individuals to recall other options, explained Krishnan, associate professor of marketing at Indiana University.I have noticed my own personal brain-damage when trying to think in a meeting, now I have confirmation!
and incentive to buy that bowtie 5.0 megapixel camera i've always wanted...
french frei?
no wait
they been de-franced...
no no no
i got it,
patriot act meets parisian act in a showdown for least rights allowed:
both nations were read, wite, and blew all over pink's wall!...