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Hackers get theirs, RFID tags follow them everywhere at CCC
"The "CCC Sputnik" badges, as they're known, are tracked by 35 monitoring stations, which in turn export a public XML feed so that anyone who wants to can track the wearers around the eBeat officers to use head cameras
"The tiny £1,800 cameras ... will be fitted onto the side of the officers' headgear. Police say the clearly visible cameras will act as a deterrent, as well as an evidence gathering tool." HThe New World, the Rise of the New Culture of Participation
"The technologies of participatory culture can be catalysts for progress, expanding our capacity to understand the world and share that understanding with others. Such capabilities are sorely neeOpenStreetMap project
"OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data ... to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually haParticipation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities
"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action." Any response from the regularPedestrians get pollution sensors
"Sensors will be fitted to pedestrians and in buses as part of a £4.1m project aiming to measure pollution levels across England." Participatory pollution panopticon? Link via Warren Ellis.Participatory Panopticon Draws Ever Closer
'Life caching' with your Series 60 mobile phone, plus the iPod breathaliser ... the world gets weirder and more wired as the days fly past.PDC 2006 - Trento, Italy
2006 Participatory Design Conference Expanding Boundaries in Design Trento, Italy, August 1-5, 2006