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Read the fascinating details of this story, and ask yourself why the media has shown little interest in following up and bringing them to you:

• Michelle Malkin: Mystery at Goose Creek: Who are the accused Pipe Bomb Boys (updated)
• Riehl World View: SC 2 Linked to Sami al-Arian Investigation

The news media should be keeping an eye on incidents like these, but they’re not. Instead, they’re helping to make sure everybody stays asleep.

If you think the media has been doing its job in keeping us informed about terrorism-related evidence and events, you’re completely mistaken.

Read and watch this: Radioactivity at Jersey City? Conflicting reports

(stein hoist to Noisy Room).

By the way, if you live anywhere near Jersey City, it’s up to you to demand some answers as to who has been telling the media to keep us in the dark about a vital matter such as this!

Since the news media and the governmental authorities aren’t properly keeping track of these incidents and informing us so that we can use this information to safeguard our families and communities, it looks as though we’ll have to start doing that ourselves.

I blogged about that quite recently; see Why we need a public-access database for tracking small-scale disasters and unusual events. I’m waiting for your suggestions!

Michelle Malkin’s article tells us that the SC pipe-bomb duo had, until recently, been using Web 2.0 social venues to network. How interesting! You can be sure that they aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the Web for that purpose. E-jihadists, and those who aid and abet them, are all over the web. So are courageous, diligent, and loyal citizens who are ferreting them out and reporting them.

Just for starters:

• Who’s Editing Wikipedia and Why?
• Wikipedia EditGate: Al Jazeera’s Antisemitism
• My Cyber Counter-Jihad
• Jihadi websites hosted in the USA (updates)
• Spies watch rise of virtual terrorists
• Virtual terrorists
• Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations
• A web wise terror network
• How to Keep Islamist Sites Out of your Google Ads
• 4 British students convicted of collecting terrorist training videos
• Web of Terror, Part 1: Extremists Take to the Net
• Web of Terror, Part 2: Chasing a Moving Target
• The Mosque of Chebi - and Muslims in Second Life
• Jihad and Second Life (Updated)
• Homeland Security Comes to Second Life

This is where you come in! You, with your helpful eyes and ears, and with your cognitive abilities and your common sense to help you to connect the dots! Put those to work whenever you explore Web 2.0 social venues. If you see something, say something. Blog about it, comment about it, and notify the authorities. Also notify the owner of the web venue and everyone who should be aware. Above all, keep watching to make sure that appropriate action is taken!

Update: Keep these links at hand for the next time you spot a Wikipedia spin job - whether it’s e-jihadist or anything else:

• Virgil Griffith’s Wikipedia Scanner
• Submit the evidence to WikiWatch at Wired.com: Submit a Wikipedia Spin Job
• How Wikipedia Scanner works: See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

Also see:

• Global Terrorism Incident Map: Here are the Links and Contact Info
• Resources

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MySpace deletes profiles of convicted sex offenders - which is good, as far as it goes. But how many more sex offenders are still out there that nobody knows about?

For the legalities and privacy law issues involved, see: How can State’s AG Get Sex Offender Information from MySpace?

Wired.com has two articles about using scripting tools to help identify child-sex predators on MySpace: MySpace Predator Caught by Code and How to Catch a MySpace Creep.

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In an earlier post, this blog invited readers to take a look at a new project called Assignment Zero.

This project is billed as a “pro-am” collaboration between Wired.com and NewAssignment.net. Its first effort, which explores “crowdsourcing,” seems to be rather self-referential!

While it is still a month away from completion, here’s a preview: Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness.

Check it out, then let us know what you think!

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Here’s your chance to have your say!

Hi,

I’m David Cohn, aka Digidave on Digg and Netscape — and I often write about social news sites for Wired, NewAssignment or my blog.

I’m writing to you because I know you are interested in social news sites like Stumbled Upon, Reddit, and others.

And that’s exactly what we are trying to cover at Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired — and you can help. With just 10 minutes of your time, you might just end up in Wired.

We are trying to do networked journalism — anything you contribute will be like notes on a reporters notebook. Everything is licenced under the creative commons — and a Wired magazine writer, Jeff Howe, will produce a large feature using this reporting. If he uses anything you produced, he will link back and give you credit. He may even quote you — who knows.

In addition to research, we also have writing assignments — and Wired has agreed that any writing assignments that meet their editorial standards could get published on Wired news, so it might be a neat way to become a writer for Wired. You can contribute in 10 minutes — or if you have more time, you can pick up a writing assignment.

And one of the topics that we are covering is ” Social News Sites: The Crowd is the Editor, Duking it Out Over the Day’s Top Stories.” It’s an interesting story, no? Editors used to decide what the most important news of the day was. Now, collectively we decide - and we can decide by whatever measures we want.

It’s real easy to contribute — Just visit this page and click to join the team.

The editor of this page is Christine Riedel, a senior news producer at AOL. And there are already people who have signed up to be members of the team.

If social news sites aren’t your thing, we have other topics (from music, to cars, science and film). You can see the entire story shaping up from the homepage just under the latest blog post, or you can search by your interest here.

So what are we looking for? We have specific assignments. Questions about weaving together a timeline of Digg, or looking for other examples of social news sites, explaining what Netscape’s meta-journalism is — Anything is helpful. You can even just re-submit old blog posts that you have written as filed reporting.

Why? Not only to get your name in Wired (or any other blog or news organization that also dives into our reporting) — the real reason why to do it — because we are trying to figure something out. Social news sites proved that people want to engage with the news — directly. Well, here is a way to engage in it too — by helping to produce it.

And if you have a blog — why not invite your readers to help you out too? It’s an interesting way to engage your readers in a new way. Instead of telling them what’s important, you will be inviting them to join you in an ongoing investigation. It will be a challenge in some sense, can you and your readers come together to tackle a specific subject together? You will meet them on a new playing field — and I bet they’ll appreciate that.

Anyways. If you have questions or concerns or anything of that nature — don’t hesitate to email me: david.newassignment@gmail.com

This is a project I really believe in (and I know it can work) — and as someone that has been swept into social bookmarking for the same reason — I think you might find some value in it too.

Best,
David Cohn
dcohn1@gmail.com
AssignmentZero.com
Digidave.org

Update: First Take on Assignment Zero

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