Big Data Skepticism from journal Science via SciAm; flu incidence geography

Re Google Flu Trends not predicting very well. Of interest because of tie between flu incidenc and geographical info

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/03/13/why-big-data-isnt-necessarily-better-data/?WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

Democracy, counted HOW?

RantWoman posts these items witn the intention of also gathering content about different approaches to counting used when some guidance is needed about group sentiment for some kind of public decision.

Assembly publics and the problem of hegemony in consensus decisionmaking
http://www.opendemocracy.net/christoph-haug/assembly-publics-and-problem-of-hegemony-in-consensus-decision-making


A Wikipedia item about a meeting management approach called Progressive Stack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack

Urban Shield Program willnot make Boston any safer

Those who know RantWoman will not be surprised to see things posted headed teh direction this piece goes.

However this piece is posted here with an eye to civic hacking / transparency / opportunities for grassroot initiative.

http://wagingnonviolence.org/2014/05/urban-shield-will-make-boston-safer/