Comments on: The Great Sedgefield Mash-up http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/25/the-great-sedgefield-mash-up/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:56:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: wendyg http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/25/the-great-sedgefield-mash-up/#comment-2825 wendyg Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:02:37 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/25/the-great-sedgefield-mash-up/#comment-2825 I don't know. I'd be pretty shocked to learn that there were 12 car break-ins a year in my neighborhood (which I may define differently than these services do) - in fact, I would think there was one guy they needed to catch. But I live in Kew, where *one* car break-in on my (small cul-de-sac) street would have the affected neighbor banging on everyone's doors to alert them to the menace and alerting the guys in the local shop (who would also pass it on). If I lived in somewhere less...salubrious and clubby I might think 12 a modest number. I'm not sure the entirety of the kind of context you're talking about can be conveyed by such a service, and don't most people have *some* idea what kind of place they live in? wg I don’t know. I’d be pretty shocked to learn that there were 12 car break-ins a year in my neighborhood (which I may define differently than these services do) - in fact, I would think there was one guy they needed to catch. But I live in Kew, where *one* car break-in on my (small cul-de-sac) street would have the affected neighbor banging on everyone’s doors to alert them to the menace and alerting the guys in the local shop (who would also pass it on). If I lived in somewhere less…salubrious and clubby I might think 12 a modest number. I’m not sure the entirety of the kind of context you’re talking about can be conveyed by such a service, and don’t most people have *some* idea what kind of place they live in?

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