F** This!

I ran into F** This!, a site that allows citizens to report any dissatisfaction about infrastructure in New York. The provider's job is to automatically notified related authorities to see if things will get improved. As this,

In the land of F** This! you are granted many wonderful powers. You can become a guardian of public infrastructure. You can keep your city working smoothly. You can post pictures of busted crap–partially disassembled escalators in subway stations, cavernous potholes, permanently dark street lights–and trade snide and insightful comments with your wonderful new F** This! cyberfriends (why can’t your real life friends be this cool?). At the same time, while you’re busy enjoying yourself, we’ll see to it that the appropriate public officials get notified and the problem you identified gets dealt with. Or, if said officials prove useless in fixing the busted stuff, we’ll see to it that they endure at least some small measure of public humiliation. It’ll be fun!

Using technology (mainly web and GIS) is the area I will be working on during the rest of my research.(or maybe not?)

I hope to share more things latter!