Please Rob Me

Fancy a bit of easy (ish) burglary?

Obviously I'm not condoning this law breaking act in any way, but should you be inclined then new website Please Rob Me will be just up your street.

By gathering information from location aware online apps and posting twitter updates from people who are willingly advertising the fact they are not at home, a list of 'opportunities' presents itself.

Found via ITPro, and as quoted in their article:

Seriously, would you put an advert in the local paper saying ‘I’m leaving my house tomorrow at 10am and won’t be back for 3 hours’ or such like?

I’m guessing the answer is no, yet plenty of people are quite happy to do the equivalent online in the name of being social, or playing a game. It really does beggar belief.

@straight2tpoint Twitter feed

After months of confusing my non-work friends with local media postings from my @jthornett twitter account I thought I'd set up a new feed based around this blog and all things related to local media and location services.

The most recent tweets from @straight2tpoint are now displayed on the right hand side of this blog but please follow me on Twitter if you want to keep right up to date.

It still feels slightly schizophrenic to have two different versions of me on the web but hopefully it will make information updates and conversation more focused and relevant to the right audience - or maybe it will all go horribly wrong, let's find out!