Drop by Best & Brightest: Carnival #228 to look around where the mobile action is. Hosted by Carnival of the Mobilists masked Ringmaster Peggy Anne Satz, this blog-post review parades the best mobile blogging every week. Twittered calls for posts have expanded the Carnival’s reach.

This O’Reilly’s Books & Videos page is a something of a primer for what is going on at the edge of ebooking . In the copy there designed to sell the company’s offerings, a lot is explained about the options in this exploding new venue. The page caught my eye in O’Reilly’s newsletter headline that included “1500 DRM-Free Ebooks.

Law enforcement officials have long used phone records and, more recently, e-mails and text messages to help solve crimes. Now a field of forensic study is emerging that deals with iPhones specifically, targeting GPS data, browser history and other potentially incriminating information. Textually.org points to USA Today and a new field of forensic study for iPhones

The personal computer and the web were both inspired by visions of technologies that could “augment human intellect” in the words of pioneer Doug Engelbart . From the beginning, these tools were envisioned as both personal and social, enabling individuals and groups to think, communicate, and collaborate more effectively . This workshop begins with a look at the early visions of Vannevar Bush, JCR Licklider, and Doug Engelbart (with a nod to little-known pioneers like Paul Otelet who preceded these visionaries).

Holland police monitors Twitter searching for tweeps causing potential riots at the final soccer match tonite for the #worldcup Holland #ned – Spain #esp seen on Twitter Politie pakt ratdraaiers op die via Twitter oproepen rotzooi te gaan schoppen http://bit.ly/a1iSDN en http://vl.am/yh4 less than a minute ago via Twitter Digital Curator

In a recent Newswire, The Rockefeller University describes a project in which New research shows how experience shapes the brain’s circuitry . The report includes a slideshow from which the mouse image above and neuron network below are copied. When you think about it, some principles at work here are key phenomena in smart mobs: Input changes relationships and shifts happen when nodes are removed

Just a quick note, to bring a couple of earlier posts up to date. Some while back, I posted here about the conversation between Leah Farrall, at one time the Australian Federal Police’s top al-Qaeda specialist, and Abu Walid al-Masri, a senior Taliban strategist currently under house arrest in Iran. I said then that I believed this kind of correspondence “across battle lines” was pretty remarkable