User Profile: Dawn

About

Name:Dawn Coplin
Member since:March 24, 2007
Interests:Writing
Expertise:see bio
Location:North East
Affiliations:some exp. w/ small pubs -a little writing, editing, layout, ad sales, even interviewing
Website:http://crowings.wordpress.com
Joined because:To observe, pitch in, see how it goes.
Bio:Semi-unprofessional writer, pretty decent editor, artist. Done all sorts of things been all sorts of places known all sorts of people. A few things: historical geography, indigenous perspective, environmental sustainability, communication, citizenship and the political situation. Educational background:C.G. & Graphic Design, and English, concentration in History & Anthropology, Sociology.

Recent Activities

TypeTitleAuthorRepliesLast Post
ReportingAnatomy of a ScoopDawn01 year 13 weeks ago
Topic DiscussionWhy Is That a Crazy Idea?: A Citizen Intelligence OutfitDawn01 year 14 weeks ago
ReportingSteven Aftergood, Director of the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy ProjectDawn01 year 14 weeks ago
Forum topicDisproportionate Rates in Crime/Law EnforcementDawn01 year 15 weeks ago
Blog entryHi AgainJesse Wegman21 year 15 weeks ago
ReportingKCNN: Knight Citizen News NetworkDawn01 year 15 weeks ago
Blog entryPruning Shears in HandMichele McLellan11 year 15 weeks ago
Forum topicIdeas for Assignment OneAnna Haynes61 year 13 weeks ago
Blog entryEconomics of Open SourcingMaurreen Skowran31 year 15 weeks ago
Blog entryFriday's round-upLauren Sandler41 year 15 weeks ago

Blog

Topics of Interest

Spying
Law Enforcement/Crime Fighting
Legal Motions
Legislation
Open Source Political Journalism
Open Source Government

These are the topics I'm interested in, for now.

Mainly I am testing because yesterday I was having a terrible problem with getting auto-logged-out constantly, immediately after logging in.


Testing, One Two Three.

I am over in the "Crimefighting"-'other examples' assignment area, so far, trying to get my sea legs here.

I know I am not alone in viewing the term 'crime' as denoting something rather more broad than what Newt Gingritch and his ilk were referring to during the beginning of the "neoconservative revolution" he helped launch in the nineties, when they started going on about "war on crime".