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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Crime fighting blogs?
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The Western States Infomration Network (WSIN) is using blogs to share information. WSIN shares crime information across several western states and their associated law enforcement agencies. Until recently, they shared this information via email and normal web pages. The difficulty was simple:
There was lots of duplicate email
Getting something on a website was a chore
Enter blogs - they found a way to allow any authorized user to quickly push information to their servers, in a way that any authorized user could easily check. I wonder if they use RSS internally? This is a very cool use of blog software, IMHO
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