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Based on a True Story

Source Story

Owner of computer repair business (amusingly titled "That Computer Chap") accused of "stealing RAM" and "touching the 9 year old child" of a customer. Taken from BBC news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171

The Review

"Robbed My RAM and Touched 9 Year Old What a scam artist, he stole RAM from my computer and replaced it 
with smaller chips hoping I wouldnt notice and also I later found out touched my 9 year old inappropriately.
A Violator and a rogue trader. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!"

Keywords

Identity/reputation
Freedom of speech
Google power!
Crowdsourced data

Elements

Ethics of free speech
Corruption of dataset
Research google's TOS with relation to slanderous comments/reviews

Summary

Unrelated offensive review to very innocent businesses with the "DO NOT TRADE WITH THIS MAN!" #hashtag.

Draft

got sum falafels from d falafel king in rottrdam but d falafel was ful of keys and he did stole a wheel from my bicycel. A violater and rogue falafel vendor. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!!!

List of stories

The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

Nike's original monitor from the 1980s

Source: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-07/lbnp_nike?currentPage=1

Interesting expressions:

quantitative mindset
living by numbers
observer effect
researcher and subject at the same time
you are the data
Open source spinoffs of Nike's web app > allows the user to retain control over their data while still using the Nike sensors - [neki http://neki.sourceforge.net/]

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 ==List of stories==