Twitter: A Trail of Transparent Breadcrumbs

I have been thinking about transparency, social media, and government accountability for a while.  At the FiRe conference in San Diego, I ran into fellow sf writer and contrarian, David Brin, who authored  the non-fiction book, The Transparent Society.  This book made a difference in the way I think about government and life, and has made me a firm believer in the idea that transparency begets accountability. 

As a futurist, I knew a long time ago that the Internet would be the doorway to the fut