Sunlight Foundation to lead ‘Super Committee’ online transparency protest at Sen. Toomey Center City offices [VIDEO]

The Sunlight Foundation will be ‘haunting’ Sen. Pat Toomey’s Center City offices Monday morning.

Protesting what it calls a lack of transparency around the federal deficit reducing ‘Super Committee,’ the D.C. based good government organization is sending representatives and volunteers to a dozen committee members across the country.

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Occupy Philly photoblog captures more than ’99 Faces, 99 Signs,’ from Michael Bixler

The local outpost of the Occupy movement, the wide-ranging, peaceful uprising turned tent city, has made fine use of the social web for connecting groups around the world. Most viscerally though, the weeks-long demonstration is captured by a sea of people and their signs — messages inscribed for a soundless moment.

Michael Bixler is seeking to bring those local moments back to the web, by way of his straight forward Tumblr 99 Faces, 99 Signs.

The Point Breeze freelance writer, photographer and videographer was motivated to capture Occupy Philly after he and his girlfriend visited the Wall Street demonstrations on their seventh day.

Now it’s gone much further than he had planned.

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Occupy Threat Center: ListenLogic visualizes movement through social media data mining

With the #OccupyPhilly protests on-going and continuing to spread elsewhere in the world, there is data to be crunched.

ListenLogic, the Fort Washington social business intelligence firm, has done just that, including the infographic above and more on the chatter surrounding this social media-driven movement.

Find more of their research here.