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Here's a question you don't ask everyday: how many people are the victims of human trafficking in the Boston area?

Every so often I peruse the local readings list in the Boston Phoenix to get a sense of what readings are in town. It lists the title, author, time, location. Simple enough, but I then generally Google the book to see what the heck it's about.

When Andrew Rasiej, the co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, ran for Public Advocate of New York City in 2005, he campaigned on a novel civic idea: the city should create a service that enabled residents to report potholes using their cameraphones. He even set up the website for it.