The map does not copy but is worth a look. Anonymity is not at all assured, but the concept is important.
Journal: US Research & Development in the Toilet
03 Economy, 05 Energy, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, GovernmentU.S. innovation: On the skids
Technologists look to a new White House to reverse decade-long slide in R&D
By Gary Anthes, ComputerWorld, October 21, 2008
By most measures, the U.S. is in a decade-long decline in global technological competitiveness. The reasons are many and complex, but central among them is the country's retreat from long-term basic research in science and technology, coupled with a surge in R&D by countries such as China.
Tip of the Hat to Lynn Wheeler at LinkedIn.
Phi Beta Iota: This ties in perfectly with US secret intelligence fraud, waste, and abuse (hand-outs to corporations for vapor-ware, see our quick study 2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam); and also with Chuck Spinney's long-standing concerns about the plans-reality mismatch and the criminal insanity of raising two generations of engineers who know nothing but “government specification cost plus” production.
Journal: Open Mobile, Open Spectrum, Open Web
Augmented Reality, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Geospatial, Methods & Process, Mobile, Real Time, Reform, Standards, Strategy, Technologies, Tools
Openmoko™ – Open. Mobile. Free.
Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an open source software stack. Openmoko is currently selling the Neo FreeRunner phone to advanced users and will start selling it to the general public as soon as the software is more developed.
Phi Beta Iota: We've had our say on “Open Everything” GNOMEDEX and again at “Open Everything” UNICEF, and it just keeps getting better and better. The cell phone is the principle device for Hacking Humanity, in part because it enables micro-everything including directed micro-giving and micro-trading with Open Money.
Below are two related items:
Updated Chart on Mobile Phone Applications (by sunset eastern)
Trip Report from Burning Man's Open Cellular Network
EXCERPT: Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that's revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots. It uses VoIP yet works with existing cell phones. It has pedigreed founders. Best of all, it is part of the sex, drugs and art collectively known as Burning Man. Where do you want me to begin?
The Open Source Subnet
Cell towers that blend vs. those that offend
“We make GSM look like a wireless access point. We make it that simple,” describes one of the project's three founders, Glenn Edens. The technology starts with the “they-said-it-couldn't-be-done” open source software, OpenBTS.
Journal: The Socialization of Products & Services
03 Economy, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, IO MappingThe Socialization of Products & Services
After writing a piece on The Memetic Web & The Internet of Products several weeks ago, I started to think more about the implications products and services would have on the Attention Economy and why the notion of “social” seems to be so often misconstrued in the larger context of the marketing and media worlds.
We talk a lot about social in terms of things like corporate communications, CRM, content development and to a greater extent, sharing behaviors – all of which are great, mind you – but I think what we don’t talk about enough or even build into our subsequent strategies and executions is the very thread of what social is in an empathic and evolutionary sense… Which is to do and propagate good.
Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.
Phi Beta Iota: This is a very–very–thoughtful and deep blog posting, and the fact that Pierre Levy, one of the twelve apostles of Collective Intelligence, recommends it, makes it doubly important. Written by Guenther Sonnenfeld, it includes a short video of Alex Bogusky sharing important ideas. It includes references to Ray Kurzweil, technology as an off-shoot of biology, and the emerging nature of socio-economic ecosystems in which trust is the blood. All the kind of stuff our leaders–if we had any–should be embracing.
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| 2 | TDWI.org | No | Rachel Delacour |
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| Data Administration Newsletter | No | Bruce Bond-Myatt | |
| iWareLogic Oracle (BI & EBS) | No | Abhishek Sharma | |
| MAIA Intelligence Blog | Yes | Dhiren Gala | |
| Oracle BI Blog | No | Taher Hakami | |
| Prologica Forums—Dashboards Plus | No | Sree Jallipalli | |
| Ralph Kimball | Yes | Steve Fiske | |
| Spagobi the Open Source Business Intel Suite | Yes | Gabriele Ruffatti | |
| Visual Business Intelligence | No | Hrvoje Smolić |
Tip of the Hat to the listed respondents at LinkedIn Business Intelligence Group.
Journal: Consortium Seeking Multilingual Web Standards
Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Earth Intelligence, Standards
Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief
Six months into his new job, Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium has his work cut out
The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. And Jeffery Jaffe – an IT industry veteran who held prominent positions at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), IBM, and more recently at Novell – as its CEO not only oversees the W3C's largest project in progress ( HTML5 standards group) but is also trying to ensure that the Consortium sharpens its focus on multilingual web standards for countries like India.
Tip of the Hat to Marjorie M K Hlava at LinkedIn.
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Journal: Wal-Mart Wants to Screw 1.5 Million Women (Again, This Time in Front of the Supreme Court)
03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block female employees from suing on behalf of as many as 1.5 million women in what would be the largest gender-bias suit against a private employer in U.S. history.
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The company agreed in 2008 to pay as much as $640 million to settle 63 federal and state class actions claiming the company cheated hourly workers and forced them to work through breaks.
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The case is Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes.
Tip of the Hat to Monica Nixon at LinkedIn.
WAL-MART–Proud to be the Enron of the Retail Industry.
Review: Wal-Mart–The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Review: An Atlas of Poverty in America–One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003
Review: Big-Box Swindle–The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses
Review: No Logo–No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (Paperback)
Review: The Global Class War –How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win it Back (Hardcover)
Review: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order (Paperback)
Review: Nobodies–Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Review: Screwed–The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It
Review: The People’s Business–Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy The People’s Business: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy
