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Protesters desecrate American flag in Phoenix

Posted: Aug 04, 2010 10:57 PM EDT <em>Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10:57 PM EST</em> Updated: Aug 12, 2010 4:36 PM EDT <em>Thursday, August 12, 2010 4:36 PM EST</em>

KOLD News 13 Videos (from August)

PHOENIX, AZ (KOLD) – New video has surfaced from last week's SB-1070 protest that brought people to Phoenix from across the country, including immigrant-rights activists bused in from California.

The video shows those activists desecrating the American flag. They used spray paint to write, “deport Arpaio” and “impeach Brewer.”

There's also a toilet seat on the stars. They displayed the desecrated U.S. Flag and Arizona flag while a man sang the national anthem.

Below the line: Suspected “Urban Myth” email chain mail with photo that is now circulating among US troops. Note that is has taken two months for this to get up to speed. We would not be surprised to find the Koch Brothers behind this as part of their Tea Party mobilization and “anonymous” Information Operations campaign toward the public.

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2010/10/11

Journal: Social Capital–Doing Good AND Making Money

03 Economy, 11 Society, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Methods & Process, Non-Governmental

DuckDuckGo on Social Capital

UpTake Institute October 11, 2010

There are some problems that neither pure capitalism nor charity can solve. Social capital is a new way of looking at solving those problems. This month, people from all over the world came to SOCAP10 in San Francisco to talk about social capital, and put their money where their mouths are.

Over the next several days we’ll be posting stories about companies that have what is called a “triple bottom line” — where they measure results not just in profit, but also in the business impact on people and the planet.

Our first video focuses on just what the social capital movement is about. We talk with people who run social capital companies such as Firefox maker Mozilla, people who are seeking funding for their businesses, and journalists who are covering the social capital movement.

Link to story and video

Tip of the Hat to Leif Utne at LinkedIn.

Review (Guest): Cognitive Surplus–Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny

Review: The Hidden Wealth of Nations

Review: The Monk and the Riddle–The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

2010/10/112010/10/11

Journal: RYP thinks news is the killer app

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), Media, Methods & Process, Real Time

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The Media Equation

A Vanishing Journalistic Divide

By DAVID CARR

Published: October 10, 2010

If you were going to pick an epicenter for mainstream media, The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz would not be a bad place to land. With his running scorecard on Beltway journalists, his interviews of other scorekeepers on his “Reliable Sources” show on CNN, and his ceaseless fascination with network news, Mr. Kurtz embodied the folkways of the traditional press.

Until last week, when he announced he was leaving his privileged perch to become the Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast, a two-year-old toddler of the new digital press conceived by Tina Brown and owned by IAC, run by Barry Diller. Mr. Kurtz’s lane change evinced gasps reminiscent of when Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

On the heels of decisions by Howard Fineman of Newsweek and Peter Goodman of The New York Times to go to The Huffington Post, it would seem like a bit of a tipping point.

Read balance of this thorough article…

Phi Beta Iota: Robert has it half right–news you can use. The value has shifted from the T in IT to the I in IT. We told NSA this in Las Vegas in 2000, but the money is in the T not the I, so they ignored us. Public Intelligence about everything is about to emerge as the new arbiter of value. True cost will be known, transparency will expose corruption as well as waste, and there will be, as our friend and mentor Alvin Toffler has written, a PowerShift.

2010/10/112010/10/12

Worth a Look: Hugely Inflamatory Slam on US Muslim Tax-Deductible Fund-Raising for Hamas and Hezbollah

08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, Civil Society, Non-Governmental

Ladies and Gentlemen:

1. Invite your attention the video at the YouTube link in the message below.

2. Just to be clear:

a. I cannot tell you precisely who made the video.

b. I cannot tell definitively whether or not it is true in whole or in part..

c. To me, it looks like it ((COULD)) be a product of selective editing with individual items extracted from multiple source and reassembled, without context, to suggest conclusions supporting somebody's predetermined viewpoint. But that does not necessarily mean that it is not wholly or partially true.

d. Invite your special attention to the credits at the very end — about 13:06 and beyond. If Steven Emerson and the Investigativer Project are involved with this video, that would increase its credibility in my eyes.

e. All foregoing said, I am inclined to believe video and message are more true than not.

3. For some of you addees, I think this is relatively local for if I understand east Florida geography.

Busted – Orlando Mosque Finances Hamas Fundraiser

Phi Beta Iota: The above YouTube is just under 14 minutes and well-worth watching. We offer several observations:

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2010/10/09

Journal: The Activist Power of the Internet

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, IO Mapping, IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Peace Intelligence

About 3 hours ago Sarah Kessler 9

Why Social Media Is Reinventing Activism

The argument that social media fosters feel-good clicking rather than actual change, began long before Malcolm Gladwell brought it up in the New Yorker — long enough to generate its own derogatory term. “Slacktivism,” as defined by Urban Dictionary, is “the act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem.”

If you only measure donations, social media is no champion. The national chapter of the Red Cross, for instance, has 208,500 “likes” on Facebook, more than 200,000 followers on Twitter, and a thriving blog. But according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, online donations accounted for just 3.6% of private donations made to the organization in 2009.

But social good is a movement still in its infancy. Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006. Let’s give the tools a little while to grow up before we start judging them.

All of that virtual liking, following, joining, signing, forwarding, and, yes, clicking, has a lot of potential to grow into big change. Here’s why:

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Phi Beta Iota: Complementary observations are made by Steven Denning in his featured post, Reference: The Revolution IS Being Tweeted.