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Bellingcat, for and by citizen investigative journalists

Bellingcat is a website founded by Brown Moses.

Bellingcat will bring together both critically acclaimed and emerging citizen investigative journalists using open source information to investigate, collaborate, and report on worldwide issues that are being underreported and ignored.

Open source information, which is information freely available to anyone through the Internet—think YouTube, Google Maps, Reddit—has made it possible for ANYONE to gather information and source others, through social media networks. Think the Syrian Civil War. Think the Arab Spring.

2014/07/262014/07/25

Stephen E. Arnold: Could Microsoft’s Machine Learning in the Cloud Help Clean Up Legacy Big Data?

Advanced Cyber/IO

Microsoft Puts Machine Learning in the Cloud

Machine learning is ascending to the cloud. The Register asks, “Do Data Centers Dream of Electric Sheep? Microsoft Announces Machine Learning Cloud.” As competition in the world of SaaS and remote hosting continues to escalate, this move may set Microsoft ahead of Amazon and Google (for now). Our question—will this progress rub off on Bing? One can hope.

Writer Jack Clark tells us:

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2014/07/252014/07/24

Sepp Hasslberger: goTenna radio augments cellular

Advanced Cyber/IO

For those who venture into areas that have scarce cell pone coverage … goTenna will enable direct p2p messaging beyond the reach of a cell tower (and when communications are down for any reason). Expected to be available later this year. Can be pre-ordered at half price.

How goTenna will enable smart-phone off-line direct messaging by radio transmission

2014/07/252014/07/24

Robert Steele: WIRED on London’s Amoral Tech Elite

Commerce, Ethics, IO Impotency

I completely endorse this view, never mind that the author cites me as one of three who maintain the public will no longer stand for global inequality. I have long said that we in the USA have erred in substituting technology for thinking, and I have long felt that the intelligence profession has lost touch with ethics, humanity, and purpose. Open Source Everything (OSE) is about transparency, truth, and trust — not to be found among most technologists, none of whom have a clue what “true cost economics” actually means. Kudos to WIRED for nailing the naked tech Emperor to the wall by his foreskin.

London's ‘amoral' tech elite is driving inequality

London's tech elite resides uncomfortably among some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the UK. Technology is inherently political, whether we are looking at privacy issues, convoluted tax arrangements or immigration exemptions, but many entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic seem to operate in an amoral space, where optimisation, investment and exit strategies trump humility, equality and — according to campaigner and journalist Kirsty Styles — even right and wrong.

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2014/07/232014/07/22

Robin Good: Blinkist Non-Fiction Book Summaries and Key Insights

IO Tools

Curated Summaries and Key Insights from Best Non-Fiction Books: Blinkist

Blinkist offers non-fictions book summaries that allow you to get key insights from any book in less than 15 minutes.

“Blinks are powerful bites of insight from outstanding nonfiction. You can read a blink in less than two minutes…”

Each book summary is made up of about eight blinks. These are intended as a beginning of a self-driven path toward learning, rather than a replacement for reading full books.

Blinks are all manually handwritten and can be easily accessed and read on any type of device and screen size. A great example of how skilled curation of existing content can not only provide a useful and in-demand service, but make it sustainable too.

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2014/07/212014/07/21

Owl: Zionist Loaded MH17 with Infected Cadavers — Did Putin Prevent Bio-War? US Complicit with Zionists? Berto Jongman References & Wayne Madsen Latest

02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence

NEW (Repeated in Reference Section):

NEW: What We Don’t Know About Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 . . .

NEW: Downed Airliner: Fake Audio Tape Shows US-Backed Hit to Frame Russia

NEW: Wayne Madsen MH-17: Beware of the «Chameleon»

Did Putin Prevent Israeli-Originated World War Z?

Long comment and multiple additional references below the fold. All evidence points to Israeli false flag and Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior collaboration in shooting down “pigeon,” with the full active complicity of the US Government particularly CIA and the Department of State. Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics!

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2014/07/202014/07/19

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Implodes, Yahoo & Google Both is Jeopardy

IO Impotency

What Most Search Vendors Cannot Pull Off

I recently submitted an Information Today column that reported about Antidot’s tactical play to enter the US market. One of the fact checkers for the write up alerted me that most of the companies I identified were unknown to US readers. Test yourself. How many of these firms do you recognize? How many of them provide information retrieval services?

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