The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Is information physical? And what does that mean?
Massimo Pigliucci
Rationally Speaking
Posted: Jan 24, 2014
 Massimo Pigliucci |
I’ve been reading for a while now Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, a fascinating tour through cutting edge theoretical physics, led by someone with a physics background and a healthy (I think) dose of skepticism about the latest declarations from string theorists and the like.
Curate Your Own Wiki-Guide with the Wikipedia Book Create Tool
Few people know that it is actually possible to curate Wikipedia content into custom print books or PDF / OpenDocument ebooks that contain exactly the content you want in the order you specify.
Once you are logged into Wikipedia you simply activate the Book Creator Tool and then, from that moment on, everytime you visit a Wikipedia page you can click and add it to your curated Wiki-Book.
There is also a dedicated wiki page where you can manage the pages you have collected and you can reorganized and sort them any way you want, eliminating the pages you don't need.
Continue reading “Robin Good: Curate Your Own Wiki-Guide with the Wikipedia Book Create Tool”
Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information
Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all:
“Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of jobs, does not have its own value-based imperative. The power structure is very selective about what this technology can access so as to keep the power in its concentrating corporate and governmental hands. For an example, you need only look to how franticly government agencies react when whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden tear aside the curtains and reveal widespread mischief or criminal activity.
Consider a sample of what a selective information age keeps away from our fingertips, away from the Cloud, and away from your smartphones:
Continue reading “Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions”
Content Curation Tools Buyer's Guide: 21 Criteria To Identify Your Ideal One
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Nonetheless we are just at the beginning of a new era, in which content curation will be as important as search, there is already an apparent abundance of content curation tools of all kinds.
Evaluating which content curation tool to use may not be such an easy task. As you probably know there are literally hundreds of content curation tools out there, and many seem to be just clones of each other, leaving the novice curator in doubt as to what are the real differences between each one.
Continue reading “Robin Good: Beyond Search to Content Curation Tools — 21 Evaluation Criteria”
Open Source and a New Look for Ontopia
If you are thinking about building applications based on topic maps and do not feel like shelling out money for proprietary software, then do not look any further than Ontopia! Ontopia is an open source tools suite with features such as an ontology designer, a full-featured query language; web services points, database storage, and an instance data editor. There are many more powerful tools available with Ontopia outlined here.
Ontopia has been an on-going project in the open source community for over a decade and has an interesting history:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source and Ontopia Tool”
The number crunch: Will Big Data transform your life – or make it a misery?
The age of Big Data is upon us. Fuelled by an incendiary mix of overblown claims and dire warnings, the public debate over the handling and exploitation of digital information on an astronomically large scale has been framed in stark terms: on one side are transformative forces that could immeasurably improve the human condition; on the other, powers so subversive and toxic that a catastrophic erosion of fundamental liberties looks inevitable.
Wages For Facebook? Maybe It’s Not So Crazy
Posted: 20 Jan 2014 03:00 AM PST
Swarm Economy – Zacqary Adam Green: On the one hand, the “Wages for Facebook” manifesto currently sweeping the web was never meant to be taken literally.
The idea that a free social networking service should pay its users for their “labor” is, at face value, ridiculous. But underneath the sensational language, there’s something to this notion of Facebook as an exploiter.
The premise of the boisterous, all-caps manifesto is laid out in its first paragraph:
Continue reading “Rickard Falkvinge: Facebook to Pay Users?”
