The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This looks like an interesting attempt to develop tools for digital study skills
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The Art of Discovering Pearls Inside the Sand: How, Tools and Skills Advice from Beth Kanter
A good introductory article to content curation for organizations and non-profits. It provides good description of the purpose of content curation and of tools and key skills required.
Beth Kanter, provides lots of good resources, tools and other articles which kindly highlight and link also some of my recent content curation work.
Resourceful, informative, to-the-point. 8/10
Full article: Content Curation and the Art of Spotting the Awesome
Reading time: 5′
See also from the same author:
New Movement Aims to ‘Reset the Net’ Against Mass Surveillance
A coalition of nearly two-dozen tech companies and civil liberties groups is launching a new fight against mass internet surveillance, hoping to battle the NSA in much the same way online campaigners pushed back on bad piracy legislation in 2012.
The new coalition, organized by Fight for the Future, is planning a Reset the Net day of action on June 5, the anniversary of the date the first Edward Snowden story broke detailing the government’s PRISM program, based on documents leaked by the former NSA contractor.
“Government spies have a weakness: they can hack anybody, but they can’t hack everybody,” the organizers behind the Reset the Net movement say in their video (above). “Folks like the NSA depend on collecting insecure data from tapped fiber. They depend on our mistakes, mistakes we can fix.”
Example of true cost: corruption plus public abuse = political violence = cost to predatory capitalism.
Rise in global political violence challenges supply chains
Supply Management, 7 May 2014 | Will Green
Levels of conflict and political violence have increased in 48 countries over the past six months and created “significant challenges to supply chains”, according to a report.
Maplecroft’s biannual Conflict and Political Violence Index showed Ukraine moved 52 places to become the 35th most at risk country following its uprising and the threat of Russian intervention, while 16 countries are rated as “extreme risk”.
These include the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya, while Syria remains the country with the highest levels of conflict and political violence.
Many key growth markets feature in the “high” and “extreme” risk categories, including Colombia (11), Nigeria (15), Philippines (17), India (18), Bangladesh (21), Thailand (23), China (25), Indonesia (29) and Turkey (31).
Leverett Becomes Sixth City to Pass Anti-Drone Resolution
Here are the other five.
Leverett and Amherst, Mass., both were expected to consider resolutions. I haven't heard any news from Amherst.
The Leverett news is courtesy of Beth Adams.
I haven't seen official text, but here's some idea of what was passed, or at least what was considered for passage, in Leverett:
Town meeting in Leverett will consider a resolution calling on the federal government to end the use of drones for assassinations on foreign soil and to enact regulations on the use of the unmanned aircraft in the United States.
It would ask U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey and U.S. Rep. James McGovern to bring forward legislation “to end the practice of extrajudicial killing by armed drone aircraft” by withholding money for that purpose and “to make restitution for injuries, fatalities and environmental damage resulting from the actions of the United States government, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, allied nations and/or its private contractors.”
MapR Integrates Elasticsearch into Platform
Writer Christopher Tozzi opens his Var Guy article, “MapR, Elasticsearch Partner on Open Source Big Data Search,” with a good question: With so many Hadoop distributions out there, what makes one stand out? MapR hopes an integration with Elasticsearch will help them with that. The move brings to MapR, as the companies put it, “a scalable, distributed architecture to quickly perform search and discovery across tremendous amounts of information.” They report that several high-profile clients are already using the integrated platform.
Tozzi concludes with an interesting observation:
“From the channel perspective, the most important part of this story is about the open source Hadoop Big Data world becoming an even more diverse ecosystem where solutions depend on collaboration between a variety of independent parties. Companies such as MapR have been repackaging the core Hadoop code and distributing it in value-added, enterprise-ready form for some time, but Elasticsearch integration into MapR is a sign that Hadoop distributions also need to incorporate other open source Big Data technologies, which they do not build themselves, to maximize usability for the enterprise.”
It will be interesting to see how that need plays out throughout the field. MapR is headquartered in San Jose, California, and was launched in 2009. Formed in 2012, Elasticsearch is based in Amsterdam. Both Hadoop-happy companies maintain offices around the world, and each proudly counts some hefty organizations among their customers.
Cynthia Murrell, May 07, 2014
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There are two Justices that I think never should have been put on the Supreme Court, and whose behavior once on the court in my view constitutes unacceptable ideological hackery. This essay make the case on one of them.
Scalia’s Delusional Hackery: From ‘Originalism” to Shilling for the Tea Party
PAUL ROSENBERG – Salon
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made what UC Berkeley law professor Dan Farber called ‘a cringeworthy error” last week: he got the meaning of an opinion he cited exactly backward. Worse still – the opinion he misread was his own. As Farber explained:
