Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1646 – Public Intelligence Blog

2014/01/22

Berto Jongman: New Patent Mapping Systems Helps Find Innovation Pathways — Doing the Wrong Thing Righter

New patent mapping system helps find innovation pathways

What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited research funds? What technology areas are a company’s competitors pursuing?

To help answer those questions, researchers, policy-makers and R&D directors study patent maps, which provide a visual representation of where universities, companies and other organizations are protecting intellectual property produced by their research. But finding real trends in these maps can be difficult because categories with large numbers of patents — pharmaceuticals, for instance — are usually treated the same as areas with few patents.

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2014/01/22

Jean Lievins: YouTube (4:20) Positive Money – 3 Changes to Banking Fix the Economy, Eliminate Debt

Commerce, Corruption, Government

Jan 16, 2014

If someone told you that a mountain of personal debt could be cleared via 3 simple changes to the way that money and banking works, would you like to know how? Would you like to see a more stable economy, with more jobs, less personal and government debt? Would you like to see money created free of debt and going into the real economy and support businesses, instead of getting trapped in financial and property markets?
This video explains how 3 simple changes to the way that money and banking works would make all this (and much more) possible.

Positive Money is a not-for-profit research and campaign group. They work to raise awareness of the connections between our current monetary and banking system and the serious social, economic and ecological problems that face the UK and the world today. In particular they focus on the role of banks in creating the nation's money supply through the accounting process they use when they make loans – an aspect of banking which is poorly understood. Positive Money believe these fundamental flaws are at the root of – or a major contributor to – problems of poverty, excessive debt, growing inequality and environmental degradation. For more information, please visit: http://www.positivemoney.org/
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Animation by Henry Edmonds – http://www.heanimation.com
Voiceover thanks to Dr Bramwell – http://www.drbramwell.com/showreels/

2014/01/22

Robin Good: Beyond Search to Content Curation Tools — 21 Evaluation Criteria

IO Tools

Content Curation Tools Buyer's Guide: 21 Criteria To Identify Your Ideal One

From www.masternewmedia.org – January 21, 6:11 PM

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.

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2014/01/222014/01/22

Philip Giraldi: Why We Fight – Because It Pays Well

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Why We Fight – Because it pays well

The most decorated Marine in the history of the Corps Major General Smedley Butler once wrote that “War is a racket.” That was in 1935. If only he could see it now. The cash flow enabling the global war on terror which was launched in 2001 is astonishing, numbers that are too large to even imagine. Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz has estimated that the total cost of Iraq alone will exceed $5 trillion when all the borrowed money and legacy expenses for 30,000 wounded soldiers are finally paid off. And Iraq is only one part of the enormous shift in national resources that has taken place over the past twelve years.

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2014/01/222014/01/22

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source and Ontopia Tool

IO Tools

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:

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Berto Jongman: Atrocities, Cyber, War 1.4

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

ATROCITIES: risks of state-led mass killing

AUSTRALIA: Terrorists taking cut of millions in drug money

BIG DATA: predictive algorythms and virtues of transparancy

CAR: CAR risks spiralling into genocide

CHINA: 37,000 Elite Offshore Accounts Outed, China Reacts to Protect Them and Censor the Story

CHINA: How Its Leader — Now the World's Most Powerful Man — Thinks

Noting that all of China's problems were related to each other and could not be tackled piecemeal, he declared that the “people-centered” reforms he was introducing would be “comprehensive economic, political, social and ecological” — bolstered by “Party building.”

CHINA: Where Will It Invest Hundreds of Billions?

CIA: Rethinking the Criterion for Assessing Cia-targeted Killings: Drones, Proportionality and Jus Ad Vim

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2014/01/222014/01/21

David Swanson: The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism

By Abba A. Solomon and Norman Solomon

Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish organization under the banner “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace.” By now J Street is able to be a partial counterweight to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The contrast between the two U.S. groups is sometimes stark. J Street applauds diplomacy with Iran, while AIPAC works to undermine it. J Street encourages U.S. support for “the peace process” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, while AIPAC opposes any meaningful Israeli concessions. In the pressure cooker of Washington politics, J Street’s emergence has been mostly positive. But what does its motto “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” really mean?

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