The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Congress is sooooooo dirty.
Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
Steve Kroft reports that members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.
American Materialism: The Elephant in the Middle of the Room
Our money issues are merely symptomatic. At issue is our collective karma about right use of power, which gets expressed through the way we use our resources.
Material wealth is not the origin of our power as a nation. But we think it is. That is the problem.
The Unsung Intelligence of Life's Web
The recent passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs elicited a host of public tributes attesting to his genius and highlighted how much we revere our gadgets and our smart communications technology. But it got me thinking about how we appraise our own engineering acumen in comparison with the engineering acumen of Nature.
Saturday's global rally in over 600 towns and cities worldwide was a momentous event. A month ago, the Occupy Wall Street movement managed to pierce the veil of the matrix. The puncture has now become an unsealable rip in the fabric of Empire. Gas is escaping rapidly from the balloon.
We are seeing the inception of a global insurrection that will not end until the dominant system is overthrown and replaced through a planetary metamorphosis.
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The technical genius of humanity needs to be redirected from creating state-of-the-art video games and stock trading programs to strengthening natural resilience, building self-sufficient local communities that grow their own food, and launching social technologies that support collaborative decision-making and nonviolent communication.
Phi Beta Iota: All three of these contributions are remarkable and merit a full reading.
YouTube Library
Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies [6:09]
Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 1) [9:59]
Creating a Critical Society – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 2) [4:49]
Determining Site Credibility – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 3)
TED: Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration (19:34)
Selected Books on Thinking by Howard Rheingold
Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (Forthcoming March 2012)
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002)
Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (1986)
Howard Rheingold Short Pieces
Howard Rheingold: 10 Online Tools for Better Focus
Howard Rheingold: Mindfulness for Executives
Howard Rheingold: Finding Credible Social Information & Crap Detection
Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network
Howard Rheingold: News Filters for the Future – Technical Services or Human Networks?
Howard Rheingold: Infotention Skills + Citizen Intel RECAP
Worth a Look: Pierre Levy Interviewed by Howard Rheingold on Collective Intelligence
A slice of life in my virtual community
Below the Line: Full Text Article and More Links
Continue reading “Howard Rheingold: Crap Detection & Critical Thinking”
Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content & Social Structure
(PDF DOWNLOAD) “A task of primary importance for social network users is to decide whose updates to subscribe to in order to maximize the relevance, credibility, and quality of the information received. To address this problem, we conducted an experiment designed to measure the extent to which different factors in online
social networks affect both explicit and implicit judgments of credibility. The results of the study indicate that both the topical content of information sources and social network structure affect source credibility. Based on these results, we designed a novel method of automatically identifying and ranking social network users according to their relevance and expertise for a given topic. We performed empirical studies to compare a
variety of alternative ranking algorithms and a proprietary service provided by a commercial website specifically designed for the same purpose. Our findings show a great potential for automatically identifying and ranking credible users for any given topic.”
Phi Beta Iota: A lot of math–and not enough emphasis on bridging out of the online networks and into human direct contact. Still, a good demonstration of why social networks matter as a new level of citation analytics.
See Also:
Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection
The “Teflon” Argument: Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age by Facilitating International Cooperation on Open-Source Science Projects
The potential uses for open-source collaborations are limited only by human creativity and ingenuity.
In other words, Open-Source Intelligence is open-ended! No one can possibly predict the upward limits of benefits that can come from it. Clearly governance is just one use for collaborative networks of Applied, Collaborative Open-Source Human Intelligence.
Open-source governance should be thought of as the key to opening the door to all of the other open-source possibilities: medical research, education, basic science, and solving other technological problems: advancing science by sharing every new piece of the puzzle with other researchers. It could lead to major discoveries.
Tribal management often involves power struggles. One thing that's been shown again and again–subjugating another tribe, taking it over–it almost never works. It can take hundreds of years before the two tribes get into sync, if ever.
On the other hand, granting independence to a rising tribe, letting them go–this is harder to swallow but it generally leads to a quick and beneficial relationship between the two new groups.
When Atari was struggling after it was acquired by Warner, many top programmers left, some to start companies like Activision. Activision, ironically, was one of the bright spots for Atari after that. The passion and creativity of the nascent group was exactly what the original group needed.
Or consider the excellent relationship that the UK has with both the United States and India. In both cases, the wars of independence weren't as nearly brutal or as drawn out as they could have been.
While conventional views of power and authority seem to indicate that you should co-opt and capture other tribes, you can often achieve more by freeing your own people to maximize their vision alongside yours.
