Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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5 Key Issues Impacting the Future of Facebook

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice
Venessa Miemis

As part of the Future of Facebook Project and Open Foresight process, we’re asking the crowd for their opinions and forecasts on the same 15 questions we’ve asked our interviewees. Questions are posted on Quora, but can also be answered here on the blog or on our Facebook Page.

Here are some interesting and thought-provoking answers we’ve seen so far. We’ll be integrating our favorites into the final video series, so add your thoughts and join us as producers of the future!

1. Social Graph & Sentiment Data Usage  ..  2. Partnerships with Brands  ..  3. Higher Education  ..  4. Signal to Noise Ratio  ..   5. How We See Ourselves and the World

Add your views to the Future of Facebook Project topic on Quora!

Check out our kickstarter video here

Thanks to Producers Sean Park, Dr. William Ward, and Debra Farber, and to all supporters of the Future of Facebook Project!

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See Also:

2010 Imagining the Internet

2008 Future of the Internet

2008 Future of the Internet Economy

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Seth Godin: worst moments are your best opportunity

Cultural Intelligence
Seth Godin Home

The worst moments are your best opportunity

That's how we judge you and how we remember you.

You are presumed to be showing us your real self when you are on deadline, have a headache, are facing a customer service meltdown, haven't had a good night's sleep, are facing an ethical dilemma, are momentarily in power, are caught doing something when you thought no one else was looking, are irritable, have the opportunity to extract revenge, are losing a competition or are truly overwhelmed.

What a great opportunity to tell the story you'd like us to hear about you.

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Libya Internet Flatlines–Spurs Autonomous Internet

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Government, Peace Intelligence, Technologies

Libya Internet is down again, according to Google tool

March 4, 2011 | 10:22 am  Los Angeles Times

Libya-traffic

Libya has shut off the Internet again, according to a Google monitoring tool.

As of about 8 a.m. PST Thursday (or 6 p.m. in Tripoli, Libya's capital), the nation's Internet traffic began to flatline, and has been at zero since, says Google's Transparency Report.

Phi Beta Iota: While the world watches Libya, the USA is in the process of making the Internet a monopoly that can charge by the application instead of by the packet.  In brief, Internet “neutrality” is a  fraud in the USA, and the FCC is a front for the very large ISP's just as the Federal Reserve is a front for the private banks.  Autonomous Internet is something that matters everywhere, including especially the USA.

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Autonomous Internet (55)

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Crisis Mapping Libya: This Is No Haiti…

05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Mobile, Peace Intelligence, Policies, Real Time
Michael Ostrolenk Recommends...

Crisis Mapping Libya: This is No Haiti

Patrick Meier

March 4, 2011 at 8:14 am

We activated the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) on March 1st and quickly launched a Crisis Map of Libya to support humanitarian preparedness opera-tions. This is the largest deployment of the Task Force since it was formed at the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping in Boston (ICCM 2010). I'm amazed at how far we've come since the response to the Haiti earthquake.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been championing Open Everything since 1988, each year growing from our first realization that Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) was urgently needed to bring government back to accountability, legitimacy, and sanity through transparency.  Below are two graphics, two briefings and two chapters that summarize our recent work in this area.  Here we want to emphazize the emergence of the Autonomous Internet Road Map and the fact that the Crisis Mapping initiative is a very strong manifestation of the power of public intelligence in the public interest.

See Also:

Graphic: Open Everything

Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale

2010 M4IS2 Briefing for South America — 2010 M4IS2 Presentacion por Sur America (ANEPE Chile)

2010 The Ultimate Hack Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Chapter for Counter-Terrorism Book Out of Denmark)

2007 Open Everything: We Won, Let’s Self-Govern

Seven Answers–Robert Steele in Rome

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Field to Fork: Tracking produce back to farmers

01 Agriculture, Technologies, Tools, True Cost

Harvestmark offers a mobile phone application and website that allows consumers to trace their food back to the farmers who grew it.  How much do we know about what is on our plate, and how easy is it to trace its source?

Source BBC

Phi Beta Iota: This is HUGE because it enables “true cost” information for each individual product to be posted on the web and instantly available to the smart phone user (the billion that buy most of the toxic products).  In many ways, this one capability marks the beginning of the integration of the Internet of people, the Internet of things, and the Internet of facts.

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True Cost Wiki

Sourcemap.org

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Autonomous Internet: 4chan and anonymnity

Autonomous Internet, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence
Jon Lebkowsky Bio

4chan and anonymity

Marc Savlov interviewed me for this article in the Austin Chronicle, generally about anonymity on the Internet and specifically about 4chan. I hope I made the point that anonymity is a wicked problem (what is identity, anyway?), and that it’s sometimes a solution (as in police states, viva Tor).

Coincidentally I had interviewed the phenomenal Tom Jennings yesterday for Plutopia News Network, and when he saw the Chronicle article, he sent this link to to a paper he’d written about 4chan.

“The effect of the code mechanisms chosen by 4chan encloses a robust and stable culture of a form and shape not possible in more finely controlled environments, and that code is deceptively simple.”

Christopher Poole, aka Moot, creator of 4chan, will deliver a keynote at 2pm Sunday, March 13, at SXSW Interactive.

noble gold