The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Weave: Participatory Process Design Guide
What would the ideal strategic planning engagement look like?
The Weave provides guidance for sustainability practitioners wishing to more deeply engage people in creating their sustainable future
Via ddrrnt, David Hodgson
YouTube (2:52) The Union: the business behind getting high
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YouTube (2:05:19) THE BEST MARIJUANA SPEECH EVER! (MARC EMERY)
YouTube (21:32) The War on Drugs is A Epic Failure!
Phi Beta Iota: The decriminalization of marijuana is the one ace left in the Obama Administration's scattered desk of cards.
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Very interesting….from the summary statement:
Our point is that social networks are today’s version of AOL and CompuServe, not the Web and SMTP email—a service model that’s in conflict with the open, standards-based Internet. Furthermore,even though they’ve evolved to support mobile devices, today’s social services were designed for the era of PC-based Web browsers, not handheld smartphone apps.
If you’re thinking, “There must be a better way,” you’re right. In this report we’ll examine some groundbreaking research aimed at bringing openness to social networking on mobile devices.
Phi Beta Iota: Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all “dead men walking.” They have failed to make the leap to the mix of open source everything and creating intelligence (decision-support) with integrity, settling instead for information overload with no integrity.
PDF: Musubi Brings Openness to Mobile Social Networking
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Reciprocity, Not Reward, Drives Decision to Cooperate
A new study suggests the decision to cooperate with others comes from someone's mood and his or her history of cooperation.
Via Nicholas Ripley
Phi Beta Iota: Cultural context, not organizational design, is the key factor.
Richly deserving of careful attention.
The Three Traditional Sectors
Businesses create and distribute goods and services that enhance our quality of life, promote growth, and generate prosperity. They spur innovation, reward entrepreneurial effort, provide a return on investment and constantly improve their performance responding to market feedbacks. They draw on the skills, effort and ingenuity of individual workers, and share with them the economic value created by the enterprise.
Non-profit organizations give us ways to celebrate, build and protect the many human values that give rise to healthy, thriving communities. They have worked to ensure that all people have adequate necessities of life, including clean air, water, food and shelter; an equitable share of wealth and resources; and opportunity to develop their full physical, mental and spiritual potential. They create spaces to celebrate the joy of culture and artistic expression, and reveal opportunities for generosity. They have helped protect the environment, working to ensure that human capacities, technologies and organizations sustain and support, not systemically alter, degrade or destroy, the Earth, its diversity of life or the ecological systems that support life. They remind us that many species share this planet and depend on each other, and that humanity must not only care for itself, but must steward an entire world.
Continue reading “Michel Bauwens: The Emerging Fourth Sector”
Dave Winer was one of the first bloggers, creator of ThinkTank (early outlining program for Apple II), creator of early blogging software, creator of RSS. So it's worth paying attention to his infotention tools — Howard
“My name is Dave Winer. When I designed Radio2, I aimed to create the minimal blogging tool, one that did the least possible and still was useful. Simple yet useful, and usable.
It's for short-form blogging, the kind of stuff we do in Twitter. You're looking at a web page, and think “I want to remember this, or share this.” One click on the bookmarklet, quick — you're still in the flow of what you were doing.
The goal was to create something that has the ease of Twitter, with the open potential of blogging. There are tradeoffs, some things that Twitter will always do better, because they are an all-in-one, centralized system. But there are also many things Radio2 can do that Twitter can't, because we aren't protecting a business model.”
Outlines the two reasons Steele ran for President (to put all the best non-partisan ideas in one place, at http://www.bigbatusa.org) and to connect with an evaluate all of the other Presidential candidates. Steele goes on to outline precisely what needs to happen in the way of an Electoral Reform Summit and a non-negotiable national demand for the Electoral Reform Act of 2012–the only real possibility for a constructive non-violent restoration of democracy in the USA–and thence elsewhere. We are living a lie, suffocated by the two-party tyranny that has sold out the birthright of every citizen. This is not rocket science — all it demands is citizens with intelligence and integrity coming together around the obvious….open source everything, starting with US politics.
Tags: democracy Republic Constitution tyranny transparency truth toxicity theft trust
YouTube LINK: http://youtu.be/nL2f0qr4IJk
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YouTube (4:10) The Open Source Everythinig Manifesto: Transparency, Truth & Trust
