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Robert Steele: How Obama’s Team Melded Big Data to Raise Money & Win Votes, Defeating the “Nine Ways” and “Twelve Amigos”

Knowledge
Robert David STEELE Vivas
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TIME has provided an utterly spectacular story on how the Obama team melded big data.  As I finished the article, I could not help but wonder how much more useful the secret intelligence world would be, to so many more people, if it could do this for the rest of the world — with the $75 billion a year it spends — what the Obama team was able to do for a fraction of that price in the USA alone — as Stephen Cambone called for in 2000, neighborhood and household level granularity.  This is what I told NSA in Las Vegas in 2002; this is what I put into a US Army monograph and a book in 2002.  An Open Source Agency (OSA) as recommended by the 9/11 Commission, but under diplomatic or commercial auspices, remains the needed foundation for making intelligence (decision-support) not just relevant, but compellingly necessary to policy, acquisition, and operations.

In passing, this story helps us understand that Karl Rove did not do so badly — handicapped as he was by a party bent on self-destruction (or they would have nominated Ron Paul and an Independent or Libertarian Vice President)  — the “nine ways” with “twelve amigos” came vastly closer than anyone had a right to expect.

Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

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TIME, 7 November 2012

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In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away the single demographic group most likely to hand over cash, for a chance to dine in Hollywood with Clooney — and Obama.

So as they did with all the other data collected, stored and analyzed in the two-year drive for re-election, Obama’s top campaign aides decided to put this insight to use. They sought out an East Coast celebrity who had similar appeal among the same demographic, aiming to replicate the millions of dollars produced by the Clooney contest. “We were blessed with an overflowing menu of options, but we chose Sarah Jessica Parker,” explains a senior campaign adviser. And so the next Dinner with Barack contest was born: a chance to eat at Parker’s West Village brownstone.

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How to Raise $1 Billion

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Rickard Falkvinge: Epic Global Copyright Case Goes to US Supreme Court

Knowledge, Politics
Rickard Falkvinge

The Scary Spectre Of Perpetual IPR

Posted: 31 Oct 2012 10:33 AM PDT

Activism – Wendy Cockcroft:  The nightmare scenario of perpetual copyright approaches. The Supreme Court is hearing Kirtsaeng V Wiley, the case of an entrepreneurial Thai student who purchased his textbooks from his native land and imported them into the United States, taking advantage of the price differential. At issue is the question of whether or not you own what you buy. If Wiley wins outright, goods manufactured abroad could actually enjoy copyright protection indefinitely.

Mathematics graduate Supap Kirtsaeng was frustrated that there was such a massive difference between the prices of the textbooks he needed for his course that he arranged to import them from his native Thailand. Relatives purchased the books and sent them over. Then he realised he could make money doing this so he asked them to send more so he could sell them on eBay, making profits of over a million dollars. Wiley found out and sued.

There is a separate provision of U.S. copyright law that prohibits the importation into the United States, “without the authority of the owner of copyright,” of copies of a work “acquired outside the United States.” – Slate

This is what got Kirtsaeng into trouble. He owned what he bought, via his relatives in Thailand. As soon as they entered the country, Wiley had ownership and Kirtsaeng required a license. The law is unambiguous:

(1) Importation.—Importation into the United States, without the authority of the owner of copyright under this title, of copies or phonorecords of a work that have been acquired outside the United States is an infringement of the exclusive right to distribute copies or phonorecords under section 106, actionable under section 501. – Importation and Exportation, US Copyright Law

But so is First Sale Doctrine, which Kirtsaeng used as his defense:

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Andrea Pitasa: Hypercitizenship & New Directions in Goverance and the Law

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Prof. Andrea Pitasi

Hypercitizenship and the Management of Genetic Diversity. Sociology of Law and the Key Systemic Bifurcation Between the RING Singularity and the Neofeudal Age

Andrea Pitasi

Associate Professor at the Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti and Pescara, Italy.

Abstract

This essay is essentially theoretical and is focused on the allocative function of the legal systems to attract/reject different capitals according to their procedures to shape norms and laws. This function of the legal systems is pivotal in our times as humankind is before a systemic and evolutionary bifurcation between the heideggerian Gegnet of a strategic, high speed convergence (i.e. Singularity) among robotics, informatics, nanotechonologies and genetics (RINGs) – which is going to reshape the human life concerning its life quality styles and standards especially regarding health and environment matters- and the so called Neofeudal Scenario (NS) supported by whom the Industrial Model failed and the only way to save humankind and its environment would be a kind of trip back to a Medioeval life style inspired by slowness and austerity.

This essay provides an overview of the most important and recent international references about the two alternatives of the bifurcation and describes a potential paradigm shift inside the systemic approach to reframe the conceptual map of global change through a systemic epistemology of the sociology of law.

Source Paper Online (March 2011)  Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza – Vol. V – N. 3 – Settembre-Dicembre 2011

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Michel Bauwens: Open Knowledge Production and Exchange of Local Content in Local Languages

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Michel Bauwens

Open Knowledge: Production and Exchange of Local Content in Local Languages

Open Knowledge means a set of methodologies and principles that are related to both the distribution and the production of different knowledge works. In this context it is important to mention that the production as well as the distribution of knowledge works occurs in an open manner. The general term ‘knowledge’ is defined to include data such as historical, geographic and scientific information, content such as books, films and music, different topics such as for instance cars, plissee, nature, poetry, etc. and also general information that are produced by governmental or other administrative authorities.

There exist a number of different initiatives such as the so-called Open Knowledge Network that defend and stand up for the general protection, production and exchange of local content in local languages. The Open Knowledge Network operates as a human network in parts of Africa, South Asia and Latin America – strictly speaking the whole network is active across the South in order to collect, support, disseminate and share local knowledge. In this context it should be stressed that the Open Knowledge Network is supported by a variety of flexible information and communication technologies.

The Open Knowledge Network is designed on seven basic principles which are based on intensive and complex research. The seven principles and methodologies are the following ones:

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Berto Jongman: Kristan Wheaton on The New Human Intelligence

Crowd-Sourcing, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Berto Jongman

Two pieces .  Another view, a variation of Stefan Dedijer in 1992, “know who knows;” and Robert Steele in 1995 if not earlier, “do not send a spy where a schoolboy can go”

Top 5 Things Only Spies Used To Do (But Everyone Does Now)

#5 — Have a cover story.
#4 — Shake a tail.
#3 — Use passwords and encrypt data.
#2 — Have an agent network.
#1 — Use satellites.

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The New HUMINT?

EXTRACT:

Only an expert case officer with deep contacts can hope to be able to respond to the wide variety of requests for information.  In today's fast moving, crisis-of-the-day type world, the question becomes “Where can I find good sources of information … on this particular topic … quickly?”

Twitter to the rescue!

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Michel Bauwens: Global Commons Movement to Meet in Berlin May 2013

Economics/True Cost, Knowledge
Michel Bauwens

The global commons movement is gathering again

Submitted by George Pór

on Sat, 10/20/2012 – 16:37

After the highly successful 1st International Commons Conference, there will be a second and even larger international gathering focused on the Economics of the Commons, in Berlin, May 2013.

Organized by the Commons Strategies Group (with support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the FPH – Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme), there was a preparatory meeting in Bangkok, October 12-14. You can find a text and and series of essential questions prepared by the Commons Strategies Group for the Bangkok meeting, in our Community Knowledge Garden, and in the Commons Rising community forum, where you can engage in the conversation about them and suggest yours.

The 49 questions are organizied in the following sections:

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Jim Spoher: IBM’s Version of M4IS2 Centered on Universities

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Jim Spoher

Dr. Jim Spoher (born c. 1956) is a computer scientist leading the development of a new science of service systems, often known as Service Science, Management and Engineering.  He has been the Director of IBM Global University Programs since 2009. Between 2003 and 2009, he was the Director of Almaden Services Research with IBM at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He was a driving advocate of the Service Science, Management and Engineering initiative across companies, governments and academics. Jim's research group received IBM awards for modeling customers and mapping global service systems including performance measures, costing and pricing of complex, inter-organizational service projects, analytics and information service innovations, process improvement methods, and innovation foresight methods, amongst others.

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Jim works with service research pioneers from diverse academic disciplines and he advocates for Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Design (SSMED) as an integrative framework for global competency development, economic development, and advancement of science.  Spohrer was the Chief Technology Officer for IBM Venture Capital Relations between 2000 and 2002. He was a Distinguished Scientist in Learning Research at Apple Computer between 1989 and 1998, where he was a coinventor receiving 9 patents.  Dr. Spohrer received a Ph.D. in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Yale University in 1988. He graduated with a B.S. in Physics from MIT in 1978.

Briefing Slides:  IBM T Shaped People 20120731 v2

Phi Beta Iota:  This is one of the most intelligent useful briefings we have ever encountered.

See Also:

M4IS2

21st Century Intelligence Core References 2007-2013

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