The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
El Correo de las Indias English edition
The “Sharing Economy,” the “economy of the commons,” deserves and needs a point of reference equivalent to the large institutions of European social theory.
Via GAIA: Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration
Production, not consumption; Economics of the Commons, not Sharing Economics
For a “Somewhere School of Sharing Economics”
See Also:
THE MOMENTOUS LEAP
Spiral Dynamics in Action:
Deciphering the Master Code in the Age of Complexity, Collaboration and Emergence. A Functional, Integral Pathway
to a Sustainable Future
13th Annual SDi Confab
September 6-9, 2012
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Continue reading “Event: 6-9 Sep Dallas TX Spiral Dynamics for Age of Complexity”
The Strange Case of Phil Schneider
I don't have the time needed or deserved so I will publish a series of youtube lectures, many are available by Phil Schneider.
Forgotten “Accidented” UFO WhistleBlower Touches Too Close
EXTRACT:
This is where the issue of Phil Schneider comes in. He is a UFO whistleblower who spent his short life saying what was, when he said it, seemed outlandish. We are now putting so many of his 30 year old technologies into use, so many are now public or at least to the advanced defense community that more and more of us accept all of it.
Learning Collaborative Information Filters (PDF)
Automating filtering via machine learning is an up-and-coming research category for infotention — Howard ” “Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users’ ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the Internet. Although this can be seen as a classification problem, algorithms proposed thus far do not draw on results from the machine learning literature. We propose a representation for collaborative filtering tasks that allows the application of virtually any machine learning algorithm. We identify the shortcomings of current collaborative filtering techniques and propose the use of learning algorithms paired with feature extraction techniques that specifically address the limitations of previous approaches.”
The Zoetrope – a low-cost open source wind turbine
The Zoetrope is a vertical-axis wind turbine made from common materials such as stove pipe, metal brackets, plastic sheet and a trailer hub. Many of the materials can be found at local hardware or home improvement stores, the rest can either be made at home or purchased online.
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Applied Sciences made the decision to open source the wind turbine and provide a freely available introduction to wind power, thereby allowing others to improve the design and functionality. The construction guide represents a realization of the open source decision. It details the build process and includes a complete materials list as well as recommended tools.
See photos and videos as well as full specifications and links to other resources.
1999 Leverage_Points Donella Meadows
Tip of the Hat to Venessa Miemis!
Below the Line: 12 Intervention Points in Ascending Order of Effectiveness
Continue reading “Reference: Leverage Points – Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows”
Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response
My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source of big data, which they generate and share via social media platforms like twitter. Processing this data manually, however, is very time consuming and resource intensive. Indeed, large numbers of digital humanitarian volunteers are often needed to monitor and process user-generated content from disaster-affected communities in near real-time.
Meanwhile, companies like Crimson Hexagon, Geofeedia, NetBase, Netvibes, RecordedFuture and Social Flow are defining the cutting edge of automated methods for media monitoring and analysis. So why not set up a Big Data Philanthropy group for humanitarian response in partnership with the Digital Humanitarian Network? Call it Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) for digital humanitarian response. These companies would benefit from the publicity of supporting such positive and highly visible efforts. They would also receive expert feedback on their tools.
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Big Data Philathropy aka Big Data Commons”
