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Volume 18 Issue 1, 2013
Special Issue on the Middle East
Edited by Alexander Dawoody, Marywood University, USA

Peer-Reviewed Papers:

2 The Challenge of Good Governance, by Michiel de Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

3 Protecting the Internet from Dictators: Technical and Policy Solutions to Ensure Online Freedoms, by Warigia Bowman, University of Arkansans, USA and L. Jean Camp, University of Indiana, USA.

4 The Middle East and Learning from BRIC, by Alexander Dawoody, Marywood University, USA.

5 The Middle East in Suspended Animation: Defective Complex Adaptive Systems, by Samir Rihani, University of Liverpool, UK.

See remaining articles, book reviews.

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Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised!

Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, P2P / Panarchy, Politics

Blogger Jon Rappoport offers penetrating insight into the on-going implosion of image-based mass media, and it's good news for truth (emphasis mine):

“Television news is shriveling. And it’s under attack from a new breed. You can call them counter-programmers, video freaks, whatever. But they’re winning. Every dollar and inch of technology the networks employ move toward an irrefutable image on the screen. “Here it is. Look.” And counter-programmers say, “Look again. See those guys in the yellow jackets standing right near the bomb when it goes off? They don’t move at all. They’re fine.” There is something very powerful in that response, because people are addicted to images. When the image you’re watching blows up, because somebody forces you to see something new, you start to wake up and effect a cure, even if you don’t want to. Image-addiction is sacred to people…

Continue reading “Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised!”

2013/04/25

Theophillis Goodyear: Alan Nordstrom on What Wisdom Requires

Culture, Ethics

A very concise and salient, 213 word essay on wisdom, by Alan Nordstrom:

What Wisdom Requires

eight high points:

1. regulate our behavior sanely and rationally

2. comprehend the consequences of our decisions and customs

3. practice kindness toward others who are similarly struggling to thrive

4. practice humane behavior and transcend the brute instinct to conquer and dominate

5. act according to the principle of kinship and reciprocity: treat others as one wishes to be treated

6. act according to the principle of cooperation and partnership rather than conquest

7. cultivate the higher-order intellectual potential that human beings possess

8. manifest truth, beauty, and goodness

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Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

Data, Design

Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

Howard Rheingold‘s insight:

If you think the desktop Web and the smartphone were occasions for info-overload, get ready for wearable computing, which isn't waiting for the 2014 release of Google Glass. On ski slopes and on the roads, we're about to embark on a societal experiment regarding the dangers of fragmented attention. How many people will master multiple streams of incoming information while racing down a hill or driving on a freeway? And how many will crash?

Safety advocates say the concept of high-tech displays for goggles — and for other sports eyewear — is information overload run amok, particularly when people are using them at high speeds. Yet Oakley, based in Foothill Ranch, Calif., is one of a handful of sports eyewear companies betting that thrill seekers and athletes crave the equivalent of a cockpit dashboard while skiing, snowboarding, cycling and running. The companies are in the vanguard of the next wave of personal technology, called wearable computing, which promises to further shrink the barrier between users and the information they seek.”

Read full article.

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DIY Wind Turbine Project Goes Open Source

05 Energy, Design

DIY Wind Turbine Project Goes Open Source

This DIY, vertical-axis wind turbine uses easily attainable parts, can be built by anyone and yields impressive power output. As a bonus, it's open source.

Applied Sciences, which did the work, notes that the intention of this product was to provide supplemental water heating. The result is this wind turbine made of materials that you can find at Home Depot and online. Applied Sciences provides what you need to know to build one yourself, including some videos of the turbine and its parts in action and some other valuable resources that will help hopefully get the turbine connected to your home and operating.

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Jean Lievins: Empathy and the Future

Culture

Empathy: Part Of The New Operating System For Our Modern World

Empathy has been in the news a lot recently. It has been highlighted as an antidote to school bullying and gun and gender violence, and it has become popular in the business community as a part of user-centered design. More and more, empathy is being recognized as a skill that people need to develop to better shape how society will function in the future.

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Web Pollock: The Communistic Aspect of the US? Our Culture Dead? Plus Oliver Stone on Root Cause of America’s Decline

Culture

Phi Beta Iota: Brother Warren is stressed while presenting these thoughts. We are all stressed. He makes an important point. The Soviet Union implodes when the USA pushed it to the point that it's top down micro-management failed on the edges (Afghanistan, Eastern Europe). Now the USA is itself failing from the centralization of wealth and power.

Warren Pollock, YouTube (14:48) Oliver Stone on RT – What is the Root Cause Of US Decline – Too Late to Change

Category: #OSE Open Source Everything

Yoda: From GIGANET with Love – Protecting the Internet from Dictators Plus….

Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised!

Theophillis Goodyear: Alan Nordstrom on What Wisdom Requires

Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

DIY Wind Turbine Project Goes Open Source

Jean Lievins: Empathy and the Future

Web Pollock: The Communistic Aspect of the US? Our Culture Dead? Plus Oliver Stone on Root Cause of America’s Decline