Michel Bauwens: What is specific about the positioning of the P2P Foundation?

Access, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Knowledge
Michel Bauwens

What is specific about the positioning of the P2P Foundation?

“Like Oekonux, the P2P Foundation is a collective marked by diversity, but it also has dominant personalities and themes, with a substantial influence of the author of this article, who is also the initiator and founder of the initiative. So, when I make claims here below, and above, on the ‘P2P Foundation’s approach, they are my own approach, not necessarily the approach of every participant in our community and knowledge commons.

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20120718 Open Source Everything Highlights

Highlights
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Open Source Everything

TWITTER HASH: #openall

ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL

ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT

THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele

THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012

All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

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Worth a Look: Free Software at Pentagon, and on One Desktop

Software, Worth A Look

Free Software in Use at Pentagon

  • Apache
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution
  • OpenOffice.org
  • OpenSSH
  • OpenSSL
  • bind
  • Postfix
  • gcc –
  • GNAT
  • perl, Python, PHP
  • Samba
  • Mailman
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • GIMP
  • MediaWiki

More specifically, they use the following open source software for specific military purposes:

  • FalconView – PC-based mapping application
  • Open Source Software for Imagery & Mapping (OSSIM) – geospatial image viewing (with classified plugins)
  • OSSIM Mapping ARchieve System (OMAR) – video indexing
  • BRL-CAD – solid modeling (Army)
  • Optics – MASINT toolset (with classfied plugins)
  • Delta3D – Game/Simulation engine for modeling and simulation

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Free Software on One Desktop

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See Also:

ROOT: The Open Source Everything Convergence

Howard Rheingold: Best Apps and Services to Filter & Present News

Advanced Cyber/IO, Knowledge
Howard Rheingold

News Discovery: Here's The Cream of the Crop – Best Apps and Services To Find The News You Like

Robin Good: Here is a good and well written overview of some of the best news discovery tools out there.

These services, generally avaliable as mobile apps and/or desktop tools, aggregate a large number of relevant news sources in different categories of interest, and leverage in many cases your Facebook and Twitter network of contacts to suggest the type of stories you may be interested in the most.

Covered in the article:  Pulse Zite Google Currents Flipboard Taptu Prismatic News.me LinkedIN Today The Browser Longreads and more

Excellent overview. 8/10  Full article

Patrick Meier: Situational Awareness in Mass Emergency – Behavioral & Linguistic Analysis of Disaster Tweets [Thin Thread for Twitter]

Advanced Cyber/IO, Knowledge
Patrick Meier

Situational Awareness in Mass Emergency: Behavioral & Linguistic Analysis of Disaster Tweets

Sarah Vieweg‘s doctoral dissertation from the University of Colorado is a must-read for anyone interested in the use of twitter during crises. I read the entire 300-page study because it provides important insights on how automated natural language processing (NLP) can be applied to the Twittersphere to provide situational awareness following a sudden-onset emergency. Big thanks to Sarah for sharing her dissertation with QCRI. I include some excerpts below to highlight the most important findings from her excellent research.

Read full post with many tables.

Phi Beta Iota:  Dr. Patrick Meier has rapidly become the single most important focal point for the emergence of public intelligence in the public interest.  This one post is so important that we have put it into a single ten page document for ease of study: Situational Awareness in Mass Emergency   William Binney's Thin Thread–the cost effective meta data analytics program that respected privacy by drawing extraordinary insights from data in the aggregate–is now in the public domain.  We view this as a tipping point.

 

 

20120717 Open Source Everything Highlights

Highlights
Click on Image to Enlarge

Open Source Everything

TWITTER HASH: #openall

ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL

ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT

THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele

THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012

All Opens Below Line .  Also Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost

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