Patrick Meier: #Westgate Tweets One Hour Before Attacks to Two Hours Afterwards — Who, What, When, Where…

#Westgate Tweets: A Detailed Study in Information Forensics My team and I at QCRI have just completed a detailed analysis of the 13,200+ tweets posted from one hour before the attacks began until two hours into the attack. The purpose of this study, which will be launched at CrisisMappers 2013 in Nairobi tomorrow, is to make …

Steven Aftergood: Secrecy News Combined Federal Campaign Number is 11539 — Support Secrecy News If You Can

SUPPORT SECRECY NEWS, IF YOU CAN We hope that all Secrecy News readers will give generously to charitable causes that help relieve those who are in distress, near and far. But if you have something left over and you find our work interesting or useful for your own purposes, then we hope you may also …

Robin Good: Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education

How can content curation be used in education to support and enhance the development of new media literacy skills?  Paul Mihailidis from the Department of Marketing Communication at Emerson College in tandem with James N Cohen from the School of Communication at Hofstra University, have outlined six different ways in which content curation can be …

John Maguire: Asymmetric Electromagnetic Machines

UFOPolitics is an engineer, open-source advocate, and new-energy pioneer. He has built a number of Asymmetrical Electric Motors that operate at COP > 1.0 (Coefficient of Performance). This blatently contradicts what most consider to be immutable “laws” of thermodynamics. The magic behind these motors is that they eliminate what’s known as the Back-EMF, and make use of this otherwise wasted …