The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Question: How do I clean up my online image? Lots of people seem to be getting value out of these posts on personal resilience, so I will keep adding them. Question: Do you know of any service that will check a person’s exposure on the web? I wasn’t always as careful with my online activities …
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What do you think of the following: YouTube has an “informal system” that allows companies with copyrights to automatically scan all uploads for potential violations. If the software detects the “possibility” of a violation (image, tune, trademark, etc.), it automatically tells YouTube to delete the content. This software is so automated, it can censor millions …
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Occupy Portland’s “Snake” March Tactic Wins Big An open source protest/insurgency doesn’t have a formal doctrine. The tactics and methods (the conflict’s source code) used are developed bit by bit, by the participants. This is why the insurgency/protest is “open source”. For a bit of tactical innovation to make it into the conflict’s source …
Why Networked Resilient Communities won’t need China Posted: 11 Dec 2011 04:39 PM PST Here’s the simple version of the message. Big changes are coming. How you fare will be a function of the choices you make. The threat is the ongoing breakdown of the global economic and political system. Things are already bad for …
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Here’s a scenario from William Buiter (the chief economist at Citi) on what could happen if the EU collapses: Disorderly sovereign defaults and eurozone exits by all five periphery states would drag down not just the European banking system but also the north Atlantic financial system and the internationally exposed parts of the rest of …
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Open (Source) Protest in Moscow Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:23 AM PST Open source protest, an organizational method that allows many, many small groups to come together to take on larger foes, has been spreading by leaps and bounds. It’s now reached Moscow. A picture from today: The crowds on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square (and the …
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Technology Shifts and Economic Depression Joseph Stiglitz (the Nobel prize winning economist) has a great new article: “The Book of Jobs“(behind Vanity Fair’s paywall, sorry). In it, he makes a convincing case that the first global depression was caused by a process similar to what we are seeing today (I’m very happy somebody in the social …
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