Worth a Look: Communications, Communities, & Modalities

Seven years ago Tom Atlee, our mentor on collective intelligence and community self-organization for resilience and sustainability, began focusing on “ways of communicating.”  Responding to a recent query from us about alternatives to partisan politics or dictatorships, he offered up the below links, each of which has many other links, as food for reflection. 1. …

Your Apps Are Watching You…AND Reporting Intimate Details Without Your Consent…

Your Apps Are Watching You A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users By SCOTT THURM and YUKARI IWATANI KANE Wall Street Journal, Sunday, December 18, 2010 Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the …

Reference: Microsoft, Facebook, & the Future

Bianca Bosker bianca@huffingtonpost.com | HuffPost Reporting Microsoft’s Cracked Windows: How The World’s Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The ‘Underdog’ EXTRACT:  Its stranglehold on the desktop, while hugely profitable, helped turn Microsoft into an out-of-shape competitor focused on defending turf rather than scoring new hits. In seeking to maintain its dominance on the desktop, …

Journal: WikiLeaks Collaboration, WikiLeaks Attacked + CYBER RECAP

Respected media outlets collaborate with WikiLeaks (NewsMeat) WikiLeaks turned over all of the classified State Department cables it obtained to Le Monde, El Pais in Spain, The Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany. The Guardian shared the material with the New York Times, and the five news organizations have been working together to …