Event: 19-20 Oct DC, 29-30 Oct SanFran, 15-16 Nov London, Predictive Analytics Conference and Workshops

Predictive Analytics World Conferences/Workshops in Oct & Nov The predictive analytics conferences and workshops are coming right up – three Predictive Analytics Worlds (PAW) that I’m chairing, and one stand-alone workshop I facilitate. Let me know if you have any questions about their agendas. Oct 19-20 – WASHINGTON DC: PAW Conference & Workshops (pawcon.com/dc) Oct …

Review: The World Is Open–How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education

6 STAR Wake Up Call for All Educators August 19, 2010 Curtis J. Bonk UPDATE 21 Aug 2010 to add two graphics. I’ve seen educators struggle to herd their faculty cats, hire staff under industrial-era rules, and strive to accommodate students that know more than their professors about anything outside the “teach to test” topic. …

Event: 20-22 Oct 2010, Miami FL, Sustainable Shipping Conference: From the Cradle to the Grave

How can the industry work with build yards and refit facilities to enable the building of a viable sustainable modern fleet? How do we dispose of our ships in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way? How can the current world fleet comply with upcoming legislation? What will the next wave of legislation concentrate on? What …

Worth a Look: Citizen-Centered Talking Points Memo

Talking Points Memo is the flagship blog of TPM Media LLC, which also publishes TPMmuckraker, TPMDC, TPMtv and TPMCafe. Founder and editor Josh Marshall began publishing Talking Points Memo during the 2000 Florida vote recount. The site specializes in original reporting on government and politics and offers breaking news coverage, investigative reporting, high profile guest …

Journal: Yemen–Opening A New “Front” in the Long War

Nicht Schwerpunkt as a Prescription for Defeat by a 1000 Cuts Recent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has been taking place quietly, as if Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were not …

Worth a Look: Prediction Market Cluster

The Prediction Market Clusters founded in 2004 in Silicon Valley, are a global  commons and open community for prediction markets and collective intelligence networks worldwide. The open and agnostic community is a focused action/research collaboration network of vendors, academia, traders, users, developers, markets, regulators and stakeholders. All are welcome. The goal is to provide Next …