Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Syria – Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence

Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet. Launched just a few weeks after the protests began one year ago, the crisis map is spearheaded by a just handful of US-based Syrian activists have meticulously and …

Koko: Day of Rage 17 September–How Will it End?

Koko Signs:  Is anyone paying attention?  We gorillas consider this kind of thing extremely significant. U.S. Day of Rage planned for Saturday — an Arab Spring in America? By Elizabeth Flock Thousands of people from across the country are planning to converge on Wall Street this Saturday to protest America’s “corrupt democratic process” and the …

Where Does the Money Go?

The Top Ten Foreign Holders of U.s. Debt in November 2009: Country Amount China, Mainland                                                            $789.6 billion Japan                                                                       …