Berto Jongman: Syrian Electronic Army Does Hard Cyber (Kinetic Effect) Attack on Israel — or Russia Being Clever? Or Both?

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel’s Main Infrastructure Control System (SCADA) Submitted by siavash on Wed, 05/08/2013 – 16:53 Cyberwarzone The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the operation of the servers in charge of urban management systems …

Berto Jongman: Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’

He calls it the “Cancer of American Journalism” Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’ May 7, 2013 Watch the full 20-minute interview with Robert Fisk on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/kN9jD. Longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk, tells Democracy Now! that journalists covering Syria and …

Jean Lievens: Social Media and Culture — We Are All Digital Immigrants

We Are All Digital Immigrants Does technological progress change the human condition? Techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci took the time to speak with Martin Eiermann about the rise of Al Jazeera, accelerating change and the conventions of online interaction. Zeynep Tufekci is an American sociologist, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and a fellow at …

Marcus Aurelius: Manifesto on Behalf of the Second Amendment

Provided by a retired Marine colonel and apparently written by a former Servicemember and/or law enforcement officer, following is among  very best articles on Second Amendment issue that I’ve ever read.)  Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned By Barry Snell, barry.snell@iowastatedaily.com | Posted: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:00 am Along with …

Tom Atlee: Blog Has Moved

Dear friends, Twitter has closed down Posterous.com, the former host of my blog “Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge”. We decided to  make this problem into an opportunity.  So Co-Intelligence Institute board member John Abbe and I have moved my blog to a new site where it has its own memorable domain name: http://www.tomatleeblog.com/ I …

SmartPlanet: The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging

The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging Text messaging, the 20-year-old thumb-happy talk replacement that radically changed people’s communications habits and enriched cellphone carriers, is on a decline. Mobile operators like Verizon and Vodafone lost a combined $23 billion of potential revenue in 2012 as users opted for other ways to send short …