The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Plowing Up Astroturf I received an interesting bit of commission work earlier today – would I help someone plow up a bunch of astroturf. It sounded like an interesting test of my expanding social network analysis skills, so I agreed to take on the task. I was given a list of six Twitter accounts. One had …
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Yesterday after I posted Exploring e-International Relations I kept digging. I visited the LinkedIn profiles I had and found half a dozen additional people by using the “also viewed” column on the right. One of them responded to my request to connect, so I should be able to see the whole group fairly soon. Having …
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9 best ways to socially network your next live conference By Joe McKendrick | April 16, 2013, 7:07 PM PDT While social networks and technology have made it possible for anyone on the globe to connect and learn electronically, there is still a need for onsite conferences. There’s an immeasurable value to connecting with colleagues …
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Exploring e-International Relations When I was checking out the Think Tanks & Civil Societies Program I noticed e-International Relations – the world’s leading website for students of international politics. They had an About page similar to that of Wikistrat, listing all of their volunteer editors and some additional information on them. Last night I entered most …
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Here is a brilliant essay on the endless wars that enrich the few, and destroy the lives of many, and drain our treasury of the money we should be using to prepare our society for the world that is coming. We are destroying ourselves because we cannot mount the political will to demand life affirming …
Individual Reputation Metrics, Long Term Implications Just over four years ago I wrote my first article about Twitter and not long after that I created my first Twitter ‘program’ – a single line unix curl command placed in cron. The command executed at the top of every hour, posting the same tweet. Things have come a …
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Introduction to Mind Amplifiers A five week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter Limited to 30 learners May 15 – June 21 2013 Tuition: 300 USD; 250 for Rheingold U alumni; 500 if your company reimburses. Learning objectives About this course: Expect participative and collaborative learning …
