The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The $10 cell phone has arrived – and with it, economic opportunity By Channtal Fleischfresser | March 18, 2013, 3:10 AM PDT On a recent trip to Shenzhen, China, a group of MIT students discovered that you can buy a cell phone there for as little as $10. While the cost of mobile phones has …
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Crisis Mapping, Neogeography and the Delusion of Democratization Professor Muki Haklay kindly shared with me this superb new study in which he questions the alleged democratization effects of Neogeography. As my colleague Andrew Turner explained in 2006, “Neogeography means ‘new geography’ and consists of a set of techniques and tools that fall outside the realm of …
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Innovation & Creativity, Inspiring Others What Yahoo and Marissa Mayer did right (and wrong) By Dana Theus on March 11th, 2013 | Comments(12) If you somehow missed it, a media frenzy erupted after Yahoo announced that it will bring telecommuters home to the office. Much of the noise came from the working-mom contingent upset at …
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Analyzing Tweets Posted During Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Over 1 million unique users posted more than 2.7 million tweets in just 3 days following the triple bomb blasts that struck Mumbai on July 13, 2011. Out of these, over 68,000 tweets were “original tweets” (in contrast to retweets) and related to the bombings. An analysis of these …
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The Spanish P2P Wikisprint on March 20 Next Wednesday, March 20, a fascinating new stage in transnational cooperation will arrive when scores of commoners in twenty countries take part in a Spanish P2P Wikisprint, a coordinated effort to document and map the myriad peer to peer initiatives that exist in Latin America and Spain. The …
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There is now a petition for a Wall Street Sales Tax online at: http://wh.gov/ARGi The petition was initiated by the United Front Against Austerity. It has started off strong, and we want to keep the momentum building, so the more it’s shared, the better. Thank you! We’ve got until April 10 to get 100,000 signatures. Twitter …
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Humanitarian Technology and the Japan Earthquake My Internews colleagues have just released this important report on the role of communications in the 2011 Japan Earthquake. Independent reports like this one are absolutely key to building the much-needed evidence base of humanitarian technology. Internews should thus be applauded for investing in this important report. The purpose of my …
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