The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Value from nothing – the sharing economy Patrick Doherty Flip the Media, 9 March 2013 AirBnb, etsy and Relay Rides are the current poster children of the sharing economy. If you don’t know what that is, it’s also called collaborative consumption or peer-to-peer selling. In other words, just fancy names for one person selling or renting …
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The Women of Crisis Mapping Posted on March 5, 2013 | 1 Comment The vast majority of volunteers engaged in the Ushahidi-Haiti Crisis Map project (January 2010) were women. The Ushahidi-Chile Crisis Map (March 2010) was entirely spearheaded by women. Fast forward three years and women in 2013 are still the main driving force behind the field …
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DARPA Wants a Searchable Database of All Your Conversations The ultimate privacy killer Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 4, 2013 DARPA is working on an embryonic project that would store your every verbal conversation on an Internet server, creating a searchable chat database that would represent the ultimate privacy killer. Having failed to establish its …
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From: “Bill McKibben Reply-To: <organizers@350.org> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 Subject: Breaking news on Keystone XL Friends, Yesterday Time Magazine declared that Keystone had become the Stonewall and the Selma of the climate movement — and today we got a reminder of just how tough those fights were, and how tough this one will be. …
Why open social collaboration platforms will disrupt the enterprise market in 2013 and beyond – Brian Solis Guest post by Sarah Evans (PRsarahevans), chief evangelist, Tracky, social correspondent at Sarah’s Faves and author of [RE]FRAME: Little Inspirations For A Larger Purpose The majority of businesses aren’t run efficiently and employees lack the tools and equipment …
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Keynote: Next Generation Humanitarian Technology I’m excited to be giving the Keynote address at the Social Media and Response Management Interface Event (SMARMIE 2013) in New York this morning. A big thank you to the principal driver behind this important event, Chuck Frank, for kindly inviting me to speak. This is my first major keynote since …
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Haiti: Lies, Damned Lies and Crisis Mapping You’d think there was some kind of misinformation campaign going on about the Ushahidi-Haiti Crisis Map given the number of new lies that are still being manu-factured even thought it has been over three years since the earthquake. Please, if you really want a professional, independent and rigorous account of the project, …
