Yoda: Real-Time Crowd-Sourcing + Twitter Meta-RECAP

How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …

Mini-Me: CIA Chief Lawyer on CIA Authorities to Use Force Around the World

Huh? CIA General Counsel Speech on Hypothetical Uses of Force by Deborah Pearlstein Opinio Juris, 12 April 2012 The speech delivered by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston at Harvard yesterday is important and illuminating, and I agree with Ken the administration should be commended for it. But wow does it raise some troubling questions about …

Mini-Me: US Dollar Out, Yuan, System D, and Open Money In + Meta-RECAP

BRICS Move To Replace Dollar With “Super-Sovereign” Global Currency Alexander Higgins, Contributor Activist Post, 28 March 2012 As China is expected to rise to the status of a financial superpower within the next 8 years and eclipse the US economy by 2020, Africa becomes center stage in the greatest currency war the world has seen …

#OWS Rolling Update + US Revolution RECAP

CORRUPTION is the common enemy, both in government and in the private sector.  ELECTORAL REFORM is the singular demand.  COALITION CABINET is the method.  INTEGRITY is the core value.  COMMONWEALTH RESTORED is the outcome. Occupy Revolution OccupyWallStreet (Home Site) Original Electoral Reform Documents (Updated) We the People Reform Coalition   25 March 2012 Penn Badgley …

Review: Republic Lost – How Money Corrupts Congress – and Plan to Stop It

Lawrence Lessig 5.0 out of 5 stars Diplomatically Provocative — A Foundation, Not a Structure, March 22, 2012 I come late to this book but my review will be much more detailed and useful than most others now posted, including the several that I voted for. I received it this afternoon and it has absorbed …

Patrick Meier: Twitter, Early Warning, Small Data Matters More

Twitter, Crises and Early Detection: Why “Small Data” Still Matters My colleagues John Brownstein and Rumi Chunara at Harvard University’s HealthMap project are continuing to break new ground in the field of Digital Disease Detection. Using data obtained from tweets and online news, the team was able to identify a cholera outbreak in Haiti weeks before health officials acknowledged the problem publicly. …