The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
OPEN, Force Is. Open Source Design Tools for Human Rights Activists Deji Olukotun Global Voices Advocacy, 25 January 2013 The world’s premier human rights organizations often have entire communications teams with dedicated graphic designers to celebrate their work. But not every organization can afford to have a designer. Even those organizations that do have design …
Hybrid, force is. A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age Hybrid Pedagogy, 22 January 2013 On December 14, 2012, a group of 12 assembled in Palo Alto for a raucous discussion of online education. Hybrid Pedagogy contributors Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel gathered together with folks from a diverse …
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(1) Why is West Point in the business of studying the domestic activities of Americans? (2) Why is such an effort spearheaded by an Israeli? (3) Is it any wonder America’s good old boys do not trust their own government? Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right Arie Perliger West Point Combatting Terrorism Centrer, …
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In the tar pit, the mammoths are. There Is No Publishing Industry All models are wrong, some models are useful – statistician George Box The mental model we share of this thing we call the publishing industry is no longer useful. Most of us think of the publishing industry’s product as “books”. That’s like thinking that Amazon …
Cloud Computing as Enclosure 15th January 2013 Republished from David Bollier: “As more and more computing moves off our PCs and into “the Cloud,” Internet users are gaining access to a wealth of new software-based services that can exploit vast computing capacity and memory storage. That’s wonderful. But what about our freedom to create and …
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Journal of SOCMINT Social Media Intelligence (SMI) — A (very) short introduction Paper.li is a content curation service. It enables people to publish newspapers based on topics they like and treat their readers to fresh news, daily. We believe that people (and not machines) are the ones qualified to curate the content that matters most. …
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David Rivera 4.0 out of 5 stars A good starting point, not the total map, January 10, 2013 I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it has some real gems that I have not seen elsewhere, and on the other it can be very tedious. It was not until I was …
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