The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet. Launched just a few weeks after the protests began one year ago, the crisis map is spearheaded by a just handful of US-based Syrian activists have meticulously and …
Vivek Ranadive may be a very clever man using the top 200 rich to finance a system that could rapidly be “flipped” to empower the bottom up. Or he may be a very evil person who is planning to empower the top 200 in the same way that he empowered Goldman Sachs. If the top …
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50 (mostly) free social media tools you can’t live without in 2012 18th March 2012 by Adam Vincenzini A couple years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called ‘The 39 social media tools I’ll use today’ which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media marketers (and still is). A lot has changed in the …
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Why Big Data is now such a big deal Computers are spewing forth data at astronomical rates about everything from astrophysics to internet shopping. And it could be hugely valuable John Naughton The Observer, 17 March 2012 One of the most famous quotes in the history of the computing industry is the assertion that “640KB …
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Inside the Kurzweil SXSW Keynote: On Infinite Mind Power, Robotic Overlords and Immortality He is one of the world’s most renowned futurists, and onstage at South By Southwest, Ray Kurzweil stirred debate with a speech that outlined the incredible role artificial intelligence will play in the future, as it reshapes humanity South By Southwest Interactive …
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This is my favorite talk I’ve given so far. No notes, no real prep… just sharing my views about the web, the co-evolution of humanity and our technologies, and where we might be taking ourselves. “Fall Conference 2011 Introduction and Social Media and the Evolution of Consciousness, Presented on 10/15/11, Venessa Miemis Venessa Miemis is …
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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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