The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A typology of openness Tim Berners-Lee: “I was recently asked to talk about the idea of “open”, and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways. The distinct interpretations are all important in different but interlocking ways. Getting them confused leads to a lot of misunderstanding, so it’s good to review …
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Automatically Identifying Eyewitness Reporters on Twitter During Disasters My colleague Kate Starbird recently shared a very neat study entitled “Learning from the Crowd: Collaborative Filtering Techniques for Identifying On-the-Ground Twitterers during Mass Disruptions” (PDF). As she and her co-authors rightly argue, “most Twitter activity during mass disruption events is generated by the remote crowd.” So can we use advanced …
What’s the Future of the Sharing Economy? by SPARKS & HONEY CULTURAL STRATEGISTS October 15, 2013, 5:04 PM The Sharing Economy is a topic that has been garnering a lot of attention lately — from startups embracing the collaborative model to consumers embracing the age old “sharing is caring” philosophy when it comes to vacation …
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UFOs Going Back to the 1940s Well, well. This comes from an e-mail I received from Steven Greer at SiriusDisclosure.com. In case you are not familiar with Dr. Greer, he has been pushing for official disclosure of E.T. and UFO presence going back to the late 1940s. There is ample evidence that at least some …
Power Search for Open Source Developers Open source is cutting across the world as solution revolution. It is making technology cheaper and more widely available. It could have positive far reaching consequences in education and aerospace technology, but all revolutions need a little help getting off the ground. “Open source projects need all the help …
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Open Source Manufacturing Chinese business website Caixin Online has a great video on China’s Open Source Hardware Movement, this is an area that promises to change the manufacturing industry. Open Source is the philosophy of sharing intellectual property and allowing anyone to improve the idea on the proviso they share their changes with the rest …
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PeerPoint An Open P2P Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal Google Doc created June 6, 2012 Last updated October 19, 2012 PeerPoint shares a vision of “Sovereign Computing”: “To be the true owner of your information and of your computer’s hardware resources, as well as to share these things in any way you want and …
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