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SmartPlanet: Social startup VoteIt wants to make decision-making simpler

Social startup VoteIt wants to make decision-making simpler Ever been in one of those interminable meetings or email conversation loops where everyone has an opinion but no one is willing to make a decision? Then you’ll appreciate a new social platform called VoteIt that aims to make the process of reaching informed consensus easier. VoteIt is …

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Patrick Meier: Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge

Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge I have been writing and blogging about “information forensics” for a while now and thus relished Nieman Report’s must-read study on “Truth in the Age of Social Media.” My applied research has specifically been on the use of social media to support …

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Penguin: Official Report on 2011 Cost of Intelligence “Security”

good indication…” that we are out of our minds Information Security Oversight Office 2011 Cost Report Phi Beta Iota:  The cost, totalling $12 billion, is as good as a deceptive bureaucracy can provide.  Our own estimate based on other sources over time is that it is closer to $15-20 billion, and this is without considering …

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Patrick Meier: Become a (Social Media) Data Donor and Save a Life

Become a (Social Media) Data Donor and Save a Life I was recently in New York where I met up with my colleague Fernando Diaz from Microsoft Research. We were discussing the uses of social media in humanitarian crises and the various constraints of social media platforms like Twitter vis-a-vis their Terms of Service. And then this …

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Search: the expanding role of open source information and social media for the intelligence community

The Expanding Role of Open Source Information and Social Media for the Intelligence Community Open source information and social media have caused a huge growth in the amount of data available to the intelligence community. In a budget constrained environment, this information explosion may become a major source for producing intelligence and protecting our nation. …

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DefDog: Musubi Brings Openness to Mobile Social Networking

Very interesting….from the summary statement: Our point is that social networks are today’s version of AOL and CompuServe, not the Web and SMTP email—a service model that’s in conflict with the open, standards-based Internet. Furthermore,even though they’ve evolved to support mobile devices, today’s social services were designed for the era of PC-based Web browsers, not …

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Graphic: Big Bat USA Financial Comparisons

See Also: 2012 Testing the Two-Party Tyranny and Open Source Everything – The Battle for the Soul of the Republic 2012 THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO – Transparency, Truth, & Trust . . . the meme, the mind-set, and the method Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP