Graphic: GAO Audit In One Graphic – Banks Buying Politicians
Source and More Data
Berto Jongman: 50 Mostly Free Social Media Tools for 2012
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 …
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: 50 Mostly Free Social Media Tools for 2012”
Mini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA
Huh? Launching the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia1 Bush’s Terror War and the Fixing of Intelligence On September 11, 2001, within hours of the murderous 9/11 attacks, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney had committed America to what they later called the “War on Terror.” It should more properly, I believe, be …
Continue reading “Mini-Me: From JFK to 9/11 Spotlight Shines on the CIA”
Mini-Me: Bin Laden Road Show Begins Part I – David Ignatius on the CIA’s “Captured” Abbottabad Files
Huh? We do not make this stuff up. CIA’s Covert Action Staff is evidently having a ball, and David Ignatius has no problem playing the bimbo. Note the built-in pre-excuse on poor syntax. Note the pretense that incoherence was connected to long periods of time between sending, receiving, and responding. The hit on Fox is …
Venessa Miemis: Social Media and the Evolution of Consciousness
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 …
Continue reading “Venessa Miemis: Social Media and the Evolution of Consciousness”
Steven Aftergood: NSA Has Failed, Since 1976, to Protect US Commercial Communications
IN 1976, NSA WAS TASKED TO HELP SECURE PRIVATE COMMS As long ago as the Gerald Ford Administration, the National Security Agency was directed to help secure non-governmental communications networks against intrusion and interception by foreign — or domestic — entities, according to a recently declassified presidential directive. “The President is concerned about possible damage …
Patrick Meier: Truthiness as Propability – Moving Beyond Absolutism within the Global Social Media Information Environment
Truthiness as Probability: Moving Beyond the True or False Dichotomy when Verifying Social Media I asked the following question at the Berkman Center’s recent Symposium on Truthiness in Digital Media: “Should we think of truthiness in terms of probabili-ties rather than use a True or False dichotomy?” The wording here is important. The word “truthiness” …
