Journal: Crowdsourcing II

Commentary The Digital Meritocracy Lukas Biewald, 11.09.10, 04:00 PM EST for Forbes.com How crowdsourcing will change the way the world works. s the amount of digital work increases and the amount of physical work decreases, our notions of employment and work change profoundly. Digital work doesn’t require roads and factories; it requires a laptop and …

Worth a Look: Momentum Crowdsourcing for Open Source Intelligence

MOMENTUM: REAL OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE Here’s a short essay on a new software tool my team built called Momentum. It does something pretty unusual and worthy of note.  It uses crowdsourcing (by leveraging the work of 500 million users on global social networks) to make open source intelligence gathering easy.* ___________________ Here are some real …

Wikileaks Round II (Iraq) Rolling Update 20101105

NOTICE: Within DoD, at least all elements of the Army as well as the Marine Corps Reserve have been given direct, unqualified, written orders not to access the Wikileaks site or read the Wikileaks document via any Government **OR** non-Government computer.  This Rolling Update complies with the DoD guidance. Friday 5 November 2010 WikiLeaks Incidents May …

Journal: “Queer Kissing Flash Mob” to Confront Pope

Barcelona is known as one of Spain’s most vibrant cities, but when Pope Benedict XVI touches down there Sunday, he’ll be greeted with something extra colorful: a massive “queer kissing flashmob.” According to the event’s Facebook page, organizers have invited same-sex couples from all over Spain to congregate in front of the city’s cathedral Nov. …

Reference: Entangled Minds, Extra-Sensory Perception

Entangled Minds Dean Radin’s blog Thursday, October 21, 2010 Extrasensory Perception and Quantum Models of Cognition By Patrizio E. Tressoldi, Lance Storm, & Dean Radin. The possibility that information can be acquired at a distance without the use of the ordinary senses, that is by “extrasensory perception” (ESP), is not easily accommodated by conventional neuroscientific …