Worth a Look: The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Go Shafted

The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Go Shafted Mike Lofgren (Viking 2012) Available 2 August – can be pre-ordered online now. The ultimate Republican insider’s caustic exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today There was a time, not so very long ago, …

Worth a Look: Free Software at Pentagon, and on One Desktop

Free Software in Use at Pentagon Apache Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution OpenOffice.org OpenSSH OpenSSL bind Postfix gcc – GNAT perl, Python, PHP Samba Mailman MySQL and PostgreSQL GIMP MediaWiki More specifically, they use the following open source software for specific military purposes: FalconView – PC-based mapping application Open Source Software for Imagery & Mapping …

Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring – Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification

Crowdsourcing for Human Rights Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities for Information Collection & Verification This new book, Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use, promises to be a valuable resource to both practitioners and academics interested in leveraging new information & communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of human rights work. I had …

Tom Atlee: Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food

  Emerging EcoNomics #4: Community revolution growing with food Dear friends, The remarkable article below speaks for itself and, since it is long, I won’t add much except strong encouragement for you to read it and a note that you can productively and enjoyably jump around in it (as I did) if you’d rather not …