The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Real Time LRA Crisis Map Tracks Mass Atrocities in Central Africa Posted on September 29, 2011 My colleagues at Resolve and Invisible Children have just launched their very impressive Crisis Map of LRA Attacks in Central Africa. The LRA, or Lord’s Resistance Army, is a brutal rebel group responsible for widespread mass atrocities, most of which go completely unreported because …
Jeff Jarvis 5.0 out of 5 stars Being Twittered, a Helpful Contribution,September 27, 2011 I was going to use the existing review as a guest review at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog (all point back to their Amazon pages), but on further investigation have found that this book is being Twittered, and the …
Three dimensions of resilience. Arrests at OccupyWallStreet. Those around Fukushima make their own radiation maps and clean up affected areas themselves. Dave explains why Facebook scares him.
Everyone wants to be a news filter now Mathew Ingram Gigaom.com, 21 September 2011 As the avalanche of information coming through social networks and real-time tools like Twitter continues to grow, the need for filters to make sense of that tsunami of data also increases, and it seems as though everyone has a different way of …
The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions The shift from an era of broadcast mass media to that of networked digital media has altered both information flows and the nature of news work. Mainstream media (MSM) outlets have adopted Twitter as a means of engaging with and enlarging audiences, …
Announcing a new Rheingold U course: Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation For the past ten years, I’ve worked with Institute for the Future to track the emergence of a new story about how humans get things done together. The old story of survival of the fittest, competition, rational self-interest is changing as new knowledge …
I’ve been driving the 1964 MGB (my last remaining possession, it needs $5,000 of underbody work to survive the winter) around New England and am in New York now. I’ve been following the US Day of Rage plans (they were also announced here) but have been surprised to find a number of normally intelligent middle-class …
