Reflections on the Ecuador Initiative — Open Source Everything Combined with Ethical Evidence-Based Decision-Support 1.1

Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer to Peer (P2P) Foundation and one of my personal pioneer heroes, is deeply engaged in Ecuador with a Presidential initiative. This endeavor could be world-changing, first in Ecuador, then across South America, and ultimately around the globe starting with the BRICS and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere. I …

Reflections on the Future of Information Technology – An Open Letter

SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference. Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance …

Berto Jongman: End of Net Neutrality? 1.3

INTERNET: animation about the end of net neutrality INTERNET: apocalypse? INTERNET: Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications on net neutrality INTERNET: goodbye net neutrality INTERNET: net neutrality endangered INTERNET: net neturality is not totally lost INTERNET: possible implications of ending net neutrality (Sorcha Faal)

4th Media: The WEST Publicly Claims To Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst Covertly Nourishing It

The WEST Publicly Claims To Be Fighting Terrorism, Whilst Covertly Nourishing It Syria Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, who headed his country’s official delegation to Geneva II, called at the opening session of the conference on a collective confrontation against terrorism and on starting a national dialogue in Damascus, SANA reported. By Walid al-Moallem – Syria …

Mini-Me: Snowden as Russian Agent? Snowden as Joint Chinese-Russian Project?

Huh? Guardian: Intelligence chair: NSA leaker Edward Snowden may have had Russian help Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, Snowden said he did not take any of the documents he obtained to Russia, “because it wouldn’t serve the public interest”.  Snowden said there was “zero-percent chance” that Russia had received any …

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Pressures Fee Business Intelligence Bottom Feeders

Business Intelligence: Free Pressures For Fee Solutions I read “KB Crawl sort la tête de l’eau,” published by 01Business. The hook for the article is that KB Crawl, a company harvesting Internet content for business intelligence analyses, has emerged from bankruptcy. Good news for KB Crawl, whose parent company is reported to be KB Intelligence. …