The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
MIT Online vs. Your Local College: How Will Web Learning Stack Up? Alan Jacobs – Alan Jacobs is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College. He blogs at ayjay.tumblr.com. The Atlantic, 23 February 2012 The success of e-education depends on whether universities can design online environments that are conducive to learning. In …
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Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …
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Second Pass The “tribes” metaphor does little for me. I humbly suggest you lose it; it is neither explanatory nor usefully evocative (IMHO). As to who does intelligence for Whole of Government, I submit that the WOG is not a monolith so, to answer your question, there are many forces and factions who provide intelligence …
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Open Access to Scientific Information By Adrian Janes Source: House of Commons Library (UK) Overview: Open Access (OA) to scientific publications could provide more effective dissemination of research and thus increase its impact. The costs and benefits of different models of providing OA to publications need to be considered if a comprehensive shift to OA …
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Victory on SOPA: Lessons Learned “When we feel the heat, we see the light.”~ Senator Everett DirksenOn Wednesday, January 18, the forces of liberty gained a major political victory over the entrenched meddlers in Congress. The owners of a handful of popular Internet sites joined together to protest SOPA/PIPA. They blacked out their sites and provided information on …
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A threat to the Internet, and naming the right problem by John Abbe President of the Co-Intelligence Institute The Internet is in an uproar over proposed U.S. Senate bill Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and it’s corresponding bill in the House, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Among other consequences, these bills would lead to …
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Source Phi Beta Iota: This article, written in 2007, remains the standard in the field for both brevity and authoritativeness. Business Intelligence is data mining, not intelligence. Competitive Intelligence focuses on competitors and does not do 360 degree holistic analytics. The modern term for a full service program is Commercial Intelligence, which uses only open …
