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Mini-Me: Twitter Censors #OccupyWallStreet

AmpedStatus))) Knowledge is Power #TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice On at least two occasions, Saturday September 17th and again on Thursday night, Twitter blocked #OccupyWallStreet from being featured as a top trending topic on their homepage. On both occasions, #OccupyWallStreet tweets were coming in more frequently than other top trending topics that …

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Review: Full Spectrum Diplomacy and Grand Strategy – Reforming the Structure and Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy

John Lenczowski 5.0 out of 5 stars Long Needed Treatise, But Too Expensive,September 21, 2011 EDIT of 11 December 2011: Gene Poteat, President of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) has an excellent review of this book in the Summer/Fall 2011 issue of Intelligencer. The following quote is from his review, it captures the …

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Review: Whole Earth Discipline – An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Stewart Brand Surprising, Challenges, Perhaps Wrong on Some Points,September 13, 2011 This book is an absorbing read, and several of the top reviews are very useful to anyone considering buying the book (also available in paperback, Amazon is now NOT crossing reviews over from different forms, a mistake in my view, but perhaps motivated by …

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Graphic: Global Brain at Infancy (Facebook)

A member of Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, recently took a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? A stunningly beautiful—and accurate—map of the world. Source Phi Beta Iota:  What really matters in the above is not the light, but the darkness.  Facebook–and …

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UN + Start-Up Seek to Get Poor Online with Cell Numbers

Startup Aims to Get the Poor Online With Phone Numbers By Stephen Lawson, IDG News U.K. startup Movirtu plans to help 3 million or more people in poor countries use mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers, not phones. Working with a U.N.-affiliated initiative called Business Call to Action (BCtA), Movirtu will offer the …

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