SmartPlanet: Bad Waste, Good Waste
BAD WASTE: $282 million of turkey trashed during U.S. Thanksgiving GOOD WASTE: Microsoft’s experimental waste-to-energy data center
Berto Jongman: Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) – Same Song, New Melody? Florian Schaurer Open Source Intelligence Blog, 31 October 2012 Without setting the schmaltzy pride of belated parents aside, David Omand, Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller – as an online first article in Taylor & Francis’ well-established periodical ‘Intelligence and National Security‘ – are ‘Introducing Social …
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Berto Jongman: Alexis C. Mardrigal on Obama’s Technical Team – Soul of a New [Chicago] Machine
Extreme detail. When the Nerds Go Marching In Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic, 16 November 2012 EXTRACTS: . . . . . . . . . “The real innovation in 2012 is that we had world-class technologists inside a campaign,” Slaby told me. “The traditional technology stuff inside campaigns had not been at the same …
Ron Paul: 32 Questions – One More Fight?
32 Questions That All Americans Must Answer Activist Post, 16 November 2012 Ron Paul, in his historic farewell speech to Congress this week, asked 32 thought-provoking questions addressed to his fellow Americans. It’s very clear upon examination of these questions that something is very wrong with our government. Below are his questions:
2012 Robert Steele: Addressing the Seven Sins of Foreign Policy — Why Defense, Not State, Is the Linch Pin for Global Engagement
Short Persistent URL: http://tinyurl.com/Kerry-Flournoy I wrote this with John Kerry and Michele Flourney in mind, but regardless of who is eventually made Secretary of Defense, the core concept remains: the center of gravity for massive change in the US Government and in the nature of how the US Government ineracts with the rest of the …
Review: We Can All Do Better
Bill Bradley 3.0 out of 5 stars Shallow Book, Old Think, He Quit the Fight to Join the Worst of the Wall Street Manipulators,November 15, 2012 This book makes me very angry. My step-father and I both believed in Bill Bradley a decade ago, and today I feel about him the way I feel about …
Owl: $20 Table Storms the World — Four Million Back Ordered
How a $20 tablet from India could blindside PC makers, educate billions and transform computing as we know it “This is going to be revolutionary for the developing world” On Sunday Nov. 11, the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, will have unveiled the seven-inch Aakash 2 tablet computer Tuli’s company is selling to the government …
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