Public Intelligence Blog – Page 2012 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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Curate Your Own Wiki-Guide with the Wikipedia Book Create Tool

Few people know that it is actually possible to curate Wikipedia content into custom print books or PDF / OpenDocument ebooks that contain exactly the content you want in the order you specify.

Once you are logged into Wikipedia you simply activate the Book Creator Tool and then, from that moment on, everytime you visit a Wikipedia page you can click and add it to your curated Wiki-Book.

There is also a dedicated wiki page where you can manage the pages you have collected and you can reorganized and sort them any way you want, eliminating the pages you don't need.

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2014/01/24

SchwartzReport: CITIZENS UNITED Treason Playing Out at State Level Now

Commerce, Corruption, Government

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Citizens United is perhaps the the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott v. Sandford. One resulted in a Civil War, the other is destroying democracy. I am astonished how little citizen outcry there is about this. The pernicious effects have extended into the State level, which is even more vulnerable to influence and money. Having met a considerable number of them over the years I would observe State legislators, as a rule, are not very sophisticated in governance. Everything is more naked. And if there are term limits its even worse. The real power comes to reside in a permanent civil service that become tightly interlinked with special interests. And the effect on a state elective judiciary is proving to be devastating.

Four Years After Citizens United: Is Campaign Cash Buying Justice in State Courts?
MIKE LUDWIG – Truthout

2014/01/232014/01/23

Review: 24 Carat BOLD – Claim Your Position as the Top Expert in Your Field

4 Star, Best Practices in Management

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

4.0 out of 5 stars Concise, Clear, Logical, Missing the Magic Sauce, January 23, 2014

I read this book and have ordered a book recommended by this author, Ron Brown's How to Build Your Reputation.

Having published nine books myself, I am a little jaded when someone says “write a book and be recognized.” However, I do like this book. It has a clear message, it is concise, it is very well written, and on balance I think it provides anyone interested in becoming “known” with a very fine starting point.

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2014/01/232014/01/23

Worth a Look: Beyond Transparency – Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

5 Star, Data, Information Operations, Information Society, Information Technology, Worth A Look

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by Brett Goldstein (Editor) , Lauren Dyson (Contributor)

The rise of open data in the public sector has sparked innovation, driven efficiency, and fueled economic development. While still emerging, we are seeing evidence of the transformative potential of open data in shaping the future of our civic life, and the opportunity to use open data to reimagine the relationship between residents and government, especially at the local level. As we look ahead, what have we learned so far from open data in practice and how we can apply those lessons to realize a more promising future for America’s cities and communities?
Edited by Brett Goldstein, former Chief Data Officer for the City of Chicago, with Code for America, this book features essays from over twenty of the world’s leading experts in a first-of-its-kind instructive anthology about how open data is changing the face of our public institutions.Contributors include:

Michael Flowers, Chief Analytics Officer, New York City
Beth Blauer, former director of Maryland StateStat
Jonathan Feldman, CIO, City of Asheville
Tim O’Reilly, founder & CEO, O’Reilly Media
Eric Gordon, Director of Engagement Game Lab, Emerson College
Beth Niblock, CIO, Louisville Metro Government
Ryan & Mike Alfred, Co-Founders, Brightscope
Emer Coleman, former director of the London Datastore
Mark Headd, Chief Data Officer, City of Philadelphia

2014/01/23

Owl: Ralph Nader on Internet Wrongful Secrecy, Snares and Delusions

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency

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Expect to Get “Mice Print” or Little or Nothing When Looking for Public Information

Ralph Nader debunks a major myth about the Internet: the assumption that government and important public information is accessible or easily so. As he shows, in many cases, not so at all:

“Information technology (IT), now the supplier of millions of jobs, does not have its own value-based imperative. The power structure is very selective about what this technology can access so as to keep the power in its concentrating corporate and governmental hands. For an example, you need only look to how franticly government agencies react when whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden tear aside the curtains and reveal widespread mischief or criminal activity.

Consider a sample of what a selective information age keeps away from our fingertips, away from the Cloud, and away from your smartphones:

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2014/01/232014/01/23

Freedom: Delete Your Google+

07 Other Atrocities

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This is the page where you can delete your Google+ profile.

We recommend this. Just as Microsoft writes buggy code that hogs hardware resources, so also does Google+ burden you with “overhead” that slows everything down.

And of course Google is the new NSA….

On YouTube, you need to re-enable your individual videos. Better yet, give up anything associated with Google and try other options.

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en

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