Howard Rheingold: Bottlenose Social Dashboard Beta

Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard Launches Private Beta Jon Mitchell ReadWriteWeb, December 12, 2011 In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services we …

Mini-Me: European-US Banking–Tangled Web — Tell Me Again, Why Shouldn’t We Default and Let the Banks Fry? + Financial Terrorism RECAP

The question has to be asked: “Why shouldn’t we default and let the banks fry?” What possible benefit it there to the people of a nation whose previous leaders “sold out” the entire country on the basis of lies from the banks, notably Goldman Sachs? Why not default and focus on full employment and resilience …

Theophilis Goodyear: Disposable Hero Body Parts — When Blind Collectives Run Amok

Remains of 274 US troops dumped in landfill: report Agence France Press, 8 December 2011 The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Read full article. Theophillis Goodyear Comments: No matter who is specifically …

David Swanson: History of Corporate Personhood — How Lewis Powell & US Chamber of Commerce Bought the US Supreme Court

The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court.  By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …

DefDog: SASC Questions Sanity of Pentagon InfoOps

The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations………… A speed bump for Pentagon’s information ops By Walter Pincus The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations. The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta …