Jean Lievens: What Is The Future Of The Open Source Sharing Economy?

What’s the Future of the Sharing Economy? by SPARKS & HONEY CULTURAL STRATEGISTS October 15, 2013, 5:04 PM The Sharing Economy is a topic that has been garnering a lot of attention lately — from startups embracing the collaborative model to consumers embracing the age old “sharing is caring” philosophy when it comes to vacation …

Steve Aftergood: CIA Halts Public Access to Open Source Service

CIA HALTS PUBLIC ACCESS TO OPEN SOURCE SERVICE For more than half a century, the public has been able to access a wealth of information collected by U.S. intelligence from unclassified, open sources around the world.  At the end of this year, the Central Intelligence Agency will terminate that access. The U.S. intelligence community’s Open …

Stephen E. Arnold: President of Oracle on Open Source….

Unexpected Observations from the President of Oracle Perhaps the apparently incongruous remarks from Oracle president Mark Hurd foretell a shift in direction for his company. That was my thought when I read ReadWrite‘s piece, “Red Hat to Oracle: Have You Tried Free?” However, writer Matt Asay seems to see Hurd’s comments as either hypocritical or …

Open Mind: CIA PSYOP Against US Public – Labeling Truth-Seekers as “Conspiracy Theorists?”

CIA Responsible For Labeling Honest Research Into Finding the Truth As “Conspiracy Theories” Boy does this article by Foster  Gamble fit on this blogsite.  For more than 40 years anyone attempting to find out the truth about anything that the “controllers” wanted to keep secret, was labeled a “conspiracy theorist”.  Of course, then, propaganda was used …

Steven Aftergood: INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BUDGETS REVEALED IN WASHINGTON POST

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY BUDGETS REVEALED IN WASHINGTON POST Secret intelligence agency budget information was abundantly detailed in the Washington Post yesterday based on Top Secret budget documents released by Edward Snowden.  See “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary” by Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, Washington Post, August 29. The newly …