The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: All Opens Below Line Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost
President Obama Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Improve Intel Monitoring: Sez Head of White House Communications Agency WASHINGTON: When the Presidential Daily Briefing occurs, a top intelligence official traditionally hands the president a folder with a sheaf of paper inside. The president may read what’s inside or have it presented by the intelligence official. Then comes …
Open Source Everything TWITTER HASH: #openall ARCHIVE OF DAILY HIGHLIGHTS: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON: http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012 TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: All Opens Below Line Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost
Expanding our capacity for “unitary democracy” Below are highlights from Jane Mansbridge’s IN CONTEXT article “Unitary & Adversary: The Two Forms of Democracy”, which was itself an excerpt from her book BEYOND ADVERSARY DEMOCRACY (1983) which has had a significant impact on my thinking. I often use Mansbridge’s distinction between (1) “unitary democracy” based on …
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Evaluating the Impact of SMS on Behavior Change The purpose of PeaceTXT is to use mobile messaging (SMS) to catalyze behavior change vis-a-vis peace and conflict issues for the purposes of violence prevention. You can read more about our pilot project in Kenya here. We’re hoping to go live next month with some initial trials. In …
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Data Journalism Handbook The Data Journalism Handbook is a free open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism. It was born at a 48 hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. It subsequently spilled over into an international, collaborative effort involving dozens of data journalism’s leading advocates and best …
From Search to Prediction The economic vise is closing on some search and content processing vendors. There are some significant repositioning’s underway. We are working on three at this time, and, believe me, the vendors are doing more than changing the color of the logo. As we work on our projects, we have been aware …
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