Worth a Look: EarthAccounting.com
Earth Intelligence, Worth A Look
WHAT IF:
. Consumers had a tool to tell quickly and easily tell, at the time of purchase, if the product or production methods resulted in significant adverse environmental or social impact?
. The complex information of this impact could be presented by as a scoring based personalized set of preferences?
. People finally had an economic tool which through purchase would compel corporate practices toward sustainability not just profit?
This website contains a recently patented tool called the Universal Ecolabel which can perform all these functions and more. It even allows the individual consumer to monitor his total personal/family environmental footprint over time.
In coming months interactive website activities are envisioned that will provide consumers the opportunity to educate themselves and others as well as contribute to a growing body of sustainability knowledge
Tip of the Hat to Medard Gabel.
Michel Bauwens: Emergence, Crisis, Replacement
Cultural Intelligence
Emergence, Crisis, and Replacement of the Era of Decentralized Networks
āTechnology, and particularly communications technology, generates the conditions of possibility for changes in power structures. Daniel R. Headrick argues in The Tools of Empire that 19th century European imperialism, which at one point controlled three quarters of the surface of the Earth, only became possible when transport and communications technology resulted in the establishment of economic networks [ā¦] After all, before a colony could become valuable and annexed to a European economy, a communication and transport network had to be laid.
>Via jean lievens
Moment 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Networks;Ā Moment 2: The Crisis of Decentralized Networks; Moment 3, the beginning of the transition: Hacker Culture as the successor to the decentralized systems era
DefDog: Sanitize Office – Remove personal metadata
IO Privacy
Sanitize Office: How to remove personal metadata
NetworkWorld, Thu, 05/31/12
Do you ever sanitize Microsoft Office products? Have you ever stopped to consider the potential privacy risk from personal metadata that is embedded in Microsoft Office products? Hereās how to remove it
Yesterday Microsoft announced Office 365 for Government. Since “security and privacy play a big role in any decision to move to the cloud,” the feds' version will reside on separate servers than from the standard Office 365 users. Like Google has done in the past with Data Liberation, Microsoft Office 365 Trust Center offers customers the option to download “a copy of all of your data at any time and for any reason.” On the same “it's your data” portability page, it states “To download a copy of end-user metadata (such as email address, first and last name, etc.), you can use Powershell cmdlets, including the Get-MsolUser Windows Powershell cmdlet. If you use Exchange Online, you can also utilize the Get-MailUser and Get-User Exchange Powershell commands.”
While Get-User Identity is a handy optional command, there are other times when users do not stop to think about the potential privacy risk from personal metadata that is embedded in Microsoft Office products.
The NSA tackled the subject years ago with a document called Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized Reports Converted from Word to PDF [PDF]. Metadata has the potential for “exposing information unintentionally.”
20120627 Open Source Everything Highlights
Highlights
Brazil's Open-Government Shock Treatment
Brightcove Open Sources App Cloud, Bets Big On Dual-Screen Apps For AppleĀ TV
Citizen apps ā enough to monitor open government?
Digital visibility is king but what colour is our Open Access future?
Hackerspaces, makerspaces, DIYbio community survey
IBM: Open source is not winning the war in virtualization, cloud … yet
Open Communication and Open Society
Open Courseware: MIT Open Courseware ā Computer System Engineering
Open Education: Open Source Education & Training Tools
Open Education: Why Open Education MattersĀ (Video)
Open Government: State court: Government canāt charge for redactions
Open Mobile: Hereās what Qualcomm thinks your phone shouldĀ do
Open Science: App Connects Rare Disease Researchers to Data
Open Science:Ā Cray to Deploy Cascade System at DOE Center
Open Society:Ā When Development Meets Security: Challenges to Open Societies in Africa
Open Standards: More technology, more connectivity challenges
Open Textbooks:Ā The Cost of College: Open Access Textbooks Cutting the Bookstore Bill by 80%
Open your minds and share your results
Red Hat introduces comprehensive open hybrid cloud solutions portfolio
Red Hat: Open source is driving innovation and the information economy — but battle is not over
Taking āutmost transparencyā to the next level ā at4am for all!
Wikigrid – a platform for research in the Digital Humanites
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David Isenberg: Intelligence for the 99%
Manifesto Extracts
Intelligence for the 99 Percent
David Isenberg
Huffington Post, 27 June 2012
As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about the three Ds (Death, Doom, and Destruction) of international geopolitics I often ponder the way policymakers get their information. Admittedly, there are all sorts of ways to get information but for people in government it means only one thing, the intelligence community..
And when you reflect on the IC all sorts of other questions comes to mind; are taxpayers getting good value for the money, is the IC working effectively, can it be improved, how can it, and, perhaps most important, is there a better way?
That last point brings to mind a new book, THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO – Transparency, Truth, & Trust” by Robert David Steele
He is a former CIA clandestine services case officer, as well as a Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer for twenty years. He has promoted the use of open source intelligence (OSINT) for decades. He also runs the most informative Public Intelligence blog.
He has long argued that U.S. intelligence reform is needed and that the private sector can fulfill U.S. OSINT needs more capably and less expensively than the government can.
In other words, if a formal intelligence system is for the one percent, OSINT is for the ninety nine percent.
Robert Steele: Landmark Forum Trip Report
07 Health, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
UPDATE 28 June: Added Linked-In Exchange at End of Post
Landmark Forum 001
First, I want to thank Bob for making this experience possible.Ā I am about to go into an intense three-day boot camp but have already gotten my first insight from a meeting last night.
“Accept responsibility for how you are heard, not for what you say.”
Duh.Ā Not so obvious to me.Ā I have gone my whole life assuming that I should put what I think on the table and rely on others to triage, ingest, etc.Ā So this is my first big insight, the undertone is that your body language is part of how you are heard and obvious impatience, which I have already been trying to curb, is a downer.
I will not return as Miss Congeniality, but I am certainly going to return vastly more sensitive to effect rather than intent.
Landmark Forum 002
This is exhausting.Ā It is also very worthwhile, and the course does NOT impose any restrictions on going to the bathroom or taking an urgent phone call, nor does the course force everyone to expose their innermost concerns.Ā In a class of about 120, there are ample volunteers for the training points to be made.Ā At no time did I feel, observe, or hear anyone else observe, that the course was over-bearing.
Day One focused on three big things:
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