Event: 29-30 April, Nottingham UK History of the CIA

MAJOR CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CIA – 29/30 APRIL 2011 “LANDSCAPES OF SECRECY: THE CIA IN HISTORY, FICTION, AND MEMORY” VENUE: EAST MIDLANDS CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7RD, UK PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS UNIQUE CONFERENCE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Listen to top speakers, including Christopher Andrew, Nigel West, Robert Jervis …

Panarchy-Not Anarchy-Future of Global Governance

Panarchy is “a useful way of thinking about cross-scale dynamics in complex adaptive systems.”  Source Panarchy, in modern terms, is both an emerging theory of local to global relations spanning all current disciplines (e.g. economics, political science, sociology), and a public intelligence concept that posits non-violent collective intelligence, with access to all true cost information, …

Review: The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook–Guide for the Serious Searcher

Ran Hock 6 Stars–The ONE Essential Reference March 13, 2011 I’ve known Ran Hock for close to twenty years, and now that Mary Ellen Bates (MEB) and Reva Basch are retired (see their last books below), Ran is more or less the last man standing in the independent information brokerage domain, at least that I …

Kajoo: Open Source Civic Engagement Platform

There is no info on the homepage yet but the press release is below – http://kajoo.org + the code is available at http://github.com/mjording/kajoo.org 10th March, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Source Civic Engagement Platform “Kajoo” ready to launch at SXSW 2011 is already the year of Internet-fuelled civic revolution. The immediacy and reach of the …