The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
MIT tool connects the dots of your life through Gmail metadata How much does the metadata gathered in your inbox reveal about you? Quite a lot, judging by what researchers at the MIT Media Lab have managed to accomplish with Immersion. They’ve built a web app that — once you grant it permission to do so …
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This is wonderful news. One of those little social acupunctures that allows the 99 per cent to speak out effectively — don’t buy their stuff. Go to: http://www.buycott.com/ to download. I urge all my readers to do so and shop accordingly. New Phone app Allows Users to Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto Products ARTURO GARCIA …
Big Data Philanthropy for Humanitarian Response My colleague Robert Kirkpatrick from Global Pulse has been actively promoting the concept of “data philanthropy” within the context of development. Data philanthropy involves companies sharing proprietary datasets for social good. I believe we urgently need big (social) data philanthropy for humanitarian response as well. Disaster-affected communities are increasingly the source …
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30+ Cool Content Curation Tools for Personal & Professional Use As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, “information overload” is something we all seem to suffer. It is becoming more difficult to weed through all the “stuff” out there and pluck out …
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Parag Khanna Extraordinary Personal Effort, Constrained by Publisher February 21, 2011 I received a copy of this book at my request from the author himself (I am unemployed, and globally available). I gave the author’s first book, The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century, a five star leaning …
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Data, Markets, and Power There’s an election Tuesday, and you’re probably going to vote – whether your vote is meaningful or not. Some call voting a “ritual,” which is not at all to say that it’s not meaningful – rituals do have meaning. But the word is that it’s a symbolic rather than functional, practical …
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EXTRACT: The article, “Supply Chain Management and Sustainability: Procrastinating Integration in Mainstream Research” presents the results of a study conducted by several university researchers in The Netherlands. The researchers noted that “procrastination can be viewed as the result of several processes, determined not only by individual personality, but also by the following factors: – availability …
