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Mini-Me: Google Co-Founder on Web Freedom Facing Greatest Threat

Huh? Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ Ian Katz guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 April 2012 Sergey Brin says he and Google co-founder Larry Page would not have been able to create their search giant …

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Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

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Worth a Look: The Agency – 21st Century Change Agent

Interview with Jean Russell: How to Kickstart your Agency Engine agency :: the capacity of an agent (a person or other entity) to act in a world The concepts of individual and group agency are recurring themes around our virtual water cooler discussions of late. As eager change agents, edgeriders, and transitioners to a new world, …

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Tom Atlee: Rebecca Solnit on Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence — Occupy Heads into the Spring

Dear friends, Rebecca Solnit has written a great article on Occupy, relationships, differences, violence, and a lot more.  A potent, passionate framing for our times, worth a full, reflective read.  Note that the original is full of juicy links. Coheartedly, Tom ======== Mad, Passionate Love — and Violence: Occupy Heads into the Spring by Rebecca …

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2012 The Open Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (Evolver Editions, June 2012)

SHORT URL TO THIS PAGE: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele Updated 1 June 2012. WARNING:  The “free download” is a Chinese virus, generally identified across various websites with the preface (hotpdf).  Under the terms of the contact this book is NOT free online as with all of Robert Steele’s other books and publications. Extracts, Reviews, 33 Slides in Color, …

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Review: Too Big to Know – Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

David Weinberger 5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Enough to Shake the Most Obtuse Leaders, February 10, 2012 First the disclosures. I asked for a copy of this book to review, David Weinberger being one of my heroes and I being unemployed at this time. They gave it to me and now that I have …

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