Howard Rheingold: Filtering – from Information Deluge to Context with JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami’s thoughtful series of blog posts on the why and how of filtering online info-flows is a fundamental infotention text. Instead of Scooping all seven, I’ve Scooped this blog post by Jon Reed that summarizes and links to all seven parts. Filtering JP Rangaswami – from information deluge to context Jon Reed diginomica, 7 …

Rickard Falkvinge: More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It

More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It Infrastructure – Zacqary Adam Green: Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL. While thousands of salaried NSA personnel search for bugs like these to exploit, OpenSSL has only four …

Owl: Nevada Set to Explode — Every Cop a Target – Feds Tazer Son – Nevada State Officials Blast Federal Idiocy – Country Commissioner Corruption In Question

Note this comment after a recent article on this in Alex Jones: “When the pigs start killin…..the state of Nevada will ignite…..no cop anywhere will be safe, black, white, whatever….we all know who the MAN is, and we will unite and we will strike back, everywhere……” What is most striking to me in the videos …

Yoda: US Government Gets It Right on Open Data

Open Data Law Aims To Demystify Federal Spending Landmark DATA legislation, near passage, would transform the US government’s spending information from a maze of confusing documents into easily accessible open data. Both houses of Congress stand poised to pass a law three years in the making that would standardize how the federal government’s spending data …

4th Media: Latin America Chooses Russian Weapons Systems — De-Americanization Proceeds Apace

Latin America Chooses Russia-Made Weapons Nil Nikandrov Latin American experts know it well – Russia-made weapons are known for quality. Rosoboronexport (the state intermediary agency for Russia’s exports/imports of defense-related products, technologies and services) has rich experience of doing deals in the Western Hemisphere – from Mexico to Chile. Its efforts have not gone down …

Mini-Me: Malaysian Airlines Cargo Manifest SECRET

Huh? MH370′s cargo hold manifest still under lock and key by Malaysian officials http://b4in.info/jWtv At this time it is unknown how long it will take for the cargo hold manifest to be released publicly. Despite previous requests from Australian search and rescue crews, Malaysian authorities are still refusing to relinquish flight 370′s cargo hold manifest …