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Journal: Ending Rankism & Rule by Secrecy

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Blog: Somebodies and Nobodies: Dignity for All

September 25, 2009, Addiction

Why Do We Want To Be Famous? Fame promises an escape from ghettos, both real and imagined.

Like liberty, we're often unaware of dignity until we lose it. A hint of disrespect may be a test of our resistance to subservience, or a reminder of our place in the hierarchy. A slight is often a precursor to pigeon-holing us as a nobody.

Rankism and its counterpart–the miasma of malrecognition–lie at the source of much of the social dysfunction that now vexes human societies worldwide. Effective policies to overcome school failure, poverty, chronic disease, criminality, discrimination against women, terrorism, and war require a redistribution of recognition and the de-legitimization of rankism.

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Worth a Look: 129 Public Benefit Research and Public Policy Institutions, With No Information-Sharing or Aggregate Sense-Making, i.e. All Noise No Signal

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129 Think Tanks
129 Think Tanks

Charity Navigator has been on our list of Righteous Sites from the beginning.  Today we want to highlight their listing and ratings of 129 “think tanks” or Research and Public Policy Institutes ostensibly committed to the Public Benefit.

Of course we all know that most of these are driven by either ideology or corporate funding to achieve pre-conceived ends, but that does not lessen their value.  What lessens the value of the whole is that there is no public intelligence capability for aggreagating all that these “think tanks” produce, so that citizens can “make sense” out of the aggregate, have an appreciative inquiry and deliberative dialog, and then reach a sustainable (i.e. affordable) consensus on the entire spectrum of issues affectiing the public.

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Journal: Six Big Issues Media Ignoring

Civil Society, Ethics, Government, Policies, Threats, True Cost
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Uncle Sam Today

There are six  big issues in the United STATES of America that the media is ignoring.  Among the Members of Congress, only one, Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX-22), speaks publicly and coherently about these issues.  Here they are:

1)  The Power to Wage War. This is vested in Congress and has been abdicated to the Executive.

2)  The Power of the Purse. This is vested in Congress and has been abdicated to the Executive.

3)  Consent of the Senate. This is the new issue, that of “czars” unconfirmed by the Senate who have broad powers (or are merely very bad impotent theater, depending on your perspective).

4)  Of, By, and For the People I. Corporate Personality and the legitimacy–or illegitimacy–of corporate spending on campaigns combined with the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the two-party tyranny, demand scrutiny by the public and finally–decades late–concerted public decision on how “it is supposed to be” in order to be consistent with the vision of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution of the United STATES of America.

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Journal: Why G-20 Is Dying Not Reforming

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Policies
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SNAP ANALYSIS: New world economic order takes shape at G20

By Lesley Wroughton Fri Sep 25, 2009

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to a draft communique.

Phi Beta Iota: G-20 along with the International Monetary Fund (IMB) and the World Bank are headed for a rude decline in the next decade.  What matters now is NOT trade in industrial era terms (that ignored “true cost”) but rather population and the potential of that population to create wealth.  Here's our take, followed by a new book we recommend, and several categories of books that we have reviewed that bear on this matter.

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Event: 29 Oct 2009, Kuala Lumpur Computerworld Malaysia Forum: Cloud Computing 2009

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Event Description: Where’s My Money?“Over the next five years, IDC expects spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold, reaching US$42 billion by 2012 and accounting for 9 per cent of revenues in five key market segments. More importantly, spending on cloud computing will accelerate throughout the forecast period, capturing 25 per cent of IT spending growth in 2012 and nearly a third of growth the following year,” declares custom research company IDC in a press release it issued in October last year.

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Reference: Cloud Computing 1.0 25 Sep 09

Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Key Players, Methods & Process, Mobile, Policies, Policy, Real Time, Reform, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools, True Cost
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Could Computing 101
Could Computing 101

There are at least two organized gangs in cloud computing, with several more emerging in the wings.  This is a first cut at what we have in play.

Below the fold are a list of members of the Infrastructure 2.0 Gang and the Cloud Connect Gang, followed by a number of headlines from 2007 to date that comprise a rapid read-in.

As with the origin of computers, when librarians were not consulted, the focus on these gangs is on technical connectivity and related issues (e.g. authentication, security), and NOT on information-sharing and sense-making as the ultimate objective.

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Event: 15-18 Mar 2010 Santa Clara, CA Cloud Connect The Anti-Google

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PHI BETA IOTA :  Cloud Connect is about “pay as you go” services.

Event Gains Momentum with Cloud Computing Leaders on Board and IBM Diamond Sponsorship

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ — TechWeb, producers of Cloud Connect, today announce the event's elite list of advisory board members, including cloud computing leaders from Cisco, HP, IBM, McAfee and Microsoft. Cloud Connect is a premier technology event helping to drive the understanding and adoption of Cloud Computing to key audiences. The event is taking place March 15-18, 2010 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, CA. For more information, visit: www.cloudconnectevent.com.

Cloud Connect is the meeting place for the cloud technology community and provides the forum for the most powerful cloud innovations and solutions. The event will examine critical aspects of cloud computing through keynotes, panel discussions, demonstrations, and insightful interviews with the people shaping the cloud computing industry.

Click here to read the press release listing names of all those on the advisory board.