The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 5 Stars, Quick & Dirty Bright Light of Convergence,March 20, 2012 This book was brought to my attention by Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation and chief editor of its wiki. I follow him through Scoop.it and act instantly on his suggestions. The ideas in …
Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project as part of the university’s Climate Change and African Political Stability Program (CCAPS). Josh and …
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This is my favorite talk I’ve given so far. No notes, no real prep… just sharing my views about the web, the co-evolution of humanity and our technologies, and where we might be taking ourselves. “Fall Conference 2011 Introduction and Social Media and the Evolution of Consciousness, Presented on 10/15/11, Venessa Miemis Venessa Miemis is …
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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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Below by Nick Mendoza is recommended! Up front extract: With the decline of state capitalism, capitalist governments and corporations now dream of the internet as the tool for corporate growth through ontological colonialism, free to expand within the mind and the planet, exploiting everyone alike. Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a ‘Rights of the …
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Am reviving the Autonomous Internet Roadmap at the P2P Foundation. Found this in passing. Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS) at MIT Directly Related Projects Chord: Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Open DHT: A Publicly Accessible DHT Service Kademlia: XOR metric-based routing Coral: The NYU Distribution Network Ocean Store: Providing Global-Scale Persistent Data Pastry: An infrastructure for …
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Bypass the Internet! Amara D. Angelica Kurzweil Blog, January 30, 2012 I’m sick of hearing about how we need to cave into repressive governments and throttle back Google, Twitter, Facebook, and other information services and accept Web censorship and limits on free expression. Get the hell off my cloud. “If a full-surveillance world prevents us …
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