Howard Rheingold: 30+ Cool Content Creation Tools

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 …

Howard Rheingold: Discovery Engines Trying–and Failing

Infotention “Managing attention & information” Created and curated by Howard Rheingold Discovery Engines: Policing The Riot Of Information Overload | Fast Company Taming this torrent into something manageable and highly relevant is increasingly seen as the key for Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and any other chaotic content network looking to realize monster revenue. That explains why …

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Louis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn is a young computer scientist working at the intersection of cryptography, artificial intelligence, and natural intelligence to address problems of profound theoretical and practical importance.  Focusing on the 9 billion hours a year that people play solitaire, he has conceptualized means of harnessing that “cognitive surplus” to accomplish important micro-tasks, such as …

Webster Tarpley: Libya NATO Invades with Ground Troops, Fake Village for Fake Massacre

Dr. Webster Tarpley Analysis: “This is an exercise in mass brainwashing” “Everything you see from here is a big lie. People have got to bear this in mind. It’s all fake. There’s a fake, Libyan town that’s been built in Qatar, and they can stage a Hollywood-style massacre in such a place, and say, ‘Now, …

Steven Howard Johnson: Reflections on OSINT

Phi Beta Iota:  Mr. Johnson is the author of Integrity at Scale, free online, whose many ideas are being integrated into the vision for a Smart Nation Act and the hub of the Smart Nation, an Open Source Agency and global Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) network of networks.  He is a …