The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Many fear that the US is poised on the cusp of a second depression. Simon Johnson, on of the most astute observers of the current crisis, takes exception to this view by making an interesting comparison of the current economic slump to the busts of the 19th Century, particularly the long decline between 1873 and …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Great Depression II? Or Something Worse?”
Why Software Is Eating The World Wall Street Journal, 20 August 2011 EN ESPANOL DOCUMENTO 5 PAJINAS This week, Hewlett-Packard (where I am on the board) announced that it is exploring jettisoning its struggling PC business in favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to …
Continue reading “Marc Andreessen: US Education Crisis–Young and Old”
When ideas become powerful Why are we surprised that governments and organizations are lining up to control ideas and the way they spread? When power resided in property, governments and corporations became focused on the ownership, regulation and control of property. When power shifted to machines and interstate commerce, no surprise, the attention shifted as …
Continue reading “Seth Godin: When Ideas Become Powerful, the Dark Side”
Enterprise Open Source Intelligence Gathering – Part 1 Social Networks Posted by Tom on October 26, 2009 – 3:49 pm Note: the direct web version is nearly unreadable. A full copy is therefore provided below.
“Cook’s Collaborative Edge“ Where I have been Hiding — Struggling to tell the R&E Story to a Larger World Beginning last October and continuing through May I wrote a book part 1 and part 2 in which I have tried to examine Research and Education networks globally but with the primary emphasis on The Netherlands, …
Continue reading “Gordon Cook: Struggling to Advance the Internet”
Analyzing Satellite Imagery of the Somali Crisis Using Crowdsourcing EXTRACT: Here’s the plan. He talks to UNOSAT and Google about acquiring high-resolution satellite imagery for those geographic areas for which they need more information on. A colleague of mine in San Diego just launched his own company to develop mechanical turk & micro tasking solutions for disaster …
Continue reading “Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing Imagery Analysis”
Word Press cannot handle questions the way Google does. For this WordPress, OpenBTS by itself yields the best results for Phi Beta Iota: OpenBTS. See especially Range Networks: The ONLY OpenBTS Real Deal. We prize searches, for they add to the substance of this website, a form of co-creation. Below are some hits from outside …
Continue reading “Search: how to use openbts in individual phones”
