The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
NOTICE: Within DoD, at least all elements of the Army as well as the Marine Corps Reserve have been given direct, unqualified, written orders not to access the Wikileaks site or read the Wikileaks document via any Government **OR** non-Government computer. This Rolling Update complies with the DoD guidance. Friday 5 November 2010 WikiLeaks Incidents May …
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This clearly defines the stakes on 2 NOV American Hero (YouTube) Phi Beta Iota: The Editorial Board reviewed this. This site is strictly non-partisan; political propaganda is pointed out not to endorse it, but to highlight the depth of what one author calls Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. …
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Steven Berlin Johnson: good ideas by jonl on October 25, 2010 On October 20, I caught Steven Johnson’s talk at Book People in Austin. I’ve known Steven since the 90s – we met when he was operating Feed Magazine, one of the early web content sites. After Feed, Steven created a second content site, actually …
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Chris Elam Program Director, Meatless Monday Posted: October 25, 2010 10:13 AM Short Film Reveals The Secret Life of Beef Livestock today consume 5 times as much grain as the entire American population, the average meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to fork, and seven football fields’ worth of land is bulldozed every minute to …
The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation Jennifer Preece, University of Maryland1 Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland2 Abstract Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product …
Berkeley Bionics: Introducing eLEGS Phi Beta Iota: This is an inspiring story in the context of unlimited wealth and no attention to the needs of the five billion poor–another example of multi-million dollar innovation for the one billion rich when the five billion poor need a two dollar fridge or a single shirt that can …
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A recent Microsoft video suggests the company considers OpenOffice.org a significant threat to its own Office suite. Titled “A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org,” the video features a series of horror stories from customers who tried the open-source productivity suite and suffered from excess costs as well as IT resources, performance and compatibility issues. A series …
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