Internet Freedom–The Public Dialog Continues

SOURCE: P2P Foundation Category:P2P Infrastructure This is a specialization of our general Technology section, focusing more explicitely on the ‘true internet’ or distributed P2P infrastructures.  It is being updated over the next week or so. On the overall perspective of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do, a meditation on the strategic phases …

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other …

DARPA as Poster Child for Out of Control Budget

From the inventors of McNamara’s electronic line (which failed spectacularly in Vietnam) comes the Electronic Coup/Revolution Predictor (EC/RP)!  This is explained below in the attached Wired report. The EC/RP is merely the latest effort in DARPA’s continuing campaign to overthrow Boyd’s Law* (i.e., Machines don’t fight war wars, people do, and they use their minds) by …

Khan Academy + BitTorrent Partner to Distribute Edu Videos

Khan Academy and BitTorrent Partner to Distribute Educational Videos by Audrey on 11. Feb, 2011 There’s a new app in BitTorrent’s recently released App Studio today, one that really exemplifies the importance of the BitTorrent technology — the ability to distribute large files to people with low-bandwidth: Khan Academy. The Khan Academy app will bring …