20120706 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year Radical Openness: 5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal Open Source UK teachers are free to choose open source curriculum The Open Source Balance at Banks Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FOSS, FLOSS, F/OSS) FLOSS Manuals’ Fee-based Online Books Complement …

20120629 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything – Open Source Anatomy Of An Open Source Acquisition: From GlusterFS To Red Hat Storage Open Management Interface (OMI) – open-source implementation of DMTF CIM/WBEM standards Red Hat details next Linux and storage platforms for cloud, big data era The Linux desktop, thanks to Chromebooks, goes retail Why is innovation difficult?

2012 Reality Sandwich: How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny

How I Tested the Boundaries of the Two-Party Tyranny Robert David Steele Vivas Reality Sandwich, 24 May 2012 For six weeks in early 2012 I ran for the office of President of the United States of America.  I was accepted by the Reform Party (one of six accredited national parties completely shut out of the …

Review: The Zen Leader – 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly

Ginny Whitelaw 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars, Spectacularly SImple, Foundation Book for Epoch B Collective Self-Governance,May 21, 2012 I’ve been a driven over-achiever most of my life, and only started emerging from the “because I said so” culture so characteristic of the Marine Corps and the Central Intelligence Agency, when I realized in …

Penguin: Cataloging Wounds of War to Help Heal Them — Not Big Data, Not Small Data, But Rather Integrated “Smart” Data

Cataloging Wounds of War to Help Heal Them By C. J. CHIVERS New York Times,  May 17, 2012 FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — To those unfamiliar with a battlefield’s bleak routine, Col. Michael D. Wirt’s database could be read like a catalog of horrors. In it, more than 500 American soldiers are subjected to characteristic forms …

Review: Hard Measures – How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives

Jose Rodriguez and Bill Harlow 3.0 out of 5 stars 5 as Personal Memoir, 1 for Nonsense About “Hard Measures”, May 3, 2012 As a memoir of time in the CIA bureaucracy and occasional righteous deeds in the field, the book is a must read along with a handful of others by former case offices …