Jean Lievens: C. M. Rubin Interview Howard Rheingold on Global Search for (Digital) Education + PBI Meta

The Global Search for Education: Digital “We live in a world now where anybody can ask any question anywhere and get thousands of answers within seconds, but it is up to the questioner to determine which of those answers are legit, which are false, which are intentionally misleading.” — Howard Rheingold The literacies today: attention, …

Robert Steele: Open Source Intelligence 101 (Intelligence Tradecraft in the Third Millennium)

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert David Steele To appear in Intelligence Tradecraft for the Third Millennium (Romania) DOC (7 Pages): Open Source Intelligence 1.3 Intelligence is the art and science of evidence-based decision-support. Intelligence is not defined by its inputs (spies, secrecy, money, risk) but rather by its outputs – tailored actionable decision-support. In this …

Mongoose: 0.01% Own US Government — But 99% Could Easily Out-Spend, Not Just Out-Vote That Plutocratic Minority…

The Richest 0.01 Percent of Americans Gave 42 Percent of Political Donations in 2012 It should come as no surprise that policymakers look after the ultra-wealthy instead of the rest of us. By Stephen Wolf / DailyKos EXTRACT Candidates devote 80 percent of their time to begging rich people for money. Any extremist Republican can …