The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Everybody’s head is a strange universe filled with echos of voices they’ve heard over and over again. Against this, we try to manifest our intentions, to persuade with more voice, more conversation. Sometimes we get through, but even when we get through, we’re often filtered, just as we’re filtering. Is it any wonder that it’s …
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Technology, politics, and balance by jonl When Mitch Ratcliffe and I published Extreme Democracy in 2005, the question came up whether the discussion of politics and social technology was technoutopian. Without getting into the specifics of the book (which included diverse articles, some more positive than others about the potential role of what we now …
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EXTRACT I: I walked into SXSW with a sense that the world is profoundly changing, with the change driven by forces, not by people. It felt like I was in a bubble where time and the world had frozen, a world with its own laws driven by old-school capitalism and marketing. A very pleasant world …
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Who says the web is dead? Drupal and WordPress The Internet matures Social media, ugh. Facebook, The Social Network, my newfound respect for Zuckerberg. It’s the stupid economy Obama under attack Rethinking journalism Wikileaks raises questions about transparency. Read paragraph on each at source….
Jon’s bio is under the photo. He is one of the originals, including a book co-edited with Mitch Ratcliffe (a co-founder of Earth Intelligence Network), Extreme Democracy (Lulu.com, 2004). Below is his latest update. Irons in the fire: Plutopia Productions projects are on fire… including the Plutopia 2011 event during SXSW and the Plutopia News …
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The Internet inherits war Bruce Schneier at Technology Review: Arms races are fueled by two things: ignorance and fear. We don’t know the capabilities of the other side, and we fear that they are more capable than we are. So we spend more, just in case. The other side, of course, does the same. That …
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Phi Beta Iota: For a half century the US Intelligence Community has “pushed” hard target “intelligence” downstream while refusing to do Global Coverage. In the late 1980’s it started to hear customer complaints about wanting to “pull” relevant information. Today the US Intelligence Community is completely isolated from 90% or so of the direct end-users, …
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