Rickard Falkvinge: BitCoin Bank “Loses” One Billion Dollars — Complete Knowledge Lacking

Gox Goes Belly-up After Losing A Billion Dollars Without Noticing; Blames Fault In Corporate Bookkeeping Protocols Cryptocurrency:  So it’s more or less official: MtGox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has died and taken all its holdings with it to the grave. This follows a long string of evasive statements, silence, and strange behavior from …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Continues to Capture and Pollute World of Knowledge

The Growth of Google’s Knowledge Graph The article titled How a Database of the World’s Knowledge Shapes Google’s Future on MIT Technology Review is an explanation of Google’s Knowledge Graph and the progress made in compiling information to feed into it. The Knowledge Graph began as a database built by Metaweb, which Google acquired in …

Event: Free 18 Feb 14 Webinar “Transforming Libraries: KM and Knowledge Services: Consensus or Simply Shared Principles?” with Guy St. Clair

Soutron Global is pleased to invite you to an exclusive free webinar with our guest speaker Guy St. Clair, President and Consulting Specialist for Knowledge Services at SMR International in New York, NY. Guy’s subject for the webinar is: Transforming Libraries: KM and Knowledge Services: Consensus or Simply Shared Principles? Date: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 …

Jean Lievens: The War on Knowledge — The Year Hacktivists and the Government Went to War

The Year Hacktivists And The Government Went To War Gerry Smith Huffington Post, 20 December 2013 Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University, wrote in The Nation that the prosecution of hacktivists was part of “a war on knowledge” that extends beyond hackers to include Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who exposed government secrets. …

Event: 25 OCT 13 Austria Online Knowledge is Power, Open Knowledge is Empowerment — Wikipedia, Wikileaks, and Open Source Intelligence

„Knowledge is power“ is the credo of enlightened modernism. However, Michel Foucault proclaims that whoever is in power determines which knowledge prevails in society, and ultimately this is the only knowledge that we have access to. It is certain that knowledge and power are closely interrelated, and that power relations in a society heavily depend …