Yoda: Financial Times Loves Google — But Will This Love Keep Google Going?

FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page Even the search engine’s original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind Page estimates that only about 50 investors are chasing the real breakthrough technologies that have the potential to make a material difference to the lives of most people on …

Robert Steele: PBI at Twitter & Facebook, Robert at Twitter & LinkedIn

Phi Beta Iota is under a new management team and going to another level, at the same time that Earth Intelligence Network is revitalizing and I will be spending  time with a team recreating the very popular weekly global threat, policy, and demographic report. A sample from the past is below. PDBweekly20070716 Phi Beta Iota …

Robert Horn: Visualizing World’s Biggest Problems

Robert Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in public policy, organizational strategy, and knowledge management. These days, he deals mostly with social messes. Social messes are more than complicated problems. I define them as tightly interconnected clusters of wicked problems and other messes. They are very complex; ambiguous; highly constrained; seen differently …

Berto Jongman: Harvard to Journal Publishers – Piss Off! Open Access Here We Come…

Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to …

Robert Steele: REVOLUTION! The Open Source Everything Action Handbook [New Book, Winter Project]

My recent attendance at Findhorn’s New Story Summit, combined with my reading of two books, Micah Sifry’s The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet) and Darrell West’s Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, have come together to inspire a new book that seeks to unify the tribes with open source tools and …

Patrick Meier: UN Experts Meeting on Humanitarian UAVs

UN Experts Meeting on Humanitarian UAVs The Humanitarian UAV Network (UAViators) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) are co-organizing the first ever “Experts Meeting on Humanitarian UAVs” next month at UN Headquarters in New York. This full-day strategy meeting, which is co-sponsored by the ICT for Peace Foundation (ICT4Peace) and QCRI, will …