The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
How To Use Technology To Counter Rumors During Crises: Anecdotes from Kyrgyzstan Patrick Meier | March 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm | Tags: rumors, Skype, SMS, validation | Categories: Crowdsourcing, Digital Activism, New Media | URL: http://wp.me/pecFU-1n8 I just completed a short field mission to Kyrgyzstan with UN colleagues and I’m already looking forward to …
The Atomic Cafe: Lampooning America’s Nuclear Obsession By Maria Popova What vintage bomb survival suits have to do with Dr. Stragelove and Richard Nixon. The recent tragedy in Japan has triggered a tsunami of terror, founded and unfounded, about the potential risks of nuclear reactors. While there are people better equipped than us to explain …
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The simple two-step process Step one: Open all doors. Learn a little about a lot. Consider as many options as possible, then add more. Step two: Relentlessly dismiss, prune and eliminate. Choose. Ship. The problem most people run into is that they mix the steps and confuse them. During step one, they aren’t open enough, …
Daniel Ellsberg, Ph.D. (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other …
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Ms. Carol Dumaine is one of a very small number of individuals who have sought to pursue what Gifford Pinchot calls “intrapreneurship,” but on a global scale. She first came to international attention when she pioneered Global Futures Partnership, an analytic endeavor seeking to enhance outreach and cross-fertilization across varied communities of practice. She received …
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How News Organizations Should Prepare for Data Dumps PBS MediaShift Idea Lab 2 August 2010 by Martin Moore 5 Questions Here are just five (of many) questions news orgs should ask themselves when they get their next data dump: 1. How do we harness public intelligence to generate a long tail of stories? Though the …
Public Intelligence: How It Can Work Written by Seth Grimes 10/20/2009 I’ve been contemplating the notion of “public intelligence” in the context of government transparency. Public documents and data play a lead role for both government and non-governmental organizations alike. They create an Internet data space that offers information about public concerns, while at the …
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