Jean Lievens: Open Business Models by Creative Commons – Call for Participation

Creative Commons Launches Program to Identify, Share Open Business Models Creative Commons is developing an “open business models initiative” aimed at showing how Creative Commons licenses are being used by businesses, not-for-profits, and governments. According to Paul Stacey, Creative Commons’ associate director of global learning, one of the most asked questions by entrepreneurs to the Creative …

Jean Lievens: Can Analytics Save The Earth?

This Earth Day, Let’s Start Using Analytics To Conserve Energy The success of new energy projects relies on one crucial skill: the ability to derive insights from massive amounts of rapidly changing data. That’s why utilities and energy companies are adopting analytics to meet the rising demand for renewable energy from more sophisticated customers.

Robin Good: Tool to Import, Filter, Visualize, & Publish Any Spreadsheet Online – Silk

Import, Filter, Visualise And Publish Any Spreadsheet Online: Silk Silk is a web tool to publish online spreadsheet-based data on a specific topic. The service, which just released a new version of its offering, allows to easily convert any existing data-set into professional-looking data displays, charts, grids, and lists that can be embedded on any …

Search: negative reviews lessons not learned us navy status quo and culture

Complex searches do not work with Word Press but simple ones do.  Robert Steele has not reviewed this book but provides the link to an earlier guest review here an amplifying comment below the fold with many links. A search result that works: < Review Lessons Not Learned > Review (Guest): Lessons Not Learned – …

Patrick Meier: Nepal Humanitarian UAV Lessons Learned — A Long Way to Go — Internet Pipe is Achilles Heel.

Humanitarian UAV Missions in Nepal: Early Observations Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read.  We are reminded of DARPA’s STRONG ANGEL and note with interest that the Internet being down in Nepal makes a lot of the UAV collection irrelevant — sort of like NSA’s global collection that is not processed and 99% of “big …

Michael Kearns: Recommended Book “Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation”

Professor Shane O’Mara, Director of the Trinity College – Dublin Neuroscience Lab, is having his new book published. A very powerful message to the Bush OLC Lawyers who looked into SERE technuques… they damage the brain when applied over time. Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O’Mara writes in …