The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE of 16 October 2010: CrowdSourcing Conference Papers Online Is Microtask the Future of Work? GigaOm By Liz Gannes Oct. 8, 2010 Crowdsourcing is often used for fairly menial tasks: correcting databases, screening offensive images, transcribing audio. But what if you could make those little bits of human labor even more menial, discrete and interchangeable? That’s …
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From Fire Dog Lake No Logo Available Third Party Rising? By: Nancy Bordier Friday October 15, 2010 2:25 pm Eleven-Page 1997-2003 Paginated Word Document of Entire Piece Thomas Friedman wrote in a recent New York Times article, “Third Party Rising“, that he is “astounded” by the level of disgust with Washington D.C. and the two …
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I continue to hear military and civilian IC folks belittle Open Source. I passed this around to show them what can be done and all I get is the response, “this should be classified”. They cannot believe it is from purely open source data…..link provided due to size of document… The Haqqani Network: From Pakistan …
Animal Abuse Registry: Suffolk County, NY Creating Nation’s First Public Database Tracking Animal Cruelty Offenders FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — You’ve heard of Megan’s Laws, designed to keep sex offenders from striking again. Now there’s a law created in the hope of preventing animal abusers from inflicting more cruelty – or moving on to human victims. Suffolk …
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including …
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Witnesses in Defense Department Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9/11 Findings. A document obtained and witnesses interviewed by Fox News raise new questions over whether there was an effort by the Defense Department to cover up a pre-9/11 military intelligence program known as “Able Danger.” At least five witnesses questioned by the Defense Department’s Inspector General …
Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart Don’t talk to all your employees, all your users or all your prospects the same way, because they’re not the same. The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition posits that there are five stages people go through: 1. Novice –wants to be given a manual, told what to do, …
