Micah Sifry 5.0 out of 5 stars Should Be Top Ten Book Across All Progressive Communities, October 5, 2014 This is one of the most useful important books I have read in the past couple of years, and I am stunned that the publisher has failed to properly present the book for purchase on Amazon. …
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This is a great blog post by Clark Quinn, e-learning guru whom I think highly of. His post talks about whether there is a science to learning (spoiler: there is) and how e-learning professionals should frame it as learning engineers. It got me wondering how content engineers and other technical communicators beyond those in the …
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I’ve been invited to participate in The New Story Summit in Scotland, and they are paying all expenses, which matters since I have no salary, no pensions, and no savings. The event is closed now to further registration, but open to any who wish to take advantage of the live streaming portions. For myself, with …
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(U) 2014 US National Intelligence Strategy STRIKE ONE: Refuses counterintelligence on domestic enemies. STRIKE TWO: Refuses Whole of Government. STRIKE THREE: Refuses Acquisition. The six sucking chest wounds identified in 1990 continue. HUMINT/CI are dead in the water, followed by OSINT and mature holistic analytics integrating true cost economics. We continue to process 1% of …
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The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 16, 2014 FACT SHEET: U.S. Response to the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa
Spy the Lie‘s techniue and informal logic work together to help us disinfect our infospheres from crap, bilious bombast, media-babble, disinformation campaigns, pseudoevents, and bad information of every stripe. These days common sense itself doesn’t cut it. We need tools! . . . . . . . In fact, we computing professionals have unwittingly made …
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