The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Motherboard TV: Free the Network Posted by Brian_Anderson on Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your information from Point A to Point B. Fire off an email or a tweet, broadcast a livestream or upload video …
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Diplomacy is one of those jobs where you actually have to be present on scene to do it. One key point that Ms. Schake does not mention is that a principal reason military is playing a dominant role right now is that Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) are not volunteering for the hardship — such as Baghdad …
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Twitter, Crises and Early Detection: Why “Small Data” Still Matters My colleagues John Brownstein and Rumi Chunara at Harvard University’s HealthMap project are continuing to break new ground in the field of Digital Disease Detection. Using data obtained from tweets and online news, the team was able to identify a cholera outbreak in Haiti weeks before health officials acknowledged the problem publicly. …
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50 (mostly) free social media tools you can’t live without in 2012 18th March 2012 by Adam Vincenzini A couple years ago, Jay Baer wrote a great blog post called ‘The 39 social media tools I’ll use today’ which was an all-in-one toolkit for social media marketers (and still is). A lot has changed in the …
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Inside the Kurzweil SXSW Keynote: On Infinite Mind Power, Robotic Overlords and Immortality He is one of the world’s most renowned futurists, and onstage at South By Southwest, Ray Kurzweil stirred debate with a speech that outlined the incredible role artificial intelligence will play in the future, as it reshapes humanity South By Southwest Interactive …
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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation Aljazeera – Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:24 GST Chiang Mai, Thailand – Last week I discussed the value crisis of contemporary capitalism: the broken feedback loop between the productive publics who create exponentially increasing use value, and those who capture this value through social media – …
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A New Service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books Gary Price From a OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) News Release: OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited …
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