The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The future of global online journalism by jonl on April 3, 2011 (Update: Alfred Hermida blogs Vivian Schiller’s 7 reasons to be cheerful about journalism at Reportr.net.) The evolution of networked global communication infrastructures is disrupting and changing delivery of news and the way journalists work. While some publishers have been wringing hands and tearing …
Infinite Games by jonl on March 29, 2011 Via Flemming Funch, a review of “Finite and Infinite Games – A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility” by James P. Carse: “A finite game is a game that has fixed rules and boundaries, that is played for the purpose of winning and thereby ending the …
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Program as of March 2011 Phi Beta Iota: Those organizing, and those named as confirmed and invited, are the “creme de la creme” of the old regimes. There isnt’ a hacker, autonomous internet, cloud, anonymous/transparency, open anything participant in the whole lot. And the youth–by invitation only, as if the organizers have any legitimacy among …
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I am cheerfully optimistic that truth and trust will be the common currency of the 21st Century. This effort out of Hungary offers useful reflections on the degree to which privacy and anonymnity are necessary to “out” the old sovereignty and achieve a new sovereignty of the whole. In Focus/data sovereignty Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy …
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The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW is the premier destination for discovery. Phi Beta Iota: Jon Lebkowsky, himself a hero of the Hacker Revolution, has done something cool here. 01 At Southby, science fiction …
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There is no info on the homepage yet but the press release is below – http://kajoo.org + the code is available at http://github.com/mjording/kajoo.org 10th March, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Source Civic Engagement Platform “Kajoo” ready to launch at SXSW 2011 is already the year of Internet-fuelled civic revolution. The immediacy and reach of the …
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OpenBeacon Press News Background information on OpenBeacon social networking features as used in our sister project SocioPatterns.org: Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks Live Social Semantics Phi Beta Iota: This is the secret sauce for connecting the digital “virtual” revolutionary circles, and the same circles on the street face to face. It …
