The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What Happens When Anonymous Gets a Bank? Dominic Basulto on May 18, 2011 bigthink The same people who brought you Wikileaks are back, and this time, they’ve created a virtual currency called Bitcoin that could destabilize the entire global financial system. Bitcoin is an open-source virtual currency generated by a computer algorithm that is completely …
The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response Posted on May 22, 2011 by Patrick Meier| I recently met up with Facebook colleagues Simon Axten and Matt Perault to discuss the role that they and their platform might play in disaster response. So I thought I’d share some thoughts that come up during the conversation seeing as …
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Technology, politics, and balance by jonl When Mitch Ratcliffe and I published Extreme Democracy in 2005, the question came up whether the discussion of politics and social technology was technoutopian. Without getting into the specifics of the book (which included diverse articles, some more positive than others about the potential role of what we now …
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From Cory Doctorow: “To understand techno-optimism, it’s useful to look at the free software movement, whose ideology and activism gave rise to the GNU/Linux operating system, the Android mobile operating system, the Firefox and Chrome browsers, the BSD Unix that lives underneath Mac OS X, the Apache web-server and many other web- and e-mail-servers and …
There is plenty of radio spectrum laying fallow everywhere for many reasons. One principal reason is regulatory capture by communications oligopolies/monopolies around the world (artificial scarcity), which leads to a lack of investment in alternative (competitive) infrastructure. This implies there is also vendor capture. What has changed just over the past five years is the …
Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement Call To Action by Peter Eckersley If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they’re getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend …
Why the Online Identity & Data Ownership Debate Matters Venessa Miemis | April 28, 2011 at 12:36 pm emergent by design There has been quite a bit of media attention the past week around the news that iPhones and iPads are recording and storing location data in an unencrypted manner. Apple replied that it’s not …
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