The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Review Brings Peer Review to the Scientific Masses This seems like a step in the right direction for the world of academic publishing. ResearchGate News announces, “Peer Review Isn’t Working—Introducing Open Review.” We know that increasingly, papers based on shoddy research have been making it into journals supposedly policed by rigorous peer-review policies. Now, …
New York Public Library Posts Maps The New York Public Library has a massive collection of beautiful maps, but instead of keeping them locked in an archive Motherboard reports, “The New York Public Library Releases 20,000 Beautiful High Resolution Maps.” All of the 20,000 maps are available via open access. What is even more amazing …
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Government Tackles Acquisition Inefficiencies Given evidence like the vile backlog on veterans’ benefits and the still-operating paperwork bunker in Pennsylvania, one could be forgiven for suspecting that no one in government is even trying to bring our bureaucracy into this century. You may be surprised to know there is plan in place for at least …
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OpenCalais Has Big Profile Users OpenCalais is an open source project that creates rich semantic data by using natural language processing and other analytical methods through a Web service interface. It is a simple explanation for a piece of powerful software. OpenCalais was originally part of ClearForest, but Thomson Reuters acquired the project in 2007. …
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Free eBooks At Open Culture There are legal ways to download books on the Internet without having to resort to Pirate Bay or other P2P networks. If you visit Open Culture, you will discover that there are over “550 Free eBooks: Download Books For Free.” Before you get on your soapbox and explain that most …
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Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search We learned on March 26, 2014 suggesting that the German search vendor Intrafind has been looking for the next big thing. The company may have found it, and we expect that this low profile vendor will be plugging into the Elasticsearch power cable. Wikipedia already …
Phi Beta Iota has learned that the publisher of The Google Trilogy has gone out of business and their website is no longer offering The Google Trilogy, one of the most important — and still one of the most relevant — intellectual exploration into Google, the 900 lb gorilla in Internet Stage 1 (Connecting People …
