Messages from the Occupy Wall Street Protest - YouTube - 0 views
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Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Joe Rogan on Occupy Wallstreet:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMcDXGkR8I Network -- Corporate Cosmology:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqEcLlp_Big THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y What CNN doesn't want you see ever again:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2aTzC_4kY Poll: Americans Distrust Governmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylEEnEp0Lbg Elizabeth Warren: Death of the Middle Classhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBf70qX1sBw Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcqb9hHQ3E GREEN WAR:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ864ucbR_4 Network - Mad as hellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew In the House, In a Heartbeat - John Murphy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEACategory:News & Politics
KBR: Kickbacks, Bribes, Ripoffs & War Racketeering - 0 views
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Why KBR continues to be awarded huge open-ended, cost-plus, no-compete contracts from the Pentagon is a question worthy of a criminal investigation, because their track record as a military contractor suggests that "KBR" is actually short for "Kickbacks, Bribes & Ripoffs". According to the POGO Federal Contractor Misconduct Database, since 1995 the company has been involved in not less than 23 documented cases of misconduct including but not limited to Overcharging the Government, Violation of Anti-Kickback Act, Excessive Subcontract Costs, Fraud and Accepting Kickbacks, Exposing Troops to Hazardous Water Conditions, Bribery to Win International Government Contracts, Overpricing Fuel, Breach of Contract, Hurricane Relief Contract Overcharges, Sexual Assault, Freight Forwarding Kickbacks, Procurement Irregularities, and Conspiracy to Defraud the Government. For this KBR has paid millions in fines, which it surely considers a small price to pay for the billions it continues to receive in new federal contracts every year:
Der Journalismus wird sich verändern! Auch im Radio. Ein Interview. | Diskurs... - 0 views
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Um seiner Aufklärungsarbeit im digitalen Zeitalter nachkommen zu können, müssen die Redaktionen lernen, mit Rohdaten umzugehen und Werkzeuge entwickeln, die aus den Datenbergen relevante Geschichten destillieren
Problems and Opportunities in Government Data - Input Output - 1 views
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Problems
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n Government Data
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data loss privatization mis-publication greater respect for privacy and other citizen concerns, and excessive secrecy
KoopTech » Innovation » CDU-Politiker für Open Data - 0 views
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CDU-Politiker Michael Kretschmer versucht aus der starren Abwehrhaltung der Union in der Internetpolitik auszubrechen
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Die Politik müsste weniger Regulierung und mehr Freiräume für Innovation schaffen – sowie flexible Förderinstrumente für kleine und kleinste Software-Unternehmen und zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen im Bereich IT.
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Wenn Kretschmer es schaffen könnte, die Union für ein data.gov.de zu bewegen, wäre aber auch schon viel gewonnen.
Government 2.0 and the Social Media Bubble - 2 views
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Entscheidungen werden von mehr Leuten mitgetragen ... müssen dadurch aber nicht besser werden. Ich sehe die Gefahr des großen "Blufs" ... Zahlt es sich aus, die MAssen begeistern zu wollen (die anscheinend ja nicht von selbst kommen), ist eine kleine elitäre Gruppe hochgradig involvierter nicht besser? Surowiecky sagt, dass kogintionsprobleme (wie viele Drops sind im dem Glas, wie schwer ist die Kuh?) sehr gut von der Masse gelöst werden, über beteiligung im Government meint er: "making policy in a democracy is not a cognition problem; it is a cooperation and coordination problem with fuzzier and less definitive answers" und ist der Meinung Wisdow of the crowd wäre hier nicht direkt anwendbar.
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siehe auch die unterschiede in den verschiedenen prozessen: information pooling vs. discussions http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23822/1.html
The History of Transparency - 3 views
Willkommen im Schwarm! - 0 views
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Mit dem Schwarmverhalten von Bienen, Ameisen, Fischen und Vögeln hat die Sache allerdings nicht immer viel zu tun. Und auch, dass Menschen, über große Entfernungen hinweg, selbstorganisiert und ohne zentrale Lenkung miteinander kooperieren, ist kein ganz neues Phänomen. Der Mechanismus der Preisbildung auf Märkten, wie ihn Adam Smith mit seiner Theorie der "Unsichtbaren Hand" beschrieb, ist das Paradebeispiel für eine solche Form kollektiver Intelligenz.
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Smart Crowd: Der Durchschnitt macht's
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Geschichte der Soziologin Kate Gordon. Sie führt, noch in den zwanziger Jahren, ein einfaches Experiment durch. Gordon bittet ihre Studenten, eine Handvoll Gegenstände nach dem geschätzten Gewicht in einer Reihe anzuordnen. Zweihundert Kandidaten lässt sie diesen Test absolvieren. Am Ende zählt sie zusammen, ermittelt den Durchschnitt der Schätzwerte. Und da ist es passiert. Zusammengenommen hat die Gruppe der zweihundert Studenten eine Trefferquote von 94 Prozent.
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Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? - 0 views
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First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband
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Second to personalise –
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Third to economise – in the Pre-Budget Report we set out our determination to find £11 billion of savings by driving up operational efficiency,
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Die Open-Data-Feuerwehr « Kollegen, Feuerwehr, Leeuwen, Bart, Bildschirm, Inf... - 1 views
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Nutzen von Open Data für Rettungskräfte und das Informationssystem “RESC.info
Wir brauchen einen neuen Aufbruch - 0 views
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of "Terrorism" - Glenn Greenwald - Salo... - 0 views
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That Terrorism means nothing more than violence committed by Muslims whom the West dislikes has been proven repeatedly. When an airplane was flown into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, it was immediately proclaimed to be Terrorism, until it was revealed that the attacker was a white, non-Muslim, American anti-tax advocate with a series of domestic political grievances. The U.S. and its allies can, by definition, never commit Terrorism even when it is beyond question that the purpose of their violence is to terrorize civilian populations into submission. Conversely, Muslims who attack purely military targets -- even if the target is an invading army in their own countries -- are, by definition, Terrorists. That is why, as NYU's Remi Brulin has extensively documented, Terrorism is the most meaningless, and therefore the most manipulated, word in the English language. Yesterday provided yet another sterling example.
Climate of Fear: Jim Risen v. the Obama administration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views
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[Barring unforeseen events, I'm going to leave this post at the top of the page for today and tomorrow, as I think the events it examines, rather in detail and at length, are vitally important and merit much more attention than they've received] The Obama DOJ's effort to force New York Times investigative journalist Jim Risen to testify in a whistleblower prosecution and reveal his source is really remarkable and revealing in several ways; it should be receiving much more attention than it is. On its own, the whistleblower prosecution and accompanying targeting of Risen are pernicious, but more importantly, it underscores the menacing attempt by the Obama administration -- as Risen yesterday pointed out -- to threaten and intimidate whistleblowers, journalists and activists who meaningfully challenge what the government does in secret. The subpoena to Risen was originally issued but then abandoned by the Bush administration, and then revitalized by Obama lawyers. It is part of the prosecution of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent whom the DOJ accuses of leaking to Risen the story of a severely botched agency plot -- from 11 years ago -- to infiltrate Iran's nuclear program, a story Risen wrote about six years after the fact in his 2006 best-selling book, State of War. The DOJ wants to force Risen to testify under oath about whether Sterling was his source.
Data without borders: why I want to change the world | Jake Porway | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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It should come as no surprise to readers of Datablog that, as editor Simon Rogers puts it himself, "we are drowning in data." We suddenly find ourselves with unprecedented access to torrents of data that could be used to better society.
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To help bridge the gap between socially minded organizations and do-good dataists, we started a project temporarily dubbed "Data Without Borders".
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