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Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - 0 views

www.rollingstone.com/...n-still-doesnt-get-it-20111021 Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It | Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone
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  • thinkahol * on 23 Oct 11
     
    I'll have more coming out about this in a few days, but there have been two disgusting developments in the realm of plutocratic intervention on behalf of Wall Street that everyone protesting should take note of. The fact that both of the following things took place in the middle of the full fever of OWS, when everyone is supposedly trying to placate anti-banker sentiment and Obama and the DCCC are supposedly pledging support of the protesters, shows how completely bankrupt this system is and how necessary street-level protests have become. Popular uprising is probably the only move left to stop developments like the following:
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KBR: Kickbacks, Bribes, Ripoffs & War Racketeering - 0 views

paper.li/1310338183 KBR: Kickbacks Bribes Ripoffs & War Racketeering
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  • thinkahol * on 29 Oct 11
     
    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:
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Letter from Cairo - Infoshop News - 0 views

news.infoshop.org/article.php Letter from Cairo - Infoshop News
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  • thinkahol * on 27 Oct 11
     
    To all those in the United States currently occupying parks, squares and other spaces, your comrades in Cairo are watching you in solidarity. Having received so much advice from you about transitioning to democracy, we thought it's our turn to pass on some advice.
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Citizen Scientist 2.0 - 0 views

ieet.org/...kuszewski20111020 Citizen Scientist 2.0
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  • thinkahol * on 30 Oct 11
     
    What does the future of science look like? About a year ago, I was asked this question. My response then was: Transdisciplinary collaboration. Researchers from a variety of domains-biology, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, law-all coming together, using inputs from each specialized area to generate the best comprehensive solutions to society's more persistent problems. indeed, it appears as if I was on the right track, as more and more academic research departments, as well as industries, are seeing the value in this type of partnership. Now let's take this a step further. Not only do I think we will be relying on inputs from researchers and experts from multiple domains to solve scientific problems, but I see society itself getting involved on a much more significant level as well. And I don't just mean science awareness. I'm talking about actually participating in the research itself. Essentially, I see a huge boom in the future for Citizen Science.
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Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere-and They're Not Going Away | The ... - 0 views

www.thenation.com/...here-and-theyre-not-going-away Where Are Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere-and They're Not Going Away | The Nation
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  • thinkahol * on 29 Oct 11
     
    Marissa Holmes, a "structure" working group member who is one of the proponents of the "spokes council" proposal, writes in an email that she believes this new process, if adopted, would bolster the position of women and minorities in the movement by specifically permitting caucuses of traditionally marginalized groups as well as campers who are not in working groups to send representatives (or "spokes") to the council.
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Der EuGH, Google und das Vergessen: Was sagt das Urteil wirklich? - 0 views

internationallawandtheinternet.blogspot.co.at/...gle-und-das-vergessen-was.html international law internet google governance
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  • benfalls inexakt ist Mathias Müller von Blumencron, wenn er  ebenfalls in der FAZ schreibt, dass es nun „doch ein Recht auf Vergessen werden im internet“ gibt. Nein: das gibt es nicht.
  • Dieses Recht des Einzelnen ist  abzuwägen gegenüber den wirtschaftlichen interesse des Suchmaschinenbetreibers und „dem interesse der breiten Öffentlichkeit daran, die information bei einer anhand des Namens der betroffenen Person durchgeführten Suche zu finden“
  • utocomplete-Urteil des BGH keine Klagswelle gegen Google gegeben habe, wie die FAZ einen Anwalt zitiert.
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  • atlicher Regulierung rief, begann eine doch bemerkenswerte Diskussion um die Rolle von Google in der informationsgesellschaft. Überschriften wie „Angst vor Google“, „ Google ou  la route de la servitude“, „Warum wir Google fürchten” , „Die Google-Gefahr“, „Dark Google“ schafften ein Klima, in dem nur schwer sachlich argumentiert werden konnte.
  • Google neo-absolutistische Machtfülle vor und schrieb „[o]ur demands for self-determination are not easily extinguished.  We made Google, perhaps by loving it too much.”
  • chtung der Privatsphäre wies der EuGH Google an, erforderlichen Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, um bestimmte personenbezogene Daten aus dem Index der SuchmaschIne zu entfernen und den „Zugang zu diesen Daten In Zukunft zu verhIndern“
  • keine Daten verarbeiteten, da sie nicht zwischen personenbezogenen Daten und anderen informationen unterschieden
  • und deshalb hätten Suchmaschinenbetreiber in ihrem „Verantwortungsbereich im Rahmen [ihrer] Befugnisse und Möglichkeiten“  dafür zu sorgen, dass grundrechtliche Garantien ihre volle Wirksamkeit entfalten können (Abs. 38).
  • Es reiche aus, wenn der Suchmaschinenbetreiber aus wirtschaftlichen Erwägungen eine Zweigniederlassung oder Tochtergesellschaft gegründet habe, „ deren Tätigkeit auf die Einwohner dieses Staates ausgerichtet“ sei
  • Suchmaschinenbetreiber dazu verpflichtet werden können, Links zu Webseiten Dritter mit informationen zu einer bestimmten Person zu entfernen, auch wenn Name und informationen auf dieser Webseite nicht vorher oder gleichzeitig gelöscht würden
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Open Government Data: Rückenwind durch Apps - 0 views

www.computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp opengov opendata psi eu
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  • Als Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors gelten alle Arten von Daten, die von öffentlichen EInrichtungen generiert werden, wie beispielsweise Karten und Informationen zum Wetter, zum Recht, zur Verkehrslage sowie zu FInanzen und zur Wirtschaft. Diese sollen offen gelegt werden, wie es die Unterstützer von "Open Government Data"-Initiativen rund um den Erdball (Hier fInden Sie eInige Videos zu dem Thema) bereits länger fordern. Diese Daten könnten dann beispielsweise für Smartphone-Apps wiederverwendet werden, so die EU-Kommission In eIner Aussendung. ScheInbar könnte der App-Boom dem Konzept Open Government Data Auftrieb verleihen.Mit der kostenlosen oder gebührenpflichtigen Wiederverwendung öffentlicher Daten wird eIner Studie von 2006 zufolge eIn Umsatz von schätzungsweise mIndestens 27 Mrd. Euro pro Jahr In der EU erzielt. Beiträge, die zu dieser Konsultation bei der EU-Kommission eIngehen, fließen In die Überprüfung der PSI-RichtlInie mit eIn und sInd Teil der Digitalen Agenda für Europa, die eInen Beitrag zu den Zielen der EU – höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, mehr Innovation und Arbeitsplätze – leisten soll. Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 30. November 2010.
  • rden Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors besser und stärker genutzt, eröffnet sich eIn enormes Potenzial für neue Geschäftsmodelle und Arbeitsplätze, und die Verbraucher haben eIne größere Auswahl und bekommen mehr für ihr Geld. Der Markt für mobile Apps, die sich zum Teil auf PSI-generierte Daten stützen, könnte bis 2013 auf 15 Mrd. Euro anwachsen.
  • Die Überarbeitung der zugrunde liegenden PSI-Richtlnie ist der Kommission zufolge "eine der wichtigsten Maßnahmen der Digitalen Agenda für Europa. Regierungen könnten beispielsweise die Märkte für inhalte fördern, indem sie informationen des öffentlichen Sektors unter "transparenten, effektiven und nichtdiskriminierenden Bedingungen" bereitstellen.
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  • Auch verweist sie auf praktische Probleme, wie das fehlende Bewusstsein dafür, welche informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorhanden sind und welches wirtschaftliche Potenzial in den Daten der öffentlichen Stellen steckt.
  • Die Kommission kam zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Richtlinie von 2003 in ihrer jetzigen Form ihre Wirkung noch nicht voll entfaltet hat, und hat beschlossen, spätestens 2012 eine weitere Überprüfung vorzunehmen, wenn mehr Daten über die Auswirkungen, Folgen und Anwendung der EU-Regeln für informationen des öffentlichen Sektors vorliege
  • Parycek on 20 Oct 10
     
    Die Europäische Kommission führt derzeit eine Konsultation zur Wiederverwendung von informationen des öffentlichen Sektors durch.
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Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views

www.deliberations.com.au/...-is-not-empowering-enough.html deliberation Crowd-sourcing edem
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      Parycek on 20 Mar 10
       
      It invites individuals to foist and endorse (or not) ideas with no pressure to consider the full public consequences of them, including whether they can be sustained across ideological or partisan lines, or how practical they are, or how insulting of public officers. There is the published intention to attract a full range of public perspectives, but instead it tends to attract enclaves of people with committed strategies (eg. embarrass public officials) or perspectives (eg. technology is the answer). While national initiatives attract noise, in more local applications of such ideation, participation is often too thin to be meaningful. This all comes down the question of representativeness. If a governing body is going to legitimately use these ideas, and be compelled to do so, then there has to be good evidence that the contributors do actually form a descriptive representation of the public being governed. I think if you have a technical problem that requires particular expertise, then such ideation processes can find the needle in the haystack. Those of us who subscribe to technical forums know how well that works. I think some people feel that public policy ideation works the same way, but it doesn't because in a contested political environment, what "should be done" is claimed on normative rather than technical grounds. Another metaphor for the ranking in ideation is consumer selection, which many in political science would model as rational choice, privileging private over public interests. Should that be the motor for the selection of public policy? I write all this knowing full well that I risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I just think we can do better. Some ideation processes should invite people randomly, to ensure full demographic spread on relevant dimensions (eg. age, education, political leaning). Let's have multi-stage processes, where contributors do more than just introduce and rank ideas--to their credit, thi
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    I fear that ultimately crowd-sourcing is damaging the enterprise of dialogue and deliberation (D&D).
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The Impact of the Internet on Institutions In the Future - 0 views

pewinternet.org/...Overview.aspx opengov socialmedia study change gov20
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  • While their overall assessment anticipates that humans’ use of the internet will prompt institutional change, many elaborated with written explanations that expressed significant concerns over organization’s resistance to change. They cited fears that bureaucracies of all stripes – especially government agencies – can resist outside encouragement to evolve. Some wrote that the level of change will affect different kinds of institutions at different times. The consensus among them was that businesses will transform themselves much more quickly than public and non-profit agencies.
  • Many selected the “change” option, but said they were not sure drastic change will occur in organizations by the 2020 time frame. They said the most significant impact of the internet on institutions will occur after that. Some noted this change will cause tension and disruption.
  • Parycek on 03 Apr 10
     
    Most surveyed believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.
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Organized religion 'will be driven toward extinction' in 9 countries, experts predict -... - 0 views

religion.blogs.cnn.com/...comment-page-29 Organized religion 'will be driven toward extinction' in 9 countries experts predict - CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
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  • thinkahol * on 23 Mar 11
     
    Organized religion will all but vanish eventually from nine Western-style democracies, a team of mathematicians predict in a new paper based on census data stretching back 100 years.
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US war laws explained, why Afghanistan and Iraq wars are unlawful, how to end them - Lo... - 0 views

www.examiner.com/...s-are-unlawful-how-to-end-them US war laws explained why Afghanistan and Iraq wars are unlawful how to end them - Los Angeles LA County Nonpartisan | Examiner.com
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  • thinkahol * on 12 Jul 11
     
    The laws of war are essential for citizens and legislators to master if humanity is to evolve beyond our violent history of war to enjoy civil communities. To bring these basic laws to life, we'll touch on war's history, explain the letter of US war laws, explain the philosophy/spirit of US war laws, and make the obvious conclusion once the laws are clearly understood that current US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are unlawful orders that our military must refuse and stop as demanded in their oath to the protect and defend the US Constitution.
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Working the Crowd: Employment and Labor Law in the Crowdsourcing industry by Alek Felst... - 0 views

papers.ssrn.com/...papers.cfm crowdsourcing law crowd study paper
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  • Parycek on 10 Jul 11
     
    Abstract:      This Article confronts the thorny questions that arise in attempting to apply traditional employment and labor law to "crowdsourcing," an emerging online labor model unlike any that has existed to this point. Crowdsourcing refers to the process of taking tasks that would normally be delegated to an employee and distributing them to a large pool of online workers, the "crowd," in the form of an open call. 
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n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police - 0 views

nplusonemag.com/rning-the-violent-peace-police n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
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  • thinkahol * on 10 Feb 12
     
    In response to "The Cancer In Occupy," by Chris Hedges.
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Messages from the Occupy Wall Street Protest - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch Messages from the Occupy Wall Street Protest - YouTube
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  • thinkahol * on 07 Nov 11
     
    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
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Manage Real Improvement in Online Projects - input Output - 0 views

h30565.www3.hp.com/...1550 improvement open data reasons against nasa
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  • Substantial businesses have long "re-purposed" what's available from court proceedings, census publications, CIA atlases, and agency scientific and commercial compilations. It seems plausible that release of, say, crime statistics in Cook County, or water flows of the Colorado River, will be valuable to someone. Which datasets are worth processing first, though?
  • Specialists widely believe what European Commission VP Neelie Kroes and others have said: "Your data is worth more if you give it away." As with many other IT issues, though the people in the best position to make such measurements are too busy creating the future to invest time rigorously justifying it.
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Live map of London Underground trains - 1 views

traintimes.org.uk/tube open API underground london
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  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Jun 10
     
    Karte, die die Bewegung der U-Bahnen in London in Echtzeit zeigt.
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Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1 - 0 views

www.masternewmedia.org/...-1-Michel-Bauwens-20071020.htm collaboration production governance
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  • Such free cooperation can only be hindered ‘artificially’, through either legal means ( intellectual property regimes) or through technical restrictions such as  Digital Rights Management, which essentially hinder the social innovation that can take place.
  • The expansion of peer production is dependent on cultural/legal conditions. It requires;open and free raw cultural material to use; participative structures to process it; and commons-based property forms to protect the results from private appropriation.
  • In most cases, distribution beats decentralization and centralization as the best way to deal with  complexity.
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  • The sphere of commons-oriented peer production, based on stronger links between cooperators, think Linux or Wikipedia, usually combines a self-governing community, with for-benefit institutions (Apache Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, etc…), which manage the infrastructure of collaboration, and a  ecology of businesses which create scarcities around the commons, and in return support the commons from which they derive their value.
  • Finally,  crowdsourcing occurs when it is the institutions themselves which attempt to create a framework, where participation can be integrated in their value chain, and this can take a wide variety of forms. This is generally the field of co-creation.
  • We must note that monetary value that is being realized by the capital players, is – in many if not most of the cases, not of the same order as the value created by the social innovation processes.
  • peer governance requires a priori consensus on the common object. But society as a whole lacks such consensus by definition: it is a decentralized collection of competing interests and worldviews, rather than a distributed network of  free agents. Therefore, for society at large, there is no alternative to a revitalized democratic political scenario based on representation.
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Open Government & Open Data im Landeswahlprogramm der NRW SPD | Open Data Network - 0 views

opendata-network.org/...landeswahlprogramm-der-nrw-spd open data government Wahlkampf SPD Deutschland
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  • Johann Höchtl on 21 Jun 10
     
    "Wenn Sozialdemokraten in NRW wieder regieren, werden wir eine offene partizipative und transparente Landesregierung und -verwaltung sein. Durch die kostenfreie Bereitstellung öffentlicher Daten und informationen in maschinenlesbaren offenen Formaten wollen wir das Zusammenwirken des Landes mit seinen Bürgern im Rahmen einer Open Government-initiative auf eine neue Stufe heben."
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YouTube - A Look at an American Propaganda Program. - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch american propaganda program DoD defense
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  • thinkahol * on 16 Aug 10
     
    April 22, 2008 Democracy Now! Pentagon's Pundits: A Look at the Defense Department's Propaganda Program The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than seventy-five retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. (excerpt)
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The great management consultancy scam - and how it could be coming for your job : Johan... - 0 views

johannhari.com/...t-could-be-coming-for-your-job management consultant
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  • thinkahol * on 07 Sep 10
     
    "In the long fake boom of the NIneties and Noughties, we were sold a thousand scams. End government regulation of the fInancial system! Turn banks Into casInos! Pay CEOs 500 times more than their staff! Bow, bow, bow before our mansion-dwellIng overlords and the Total Efficiency they will brIng! Yet from under the rubble left by these delusions, one of the greatest scams has skipped out unscathed, and it is now successfully sellIng itself as a solution to the fadIng of the boom-light. It is probably In your workplace now, or comIng soon. Its name? Management consultancy."
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