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FDL Book Salon Welcomes Bruce Fein, American Empire Before the Fall | Book Salon - 0 views

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    There's no doubting the conservative bona fides of Bruce Fein. A high-level Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration in the 1980s and previously a resident scholar with the Heritage Foundation, he is a long-time advocate for uncompromising right-wing political principles. Yet paradoxically, Fein has been, and remains, one of the most eloquent and incisive political voices over the last decade. He was one of the earliest and most emphatic critics of Bush and Cheney's radical abuses of executive power. Two weeks after The New York Times revealed in December, 2005, that Bush had ordered the NSA to illegally eavesdrop on Americans without the warrants required by law, Fein used his column in the right-wing Washington Times to warn that "Mr. Bush has adamantly refused to acknowledge any constitutional limitations on his power to wage war indefinitely"; to scorn as "war powers nonsense" the theories assembled "to defend Mr.
thinkahol *

t r u t h o u t | Jon Stewart | Elizabeth Warren's Greatest Hits (video) - 0 views

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    Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as compiled by MoveOn.org
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Seattle Cartoonist Behind 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' Goes Into Hiding On FBI Advice ... - 0 views

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    The Seattle cartoonist who started "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" with a satirical cartoon in support of free speech has reportedly gone into hiding on the advice of the FBI.
Johann Höchtl

Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals | Top of the Ticket | Los A... - 0 views

  • In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.
  • The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances
  • It comes down to which definition of "small donor" you accept
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  • But not as impressive as the $210 million he'd raised by then from bundlers and large donors
Johann Höchtl

EUROPA - Press Releases - Digital Agenda: Commission outlines action plan to boost Euro... - 0 views

  • A new Single Market to deliver the benefits of the digital era
  • Improve ICT standard-setting and interoperability
  • Enhance trust and security
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  • Increase Europeans' access to fast and ultra fast internet
  • Boost cutting-edge research and innovation in ICT
  • Empower all Europeans with digital skills and accessible online services
  • Unleash the potential of ICT to benefit society
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    European digital agenda
Johann Höchtl

Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003 - 0 views

  • Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to Schmidt. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.
thinkahol *

The Corporation, Corporations Destroying The Planet deprogram on USTREAM. Politics - 0 views

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    Corporations Destroying The Planet deprogram on USTREAM. Politics 
thinkahol *

Lawrence Lessig: Neo-Progressives - 0 views

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    It seems that just about every hundred years or so, the body politic we call America swells with fever as it fights off a democracy-destroying disease. That disease is "Special Interest Government".
Johann Höchtl

Google search index splits with MapReduce * The Register - 0 views

  • Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpinned the company's previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project, Google is moving on.
Johann Höchtl

"Aus dem Würgegriff der Experten befreit" - science.ORF.at - 0 views

  • Auch das Internet hat sich verändert. Durch Phänomene wie Crowdsourcing kam es zu einer Amateurisierung ganzer Berufssparten. Ich denke, dass sich die Kulturindustrie langsam aus dem Würgegriff einiger Experten befreit. Das haben wir zu einem großen Teil dem Internet zu verdanken. Ich sage es immer wieder und ich habe es auch in mein Buch geschrieben: Ich halte diese Entwicklung für äußerst positiv.
  • Kritiker des Web 2.0 behaupten, dass die Flut an neuen Medien die Kommunikation zwischen Menschen derart verändert hat, dass sie nun fragmentiert und unpersönlich geworden ist. Ich denke auch, dass sich zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen auf eine Weise verändert haben, die die besondere Vertrautheit, an die wir vor zehn oder 100 Jahren noch gewöhnt waren, bedroht
  • Sie arbeiten derzeit an einem journalistischen Projekt, bei dem Crowdsourcing benutzt wird, um Daten über das US-Gesundheitssystem zu erheben. In Österreich stecken diese Konzepte noch in den Kinderschuhen. Gibt es große Unterschiede zwischen Europa und den USA? Sind europäische Journalisten verschlossener gegenüber solchen Methoden? Ich denke, dass es Unterschiede gibt. In den USA erwägen immer mehr Medienunternehmen Crowdsourcing zu verwenden. Bei meinem Projekt geht es darum, Daten von Radiohörern zu sammeln und sich die Kosten für ihre Gesundheitsvorsorge anzusehen. Die Situation in Österreich kenne ich leider zu schlecht, um etwas darüber sagen zu können. Es gibt allerdings einige europäische Länder, die Crowdsourcing relativ früh aufgegriffen haben. Kurz nachdem mein Artikel darüber erschienen ist, gab es ein Experiment in den Niederlanden. Die Regierung hat dort versucht, die Bevölkerung durch Crowdsourcing in den Gesetzgebungsprozess einzubinden
Judith Schossboeck

Zur Appropriation socio-technischer Systeme am Beispiel Twitter - 0 views

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    Twitter-Stuff von Peter Mambrey u.a.
Johann Höchtl

SuisseID: Keine Handy-Lösung geplant - Nachrichtenportal.com - 0 views

  • Bei der für 1. Mai geplanten SuisseID-Einführung wird es vorerst keine Handy-basierte Lösung geben. Das hat Swisscom-Sprecher Olaf Schulze http://www.swisscom.com im Gespräch mit pressetext nun bestätigt. "Das Thema spielt derzeit definitiv keine Rolle. Es ist keine Lösung geplant", so Schulze. Die Swisscom galt neben den SuisseID-Anbietern SwissSign und QuoVadis als heißer Anwärter auf eine Mobiltelefon-basierte Umsetzung der SuisseID.
Johann Höchtl

Hohe Bildungsausgaben in Österreich - science.ORF.at - 0 views

  • Österreichs Bildungssystem gehört - umgelegt auf die Zahl der Schüler und Studenten - zu den teuersten in der OECD. Das geht aus der soeben veröffentlichten OECD-Studie "Bildung auf einen Blick 2010" (Education at a Glance) hervor. Kategorie: OECD-Studie Erstellt am 07.09.2010. Die Ausgaben pro Schüler bzw. Student betrugen 2007 von der Volks- bis zur Hochschule 10.974 US-Dollar (kaufkraftbereinigt) pro Jahr - ein Wert, der deutlich über dem OECD-Schnitt von 8.216 Dollar liegt. Übertroffen wird das nur von den USA (14.269 Dollar), der Schweiz (13.031) und Norwegen (11.967).
thinkahol *

The great management consultancy scam - and how it could be coming for your job : Johan... - 0 views

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    "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."
thinkahol *

The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civil... - 0 views

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    "A recent blizzard of liberal columns has framed the debate over American Islam as if it were no more than the most recent stage in the glorious history of our religious tolerance. This phrasing of the question has the (presumably intentional) effect of marginalizing doubts and of lumping any doubters with the anti-Catholic Know-Nothings, the anti-Semites, and other bigots and shellbacks. So I pause to take part in a thought experiment, and to ask myself: Am I in favor of the untrammeled "free exercise of religion"?"
thinkahol *

Muslim Americans Find Their Voice Amid The Shouts : NPR - 0 views

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    In towns across the country, the voices of those who don't want mosques built in their neighborhoods are growing louder. The open expressions of hostility have become so loud in recent months, that a coalition of Muslim groups is taking steps to remind people that American Muslims are Americans -- the same as anyone else.
Parycek

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - 1 views

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    NYTimes.com
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    extensive yet compact good stuff!
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