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Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset | Video on TED.com
Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed with classic data shows.
Now, Even the Government Has an App Store - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
On Tuesday, Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, unveiled Apps.Gov, a Web site where federal agencies will able to buy so-called cloud computing applications and services that have been approved by the government to replace more costly and
Atul Gawande: surgeon, health-policy scholar, and writer | Harvard Magazine September-October 2009
it is his habit of acknowledging uncertainty that makes his writing so refreshing. “It’s the kind of ambiguity that is uncomfortable, and that other writers want to zip out of the picture, that he gravitates toward,” says his New Yorker editor, Henry Find
The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - Anil Dash
let's take a look at some of the most compelling new sites that have launched in just the few short months since President Obama took office:
* Data.gov, providing open access to feeds of valuable facts and figures generated by the executive branch
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale - Anil Dash
Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some key elements: Great user experience and design, and an extraordinary secrecy punctuated by surp
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Real artists also expose themselves, making themselves vulnerable through honest expression so that their audience can see their humanity, and thus form a connection to something universal in all of us. Apple is still holding on to the centralized, Pravda-style public relations that artists used in 1984 when the Mac was introduced.
The Four Pillars of an Open Civic System - O'Reilly Radar
Government to Citizen, Citizen to Government, Citizen to Citizen, Government to Goverment
The White House - Blog Post - Open Government Initiative Discussion Phase: Transparency Principles
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data should be: complete, primary, timely, accessible, machine-processable, non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, and license-free;
Text - Obama’s Speech on National Security - Text - NYTimes.com
in all the areas that I've discussed today, the policies that I've proposed represent a new direction from the last eight years. To protect the American people and our values, we've banned enhanced interrogation techniques. We are closing the prison at Gu
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Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. I believe that many of these decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people. But I also believe that all too often our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight; that all too often our government trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions. Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us -- Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens -- fell silent.
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For over seven years, we have detained hundreds of people at Guantanamo. During that time, the system of military commissions that were in place at Guantanamo succeeded in convicting a grand total of three suspected terrorists. Let me repeat that: three convictions in over seven years. Instead of bringing terrorists to justice, efforts at prosecution met setback after setback, cases lingered on, and in 2006 the Supreme Court invalidated the entire system. Meanwhile, over 525 detainees were released from Guantanamo under not my administration, under the previous administration. Let me repeat that: Two-thirds of the detainees were released before I took office and ordered the closure of Guantanamo.
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Us Now on Vimeo
[This is an excellent film, a must-see. Sadly, Vimeo sucks.]
[Torrent here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4896283/Us_Now_(2009)/]
A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet
The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Finance 1.0 is built on a long-obsolete set of organizing principles. Those are out of dangerously out of sync with the hyperconnected, radically interdependent economics of the 21st century. The way that we define, allocate, and utilize money, credit, va
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Edge funds. An edge fund is the opposite of a hedge fund. Where hedge funds are opaque, edge funds are transparent. Where hedge funds are closed, edge funds are open. Where hedge funds are run for near-term gains, edge funds are in it for the long run. Where hedge funds create artificial book value, edge funds create value that accrues to real people and society. Where hedge funds focus on long and short transactions, edge funds focus on relationships. Think Marketocracy on steroids.
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Finance 2,0 will be built on microcurrencies and macrocurrencies: currencies which operate hyperlocally and transnationally. Why? Because people shouldn't have to bear collective responsibility for bankers looting or regulators cahooting.
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The significance of Obama's decision to release the torture memos - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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In the United States, what Obama did yesterday is simply not done. American Presidents do not disseminate to the world documents which narrate in vivid, elaborate detail the dirty, illegal deeds done by the CIA, especially not when the actions are very recent, were approved and ordered by the President of the United States, and the CIA is aggressively demanding that the documents remain concealed and claiming that their release will harm national security. When is the last time a President did that?
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Obama knowingly infuriated the CIA, including many of his own top intelligence advisers; purposely subjected himself to widespread attacks from the Right that he was giving Al Qaeda our "playbook"; and he released to the world documents that conclusively prove how that the U.S. Government, at the highest levels, purported to legalize torture and committed blatant war crimes. There's just no denying that those actions are praiseworthy.
Sunlight Labs: Blog - Redesigning the Government: Data.gov
see government20club.org
Op-Ed Columnist - Awake and Sing! - Frank Rich
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As a veteran of the tech gold rush recently observed to me, in Silicon Valley “the money comes later” and “the thing you make comes first, however whimsical, silly, microscopic, recondite it may be.” On Wall Street over the past decade, the money usually came first, last and in between. There was no “thing” being made at all unless you count the slicing and dicing of debt into financial “products,” the incomprehensible derivatives that helped bring down the economy, costing some five million Americans their jobs (so far) and countless more their 401(k)’s.
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In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors. The Harvard Crimson reported that in the class of 2007, 58 percent of the men and 43 percent of the women entering the work force took jobs in the finance and consulting industries. The figures were similar everywhere, from Duke to the University of Pennsylvania. Dan Rather, on his HDNet television program in December, reported that at Penn this was even true of “over half the students who graduated with engineering degrees — not a field commonly associated with Wall Street.”
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How the Web Ate the Economy and Why it’s Great for Everyone
how did management and business become generic? (See "The Financial Melt Up") Myth: corporations promote free market competition Myth: our currency was created to promote transactions between people create currencies that are earned instead of l
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