http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/geostrategy?feed=rss&pg=2 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "geostrategy" on Netvouz http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2006/07/tcpip-vs-dollar.html Donna Bogatin : � Social Web or Business Web: where is the money? Naturally, people are fascinated by this question of "where's the money?" But it's the wrong question. The more interesting one is "why the money"? And it's still gonna take us a long time to get our heads around that. But that's what we're all gonna be asking at some point. The more effective the internet and the web are at helping us communicate and co-ordinate, the less money will be involved. Because ultimately the economy is a communication network and money is its protocol The network is not the means to the end of money. emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:49:15 GMT http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/12/18/suskind_empiricism.html Even realism has an obligation to be realistic. — George Packer. [...]Which is a perfect example of what Bill Keller and others at the New York Times call an intellectual scoop. (“When you can look at all the dots everyone can look at, and be the first to connect them in a meaningful and convincing way…”) Over the last three years, and ever since the adventure in Iraq began, Americans have seen spectacular failures of intelligence, spectacular collapses in the press, spectacular breakdowns in the reality-checks built into government, including the evaporation of oversight in Congress, and the by-passing of the National Security Council, which was created to prevent exactly these events. emmineb Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:59:43 GMT http://www.reliefweb.int/RWSearch/Search?txt_DES_SearchString=france&num_DES_FormID=1&num_DES_Browser=0&num_DES_Operator=1&srchType=3 ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time. emmineb Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:22:40 GMT http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?a=f The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network. emmineb Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT http://www.lifeclever.com/2006/08/21/10-tips-for-keeping-your-desk-clean-and-tidy A messy desk is a sign of creativity and imagination. This is the excuse I gave myself for the mountain of papers, knickknacks, and San Pellegrino bottles normally piled on my desk at work. Truth is, I’m just lazy. When I started wasting more and more time looking for lost items instead of being a brilliant creative person, I knew I had to do something. I got my desk organized, and have been miraculously keeping it clean for the past three months. Here’s how: 1. Use a system to manage paper Most of the clutter on my desk is paper. In a recent post, I wrote about a system for organizing files on the computer. The same system can be modified to work with physical files: emmineb Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:37:41 GMT http://tools.google.com/gapminder/#ssn=20$majorMode=chart$ds;path=data;type=swf$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$ts;max=2005;min=1960;sp=6;ti=2004$inc_c;gid=1004;by=grp$inc_s;iid=SP.POP.TOTL;by=ind$inc_x;iid=NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD;by=ind$inc_y;iid=MS.MIL.XPND.ZS;by=ind$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=466;dataMax=64299;sma=485;smi=55$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=0;dataMax=147;sma=57;smi=387$map_s;scale=sqrt;dataMin=15000;dataMax=1296157000;sma=50;smi=5$inds=USA_tHy,,,, Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software unveils the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations. Trendalyzer’s developers have left Gapminder to join Google in Mountain View, where Google intends to improve and scale up Trendalyzer, and make it freely available to those who seek access to statistics. The Stockholm-based Gapminder Foundation will continue to spearhead the use of new technology for data animations. The goal is to promote a fact-based worldview by bringing statistical story-telling to new levels. In collaboration with producers of accurate statistics that are eager to give the public free access to databases, Gapminder hopes to recruit and inspire many users of public statistics. emmineb Tue, 13 Jun 2006 08:30:58 GMT http://www.digitallantern.net/mcluhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture. emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_06/006421.php Excellent starting point foe all things peak oil emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:01:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142383 In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=87452 emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT