Right now, House Bill 4810 is in the House Steering and Policy committee. House representative and ask him or her to speak with Steering and Policy committee chair Rep. Kafka and House Chairman DeLeo to encourage them to move the bill through the committee and onto the floor. MORE
Kennedy, who had chaired the senate committee on education, had become very supportive of the Pisa project. ''It Facing test results showing the United States falling behind other countries in education, the U.S. did what a declining superpower tries to do - - it tried to kill the test. MORE
reports : A vocal opponent of SOPA and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa started KeepTheWebOpen.com , a website that allows anyone to contribute to the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, known as OPEN. Though ultimate authorship will fall to Issa, user markups and comments are expected to make their way to the draft presented to the congressional committee. MORE
The Hidden Persuaders project has interviewed neuropsychologist Tim Shallice about his opposition to the British government’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the Northern Ireland conflict of the 1970s – a practice eventually abandoned as torture. MORE
The Hidden Persuaders project has interviewed neuropsychologist Tim Shallice about his opposition to the British government’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the Northern Ireland conflict of the 1970s – a practice eventually abandoned as torture. MORE
Senate, and twice headed the Democratic National Committee. More than a century ago, my great great grandfather, Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, bought a large ranch for hunting quail smack dab in the heart of Texas. MORE
If you’re at all local you should go, and I don’t just say that because I’ve been on the technology advisory committee from the start. The always-excellent Boston Book Festival is this Saturday in Copley Square in Boston. MORE
Hearst Corporation, Illinois Press Association, Online News Association, Public Citizen, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Tribune Company, in asking an Illinois appellate court to protect the rights of anonymous speakers online by imposing procedural safeguards before requiring that their identities be disclosed. MORE
Christopher Beam at Slate has a lively article about the Republican National Committee’s meeting to come up with new ways of using the new media to build the party back up. The article gives the sense of a group that simultaneously is Getting It and Floundering in It MORE
T he House transportation committee wants Congress to spend $50 billion on high speed trains, up considerably from the $8 billion now allocated. Big news on high speed trains this month! MORE
Four years ago, the United Way of Central Ohio created a staff committee that focuses on balanced well-being, which also includes healthy eating. She works closely with HR to manage the committee’s work which now consists of 12 staff members who volunteer their time. MORE
“Psychiatric diagnoses are not valid because they are decided by a committee” I’m sorry to break it to you, but all medical diagnoses are decided by committee. These committees shift the boundaries, revise, reject and resurrect diagnoses across medicine. MORE
Yahoo Hires Advisers, Forms Committee to Explore Options | Digital – AdAge. This continues my pre-Spring housecleaning of remembered tabs. #1 1 is here. The spork, the pressure cooker, and the back burner … | deadpenguinsociety. VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 1) — diginomica. VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 2) — diginomica. The mainframe lives on in IBM’s LinuxONE | ZDNet. My Explorations of Blockchain Technology, One Year In | Phil Gomes | LinkedIn. MORE
The House Judiciary Committee has posted a page with ten gifs to explain to the nation’s youth the folly of President Obama’s immigration actions. Hat tip to Peter Kaminski MORE
According to Wikipdia, the FNC was “was chartered by the US National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to act as a forum for networking collaborations among US federal agencies…” It was dissolved in 1997. MORE
The search committee is pretty fabulous, so I have confidence that this is going to be an amazing hire. The Digital Public Library of America is looking for an executive director. This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference. I think it’d be fantastic if this person were to come out of the large, community-based Web collaboration space, but there are many other ways for the DPLA to go right. MORE
No big deal yet, but at least Senator Tammy Baldwin, who serves on the Education Committee, has access to the research on the gender bias against boys, the resulting economic and social catastrophe, and what to do about implementing Title IX with respect to both females and males. MORE
Two weeks ago I gave the closing keynote at the Boards of Directors and Supervisory Committees Conference of the U.S. National Association of Federal Credit Unions in the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui, on the topic of Profiting From Technology Trends. The credit union sector in the U.S outperformed commercial banks after the financial crisis according to the very interesting ILO study Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives , moving from 42.8% to 45.0% MORE
A Republican Study Committee has posted a document (as a pdf ) that nails three myths about copyright law and suggests four areas of reform. The 3 myths are: The purpose of copyright is to compensate the creator of the content. Copyright is free market capitalism at work. MORE
Does replacing that mad scientist with a committee make things better or worse? Dave Snowden and I have had many exchanges over the years about the need to balance individual responsibility with collective change. How does any group change happen without individuals behaving differently? How much structure is optimal? When does a focus on individual change tip into what he calls New Age Fluffy Bunnydom? When does tweaking the system towards predetermined outcomes tip into playing god? MORE
Emergence Alan Levine writes, "I am looking for a metaphor or a real example of something maybe complex or just larger/valuable that does not arise solely from adding up many small components. The meaning of a sentence does not arise solely from the meanings of the words that make it up. MORE
So far, critics have managed to raise little more than smoke signals but the tinderbox may well have just been ignited by an article of scorching criticism penned by the head of the last DSM committee. The article was posted online by psychiatrist Doug Brenner who also described being kicked off the authors list for an academic paper and denounced to members of a DSM sub-committee for criticising conflicts of interest in the committee in an earlier blog post. MORE
The Committee for Economic Development for Australia (CEDA) today launched a landmark publication Australia’s Future Workforce? MORE
From time to time in knowledge management circles the cry of standardisation is raised. It's just happened again with a new KM Linked In Group with the banner.accreditation association delegated to make decisions by the global KM community. A brief investigation indicates its a variant on three men and a dog, or in this case two men seeking jobs, a woman and a cat. When challenged on the pretentiousness of the title they say its just aspirational. MORE
Six of the 11 panelists reported financial ties during the time that the committee met, and two more reported financial ties in the five years leading up to the committee assignment, according to APA records. MORE
thanks to the initiative of the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, a dedicated Committee of experts and members of the Parliament from the Committee on Internet Rights and Duties. An ad hoc study commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies has published a draft “Declaration of Internet Rights” that should be cause for cheers and cheer. It’s currently open for public comment at the Civici Platform — which by itself is pretty cool. MORE
In little River Falls, pop 12,500, the Democratic National Committee is sending in top organizers for the last week. The last week of the campagins, and outside entities are coming in, along with millions of dollars. MORE
A huge thanks to the steering committee for their work and assistance over the last few months in pulling together the theme/focus of the conference. TEKRI is organizing/sponsoring a conference on what I think is the next significant trend in learning (corporate and higher education): Learning Analytics. The call for papers was announced yesterday. MORE
The FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee’s 2013 Annual Report has been posted. I’m happy to see the Committee address the difficult issue of specialized services, and to do so with the clear intent of (a) not letting access to the open Internet be sacrificed, and(b) not allowing special services to be an end run around an open Internet. The OIAC is a civilian group, headed by Jonathan Zittrain [twitter: zittrain ]. MORE
Last week the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus , one of the most prominent evangelists for micro-credit in developing economies, and to the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the lending institution that Yunus founded. MORE
Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era. MORE
Four years ago the Olympic Committee's attempt to ban social media at The London Olympics seemed laughable. The collapse of that ban, and the resulting enthusiasm and fun that social media enabled, subsequently played a large part in those games' success. And yet four years on here they are making silly pronouncements about what people can and can't share from the Rio games. It's like they are in denial. They really don't appear to know what to do with the loss of control. MORE
Recently, the House Science Committee held a hearing on American leadership in quantum computing. Earlier this year, Scientific American , in collaboration with the World Economic Forum , published a special report on The Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2017. MORE
There are 25 Senators on the committee that confirms FCC commissioners. So, Britt Blaser had the idea that we all together could come up with the 25 questions we want asked, and then provide one question per Senator, with backing material, etc. There’s a “starter kit&# of 13 questions up on a survey , with space for you to add your own. There’s also a “Fast Internet for All&# Facebook app that can connect Senators to questions. MORE
National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology and as Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries. I need your help and recommendations! MORE
While my great grandfather’s company testified against the 40 hour work week before a Congressional committee, many Milwaukeeans identified themselves as “sewer socialists” and went so far as to support city parks and improved education. MORE
One interested related experience was when a student rep on the Philosophy Department Committee. The picture here is of Michael Bryant as Mathieu Delarue in the BBC production of Sartre’s The Roads to Freedom. MORE
The drafting committee of the Declaration presenting its work to Congress " In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TED Videos - Watch em all!! MORE
Kennedy, who had chaired the senate committee on education, had become very supportive of the Pisa project. ''It Facing test results showing the United States falling behind other countries in education, the U.S. did what a declining superpower tries to do - - it tried to kill the test. MORE
Committee Related Topics Nine Shift
JULY 14, 2009
T he House transportation committee wants Congress to spend $50 billion on high speed trains, up considerably from the $8 billion now allocated. Big news on high speed trains this month!
Dave Snowden
JULY 7, 2012
From time to time in knowledge management circles the cry of standardisation is raised. It's just happened again with a new KM Linked In Group with the banner.accreditation association delegated to make decisions by the global KM community. A brief investigation indicates its a variant on three men and a dog, or in this case two men seeking jobs, a woman and a cat. When challenged on the pretentiousness of the title they say its just aspirational.
David Weinberger
JANUARY 17, 2012
Mind Hacks
JUNE 26, 2009
So far, critics have managed to raise little more than smoke signals but the tinderbox may well have just been ignited by an article of scorching criticism penned by the head of the last DSM committee. The article was posted online by psychiatrist Doug Brenner who also described being kicked off the authors list for an academic paper and denounced to members of a DSM sub-committee for criticising conflicts of interest in the committee in an earlier blog post.
John Hagel
OCTOBER 16, 2006
Last week the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus , one of the most prominent evangelists for micro-credit in developing economies, and to the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the lending institution that Yunus founded.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 4, 2007
The drafting committee of the Declaration presenting its work to Congress " In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TED Videos - Watch em all!!
David Weinberger
JULY 8, 2010
Right now, House Bill 4810 is in the House Steering and Policy committee. House representative and ask him or her to speak with Steering and Policy committee chair Rep. Kafka and House Chairman DeLeo to encourage them to move the bill through the committee and onto the floor.
Nine Shift
JUNE 7, 2017
No big deal yet, but at least Senator Tammy Baldwin, who serves on the Education Committee, has access to the research on the gender bias against boys, the resulting economic and social catastrophe, and what to do about implementing Title IX with respect to both females and males.
Beth Kanter
AUGUST 23, 2017
Four years ago, the United Way of Central Ohio created a staff committee that focuses on balanced well-being, which also includes healthy eating. She works closely with HR to manage the committee’s work which now consists of 12 staff members who volunteer their time.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 17, 2012
A Republican Study Committee has posted a document (as a pdf ) that nails three myths about copyright law and suggests four areas of reform. The 3 myths are: The purpose of copyright is to compensate the creator of the content. Copyright is free market capitalism at work.
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
Christopher Beam at Slate has a lively article about the Republican National Committee’s meeting to come up with new ways of using the new media to build the party back up. The article gives the sense of a group that simultaneously is Getting It and Floundering in It
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
Kennedy, who had chaired the senate committee on education, had become very supportive of the Pisa project. ''It Facing test results showing the United States falling behind other countries in education, the U.S. did what a declining superpower tries to do - - it tried to kill the test.
Nine Shift
JANUARY 21, 2014
Kennedy, who had chaired the senate committee on education, had become very supportive of the Pisa project. ''It Facing test results showing the United States falling behind other countries in education, the U.S. did what a declining superpower tries to do - - it tried to kill the test.
Ross Dawson
AUGUST 21, 2013
Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era.
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 30, 2017
One interested related experience was when a student rep on the Philosophy Department Committee. The picture here is of Michael Bryant as Mathieu Delarue in the BBC production of Sartre’s The Roads to Freedom.
Nine Shift
MARCH 31, 2016
While my great grandfather’s company testified against the 40 hour work week before a Congressional committee, many Milwaukeeans identified themselves as “sewer socialists” and went so far as to support city parks and improved education.
George Siemens
AUGUST 17, 2010
A huge thanks to the steering committee for their work and assistance over the last few months in pulling together the theme/focus of the conference. TEKRI is organizing/sponsoring a conference on what I think is the next significant trend in learning (corporate and higher education): Learning Analytics. The call for papers was announced yesterday.
Mind Hacks
DECEMBER 30, 2012
Six of the 11 panelists reported financial ties during the time that the committee met, and two more reported financial ties in the five years leading up to the committee assignment, according to APA records.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 31, 2015
According to Wikipdia, the FNC was “was chartered by the US National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Computing, Information and Communications (CCIC) to act as a forum for networking collaborations among US federal agencies…” It was dissolved in 1997.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
thanks to the initiative of the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, a dedicated Committee of experts and members of the Parliament from the Committee on Internet Rights and Duties. An ad hoc study commission of the Italian Chamber of Deputies has published a draft “Declaration of Internet Rights” that should be cause for cheers and cheer. It’s currently open for public comment at the Civici Platform — which by itself is pretty cool.
David Weinberger
DECEMBER 19, 2012
The search committee is pretty fabulous, so I have confidence that this is going to be an amazing hire. The Digital Public Library of America is looking for an executive director. This is an incredible opportunity to make a difference. I think it’d be fantastic if this person were to come out of the large, community-based Web collaboration space, but there are many other ways for the DPLA to go right.
Jay Cross
MARCH 16, 2013
Senate, and twice headed the Democratic National Committee. More than a century ago, my great great grandfather, Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, bought a large ranch for hunting quail smack dab in the heart of Texas.
Ross Dawson
JUNE 16, 2015
The Committee for Economic Development for Australia (CEDA) today launched a landmark publication Australia’s Future Workforce?
Euen Semple
AUGUST 4, 2016
Four years ago the Olympic Committee's attempt to ban social media at The London Olympics seemed laughable. The collapse of that ban, and the resulting enthusiasm and fun that social media enabled, subsequently played a large part in those games' success. And yet four years on here they are making silly pronouncements about what people can and can't share from the Rio games. It's like they are in denial. They really don't appear to know what to do with the loss of control.
David Weinberger
MARCH 25, 2009
Hearst Corporation, Illinois Press Association, Online News Association, Public Citizen, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Tribune Company, in asking an Illinois appellate court to protect the rights of anonymous speakers online by imposing procedural safeguards before requiring that their identities be disclosed.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Recently, the House Science Committee held a hearing on American leadership in quantum computing. Earlier this year, Scientific American , in collaboration with the World Economic Forum , published a special report on The Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2017.
Mind Hacks
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
“Psychiatric diagnoses are not valid because they are decided by a committee” I’m sorry to break it to you, but all medical diagnoses are decided by committee. These committees shift the boundaries, revise, reject and resurrect diagnoses across medicine.
Euen Semple
JULY 3, 2016
Does replacing that mad scientist with a committee make things better or worse? Dave Snowden and I have had many exchanges over the years about the need to balance individual responsibility with collective change. How does any group change happen without individuals behaving differently? How much structure is optimal? When does a focus on individual change tip into what he calls New Age Fluffy Bunnydom? When does tweaking the system towards predetermined outcomes tip into playing god?
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 25, 2016
Emergence Alan Levine writes, "I am looking for a metaphor or a real example of something maybe complex or just larger/valuable that does not arise solely from adding up many small components. The meaning of a sentence does not arise solely from the meanings of the words that make it up.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 21, 2013
The FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee’s 2013 Annual Report has been posted. I’m happy to see the Committee address the difficult issue of specialized services, and to do so with the clear intent of (a) not letting access to the open Internet be sacrificed, and(b) not allowing special services to be an end run around an open Internet. The OIAC is a civilian group, headed by Jonathan Zittrain [twitter: zittrain ].
Andy McAfee
OCTOBER 25, 2012
If you’re at all local you should go, and I don’t just say that because I’ve been on the technology advisory committee from the start. The always-excellent Boston Book Festival is this Saturday in Copley Square in Boston.
Nine Shift
JULY 28, 2011
In little River Falls, pop 12,500, the Democratic National Committee is sending in top organizers for the last week. The last week of the campagins, and outside entities are coming in, along with millions of dollars.
Ross Dawson
MAY 28, 2014
Two weeks ago I gave the closing keynote at the Boards of Directors and Supervisory Committees Conference of the U.S. National Association of Federal Credit Unions in the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui, on the topic of Profiting From Technology Trends. The credit union sector in the U.S outperformed commercial banks after the financial crisis according to the very interesting ILO study Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives , moving from 42.8% to 45.0%
Ross Dawson
JANUARY 19, 2012
reports : A vocal opponent of SOPA and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa started KeepTheWebOpen.com , a website that allows anyone to contribute to the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, known as OPEN. Though ultimate authorship will fall to Issa, user markups and comments are expected to make their way to the draft presented to the congressional committee.
David Weinberger
JUNE 3, 2009
There are 25 Senators on the committee that confirms FCC commissioners. So, Britt Blaser had the idea that we all together could come up with the 25 questions we want asked, and then provide one question per Senator, with backing material, etc. There’s a “starter kit&# of 13 questions up on a survey , with space for you to add your own. There’s also a “Fast Internet for All&# Facebook app that can connect Senators to questions.
Doc Searls
MARCH 8, 2016
Yahoo Hires Advisers, Forms Committee to Explore Options | Digital – AdAge. This continues my pre-Spring housecleaning of remembered tabs. #1 1 is here. The spork, the pressure cooker, and the back burner … | deadpenguinsociety. VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 1) — diginomica. VRM — the flipside of CRM breaks out (part 2) — diginomica. The mainframe lives on in IBM’s LinuxONE | ZDNet. My Explorations of Blockchain Technology, One Year In | Phil Gomes | LinkedIn.
Mind Hacks
OCTOBER 9, 2016
The Hidden Persuaders project has interviewed neuropsychologist Tim Shallice about his opposition to the British government’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the Northern Ireland conflict of the 1970s – a practice eventually abandoned as torture.
Mind Hacks
OCTOBER 9, 2016
The Hidden Persuaders project has interviewed neuropsychologist Tim Shallice about his opposition to the British government’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation’ in the Northern Ireland conflict of the 1970s – a practice eventually abandoned as torture.
Nancy White
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology and as Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries. I need your help and recommendations!
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