CYBER-SCOUT HYPER-LINK MONTHLY TABLE:
Links of Videos, Events, Data Visualization, Simulation, Collective Intelligence, Mobile,
DARPA/Government, Public Services, Public Intelligence, New Tech & Education Potential,
Organizing Software, Free/Open Source.
Sept. 2007 – Oct. 11, 2009 archive from the Executive Director for EIN, Jason Liszkiewicz
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CATAGORY
DATE
REASON
LINK
“Dot GOV” Websites
10/20/07
dot gov sites (loaded)
http://www.thememor
yhole.com/govt/dotgo
v_domains3.htm
“Why We Fight”
Documentary
10/24/07
Cultural investigation
1
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=xYeuzG24mo
2
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=FV6cSUy
eNQA
3
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=xi6mMFif
MQY
4
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=afBMu6g
GdK8
2008 Event
11/15/07
design and decision support for
urban planning event in the
Netherlands
http://2008.ddss.nl
9-11/Art
09/24/07
odd fictitious non-fiction based
film has many interesting 911
facets called "Who Killed John 'O
http://video.google.co
m/videoplay?docid=-
Neill"
385791766352314445
7
9-11/Citizen Investigation 09/11/07
318 slides from architects &
engineers for 9/11 truth
http://www.ae911trut
h.net/ppt/ae911-1.php
9-11/Citizen Investigation 09/11/07
LOADED 16 part series
01 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=Odp1FO0Vmu
w
02 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=i7BSt9jhxPQ
03 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=Pd8B-8Au-Wk
04 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=1rQ8_Qy0zp8
05 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=m3JmXQ-z8S4
06 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=em_XyTeNA1g
07 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=EZ9BofDUXv0
08 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=tIx2CVRxRXg
09 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=NHJHAp49Lh8
10 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=IZVHsrncd3Y
11 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=puWqNJI8Mjo
12 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=b5JVYTxjmdc
13 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=xs4eHvD-BrE
14 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=HXk0LFVAgHE
15 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=4oYjsVdm7dE
16 =
http://youtube.com/w
atch?v=iFqYf-ID5oY
9-11/Citizen Investigation 09/11/07
Short amount of video and audio
that tells alot
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=_0eC3un
s3pA
9-11/Citizen Investigation 09/03/07
911 mysteries demolition video
http://tinyurl.com/2rw
obt
9-11/Community-Building 09/17/07
Movie called 9/12: Chaos to
Community
http://912film.com
9-11/television
09/03/07
this pilot tv show "the lone
gunmen" predicted planes being
flown into buildings on tv 6
months before the real incidents
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=kQyYuW
Xp3E8
Amazon.com
11/15/07
“human intelligence task”
http://www.mturk.co
m/mturk/welcome
China/Chinese made
products
09/26/07
Made in China resource
http://www.made-inchina.com
Chinese Mobile Empire
Development +
Rockefeller
09/25/07
supposedly these guys were the
1st to penetrate the Chinese
mobile
market in 2001 and on the team
you will find Nicholas Rockefeller
mentioned in the video interview
as having a disdain for the nonelite
http://www.globalagor
a.com/matzorkissnowden/
http://www.globalagor
a.com/team.htm
http://kickthemallout.
com/staticpages/index
.php/Videos_Russo_In
terview_Nick_Rockefell
er
CIA/parody
10/25/07
CIA MySpace
http://tinyurl.com/2ku
8ej
Citizen Presidential
Dialogue
11/21/07
open dialogue with the 2008 U.S.
presidential candidates! There
are no time limits, no
mediators. YOU ask the
questions. They give answers
about the future of America. And
we all can explore this unique
format for presidential debate.
http://createdebate.ga
ther.com
City Data Centers/New
Orleans
09/13/07
Greater new orleans data center
http://www.gnocdc.or
g
Collaboration Potential
09/09/07
U.N. Daily Brief which could be of
use related to EIN
http://www.un.org/Ne
ws/ossg/hilites.htm
Company Data
10/30/07
2,000 largest public companies
http://tinyurl.com/ysq
257
Company Profile
11/01/07
mentioned in Wired about
Google's "OpenSocial"
http://www.comscore.
com
DARPA/Information
Exploitation
09/21/07
DARPA-tech2007, exciting and
strange world of IXO
http://dtsn.darpa.mil/i
xo/dt07_intro.asp
Data Layering Photos
10/07/07
layering flickr photos with data,
ideas, and links
http://www.flickr.com/
photos/14406767@N0
5/1510137399/
Democratic
initiative/Collab Potential
09/02/07
advance democracy and empower
the People
http://www.ni4d.org
Dubai Development
"Give me knowledge and
intelligence, I'll give you
glory and pride."
11/02/07
"Give me knowledge and
intelligence, I'll give you glory
and pride."
With these words, His Highness
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al
Maktoum,
Vice-President and Prime Minister
of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai,
yesterday announced Dubai
Strategic Plan 2015 that will take
Dubai to the next stage of growth
and development. The Dubai
Strategic Plan (DSP) 2015 will
help the emirate achieve 11 per
cent annual growth in
GDP to Dh396.36 billion ($108
billion) by 2015 from the current
Dh137.25 billion ($37.4 billion)
and raise per capita GDP to
$44,000 from $31,140 now by
creating 882,000 new jobs,
bringing total employment to
1.73 million. The plan launched under the theme "Dubai
... Where The Future Begins”
http://www.42internat
ional.com/dubai.htm
EarthGame Expansion
Potential
10/09/07
EarthGame + eLumenati multimedia theater convergence
http://www.elumenati.
com/newsletter/#1
EIN Collab Potential
09/19/07
many similar initiatives to EIN,
expert recruitments & Lessig on
the board of directors
http://www.dufoundati
on.org/press
EIN Collab/Funding
Potential
10/24/07
"putting world changing ideas
into action"
http://www.poptech.c
om/accelerator
EIN Funding Potential?
11/11/07
DHS grant related
http://www.citizencorp
s.gov/news/press/200
7/2007_04_17.shtm
Enviro/Property Conflict
11/13/07
environmental movement related
to the abolition of property
http://takingliberty.us/
TLHome.html
Futility of Secrecy/Parody
10/27/07
Congress satire presenting a bill
that is mostly classified
http://tinyurl.com/3ac
zjv
Guantanamo testimonials
09/28/07
Guantanamo testimonials project
http://tinyurl.com/299
ud2
Historic Video Content
10/11/07
1932 plot to overthrow FDR
video. Smedley Butler who fought
for veterans, eventually singled
out by Wall
St. big money figures to
gradually work to overthrow the
powers of Franklin Roosevelt who
then exposed their plot where
even video footage survives of
his public warnings
http://tinyurl.com/3c9
2h6
Impeachment
09/17/07
Philadelphia platform = truth,
peace, impeachment that I heard
about from Webster Tarpley
http://actindependent.
org
Information
Mapping/Animation
09/13/07
geo spat data/open
street/wiki/quick vids
http://www.foss4g200
7.org/
https://www.osgeo.or
g/
http://www.openstreet
map.org/
http://tinyurl.com/2tlh
j5
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=wyuzfz4
X5Ls
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=73Y0lQH
aALs
Information-Mapping
09/11/07
wiki rome mapmaking project via
MIT
http://www.wikinomic
s.com/blog/index.php/
2007/09/11/wiki-cityrome
Internet Event for Dec
2008
11/04/07
Internet governance forum for
dec2008
http://www.intgovforu
m.org
Iraq Video
09/17/07
HBO show “alive day memories:
home from iraq”, acquaintance of
Hbloom's worked on the show
http://www.hbo.com/e
vents/aliveday
Joint military intel college
10/20/07
titles of masters thesis' from the
joint military intel college
http://www.thememor
yhole.com/spy/jmictheses.htm
Kroll Inc. Crime
09/24/07
Supposedly Kroll agents led to
the death/murder of a
whistleblower/senior risk analyst
Richard Chang at Abbey National
http://www.lyte.pwp.b
lueyonder.co.uk/rc/mai
n.htm
Bank in the U.K.
Law
09/10/07
Justice department opposes net
neutrality
http://www.publickno
wledge.org/node/1177
Law
09/10/07
Judge discards Patriot Act Part as
unconstitutional
http://tinyurl.com/3xz
zac
Law/Gov relations with
Corporations
09/10/07
"It would seem that the President
and the Justice Department
cannot do enough for AT&T and
the other companies that agreed
to spy on the American people.
Without network neutrality,
companies are free to turn over
user information without a
warrant or block users from
desired
content — as AT&T recently did
'accidentally' by blocking Pearl
Jam's criticism of the President
during a concert performance
carried on AT&T's broadband
service."
http://www.mediaacce
ss.org/press/2007-0906-DOJNNResponse.pdf
Lebanon
09/21/07
Lebanon video library
http://yalibnan.com/si
te/tv/politics/
Lebanon/Mobile
10/20/07
explore lebanon pda
http://www.geekcorps
.org/wpcontent/uploads/imag
es/lebanon-gpspda.jpg
http://www.geekcorps
.org/2007/07/aim-itto-launch-first-pdanav/
DC museum/visualizing data
exhibit
http://www.koshlands
ciencemuseum.org
Mapping/Historic parallels 09/24/07
6 nation natives of NY state mapanimation parallel to Iraq
Was sent this from someone who
attends military history
presentations each week
http://www.sullivancli
nton.com/mapset/shel
l.swf
Marijuana Organization
11/03/07
155 cities co-ordinating for May
3, 2008
http://www.globalmari
juanamarch.org
Micro-Videos
10/27/07
micro videos that can become
much better
http://videos.howstuff
works.com
Mobile
11/05/07
Open Handset Alliance
http://www.openhand
setalliance.com
Mobile
09/16/07
Mobile digital commons Canada
http://www.wi-not.ca
Local exhibit/visualizing
data
09/02/07
Mobile/Mapping
09/12/07
mobile mapping device
http://tinyurl.com/332
wz3
Mobile/SMS
10/17/07
Receive messages from various
groups, which are organized
around a range of different
topics. 1st developed by the
Institute for Applied Autonomy
for protestors at the Democratic
National Convention in Boston
and the Republican National
Convention in New York.
Tad Hirsch, a researcher in MIT's
Smart Cities Group continues to
offer TXTmob as a free service to
the general public, and is
currently coordinating a major
software upgrade
http://txtmob.com
Money Video
10/27/07
Fiat Empire video
http://tinyurl.com/26r
6tj
New Company Emergence 10/30/07
Afghan woman's mobile company
http://www.forbes.co
m/free_forbes/2007/0
416/174.html
New Movie Euro-Jihad
Related
10/16/07
Swedish release movie eurojihad related
http://www.iht.com/ar
ticles/2007/10/15/afri
ca/sweden.php
New Tech
09/19/07
Pulp-based computing
http://tinyurl.com/32v
mzh
New Tech Potential
10/09/07
(potentially) future mobile
interactive intel pods
http://senseable.mit.e
du/bus_stop/
http://senseable.mit.e
du/biennale/smart_mo
bility.pdf
New Web Interfaces
09/16/07
Shift-Space web interface
http://www.shiftspace.
org/screencasts/intro/i
ndex.html
Non-Profit Services DC to
China
11/21/07
offices in DC, London & Shanghai
related to non-profits
http://socialtechnologi
es.com
North Korea Education
Developments
11/03/07
1st north korean higher edu
school operated by outsiders
"building the future"
http://www.pust.or.kr/
eng/about_pust/home
-message.html
NYC Opportunities in
Commercial Intelligence
11/20/07
"..focus on providing better City
services through a more
accessible, transparent and
accountable City government."
http://www.nyc.gov/ht
ml/doitt/downloads/pd
f/nyc-plan-it-08.pdf
"single-city information
technology enterprise"
"integrating disparate data and
systems"
"NYC transforms the way we act
with residents, businesses, and
employees, by leveraging
technology to improve services,
increase
accessibility, transparency and
accountability across all City
agencies."
Open Access to Science
10/03/07
public library of science (pushing
open access)
http://www.plos.org
Prez Daily Brief
11/10/07
Corporate content and the prez
daily brief
http://tinyurl.com/3xz
5xc
Public + Gov Collab
09/28/07
Public + police + online
community to redesign the
legislation to reflect the
challenges of
modern day policing, and to
better position New Zealand
Police for the future.
http://www.policeact.g
ovt.nz/introduction.ht
ml
SMS/Mobile
09/27/07
Stories delivered via sms
http://mobileactive.or
g/ghosttown
SMS/MOBILE
09/03/07
example of using this for EIN
instead of merely space updates
(sms updates)
http://www.space2pho
ne.com/spacecom.do
Social Networking for
Travelers
12/23/07
social networking meets practical
needs for travelers
http://www.travelersfo
rtravelers.com
Software to Organize
Knowledge
11/12/07
New info-organizing site
http://www.twine.com
Spooks Using Gaming
10/19/07
gaming + british intelligence
advertising
http://games.slashdot.
org/article.pl?sid=07/1
0/19/150211
Subversive
Technologies/Mapping
10/17/07
Developing technologies for
citizens to defend their way of life
http://www.appliedaut
onomy.com
http://www.appliedaut
onomy.com/video/Brid
gingTheGap_DSLM.mo
v
http://www.appliedaut
onomy.com/terminalai
r/index.html
True-Cost Related
10/01/07
potential future component for
true cost standard
http://www.revenuew
atch.org
True-Cost/Mapping
10/21/07
product space and wealth of
nations
http://www.nd.edu/~n
etworks/productspace/
index.htm
http://www.sciencene
ws.org/articles/20070
901/bob9.asp
Uncovered history
previously buried
09/09/07
video/william pepper, attorney to
james earl ray and mlk family,
supposed 28 yrs of research
related to MLK events
http://www.archive.or
g/details/William_Pepp
er
Veterans Stories
10/03/07
stories from those in combat
throughout war history
http://www.loc.gov/ve
ts/vets-portal.html
http://www.loc.gov/ve
ts/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
diglib/vhp/html/search
/search.html
Video library
09/11/07
Large video library
http://kickthemallout.
com/staticpages/index
.php/Rapid-U_Index
Video talk/power
10/10/07
David Galipeau transitioned into
UN from working with "all the
evils"
Someone you may be able to
relate to, a guy now working with
the UN
who transitioned from working
with finance, big pharma, big
tobacco,
and DARPA talking about civil
society and the internets transfer
of
power
(Bruce Sterling also presented at
this conference)
http://www.liftconfere
nce.com/videos/view/s
ingle/45
“Innovation is not what
technology can do innovation is what people
adopt”
Video/Criminal Tactics
11/08/07
“criminal enterprise and its
pattern”
http://video.google.co
m/videoplay?docid=396288361096255650
4
Virtual Think Tank
09/10/07
Virtual think tank of Pakistan
http://www.tadbir.com
.pk
Wiki + Mapping
11/04/07
“Wikimapia” example
http://www.wikimapia.
org/#lat=23.005725&lon=43.326344&z=15&l=0
&m=h&v=2
Wiki-Manipulation/WikiWatch
09/16/07
Wiki-scanner project to see who
is editing wiki-pages
http://wikiscanner.virg
il.gr
Wiki-Manipulation/WikiWatch
09/16/07
wikipedia defects be-fit for the
corrupt
http://tinyurl.com/27w
454
Wisdom Council Related
09/18/07
elders tapped to help give advice
to young people online
http://www.elderwisdo
mcircle.org
OCT. 2009
SEPT. 2009
Afghan law allows
http://tr.im/BsiH
husbands to deny wives
food if they fail to obey
sexual demands
AUG. 2009
"America’s Children:
http://www.docuticker.co
Key National Indicators m/?p=26796
of Well-Being, 2009"
Life after Yucca
Mountain. Geologist
Allison MacFarlane on
the future of nuclear
waste, & what it means
for nuclear power.
Nation-wide coal-ash
site-secrecy
250 digital libraries &
archives
"NASA -- Earth"
homepage
NASA Earth-orbiting
spacecraft, provide
further evidence for the
rapid, ongoing
transformation of the
Arctic's ice cover
Online game where you
are trying to get on the
NYC ballot as a
candidate
Janine
Benyus/Biomimicry
Institute on carbon
sequestration concrete
& designs that improve
energy efficiency
Interview: author P.W.
Singer, sci-fi's influence
on the military, robots
used in warfare, ethics, &
civilian drone-use
http://tr.im/mw9i
cool tools & misc stuff
http://www.madeby
many.co.uk
“Classifieds”
Aside from Craigslist,
here's more free
classifieds for the United
States
http://is.gd/DWpa
“Climate Change”/Climate
Destabilization events
Influential activities in the
“climate change” world
http://www.globalcli
matechangecoalition
.blogspot.com
Find and send
https://forms.house.
gov/wyr/welcome.sh
tml
“Contacting Your
Representative”
10/28/08
http://www.fcw.com
/online/news/15406
3-1.html
“Cyber-Security”
“Electoral Reform”
3/25/08
“Internet Backbone”
“One Planet Mobility”
10/26/08
NYC Citizen Action
Movement to clean up the
election process
http://www.citizenac
tionny.org/cmce/cmc
efacts.html
Map of Cogent
Communications'
worldwide reach
http://upload.wikime
dia.org/wikipedia/en
/2/29/Cogent-Q12008-Map.jpg
New initiative, report out
Oct. 30, 2008
http://www.wwf.org.
uk/what_we_do/cha
nging_the_way_we_l
ive/transport/one_pl
anet_mobility/index.
cfm
“Range Voting”
http://rangevoting.o
rg
5/30/08
“Strange” news
The High Weirdness
Project. Strange news
from a strange world
http://tr.im/Bskb
“Whole Body Imaging”
Campaign to Suspend
'Whole Body Imaging' at
Nation's Airports
http://is.gd/IRiu
“Wiki Answers”
http://wiki.answers.
com/
7/25/08
1,600 yr books online
Oldest New Testament
Bible Online (1,600
years old, Greek)
http://www.codexsinaiticu
s.org/en/
3-D Interface
3-D interface you don't
have to touch
http://is.gd/v6Xm
3D Data Viz Library
"GoogleEarth Library"
http://is.gd/LYCQ
Video overview
http://www.3dintern
et.com/corporatevid
eo/
3D/City
"Scalable City" 3D
animation trailer
http://tinyurl.com/b
8utwu
3D/Map
Goal to map the "entire
world" in 3D (Tele
Atlas)
http://tr.im/Bsg4
50 states/Freedom
Ranking
"Freedom in the 50
States: Index of Personal
and Economic Freedom"
(Colorado/NH/S.Dak 1st,
NY 50th)
http://is.gd/lKgt
9-11/audio
(mp3) Architects for 9/11
truth (600 members),
latest research of molten
iron + thermite evidence
at the base of towers
http://tr.im/nXsw
9-11/exercises
National Archive
http://tr.im/oNYA
document lists US
military hijack exercises
1998-2001. Sim of
terrorists targeting NYC
on 09/09/01
3D Internet
8/05/08
9-11/Petition
Development on the Sept.
11 new investigation
needing more petition
signatures & funds
http://nyccan.org
9-11/Secrecy
Nearly 1 million pages
related to Sept. 11, 2001
attacks remain secret for
unknown period of time
http://tr.im/hOUO
911/Legal denied
The under-publicized
list of people (pilots,
engineers, military,
survivors, professors,
etc) questioning the 9/11
story
http://patriotsquestion911.
com
&
http://nyccan.org/Decision
_Denied.php (will of
people petition denied)
AdBlock/Firefox
Get rid of online ads with
this Firefox add-on,
Adblock Plus
http://tinyurl.com/2
cd87q
Afghan
Afghanistan war photos
from Cryptome.org
Afghanistan/Briefs
Afghanistan brief 1 (military
brief in zip file)
http://tr.im/i2Gt
Afghanistan brief 2 (military
brief in zip file)
http://tr.im/i2GK
Afghanistan/Mobile/Radio
State Dept $150M to
Fight Afghan & Pak
Militants Via Mobile
Phones & Radio
Stations
Afghanistan/Oil
"Trans-Afghanistan
http://nxnlz.tk
Pipeline" projected to be
completed by 2014
Afghanistan/Photos
Afghanistan war photos http://cryptome.org/
af-photo-war-04/afphoto-war-04.htm
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=8059
http://www.mobileaf
rica.net/
Africa Mobile
Africa/arid
Camel-farming as
http://bit.ly/VdyAU
adaptive relief for those
living in arid African
regions?
Africa/bed-nets
Problem with Ashton
Kutcher's African bednetting intentions
http://tr.im/Bsxj
http://tr.im/jPiC
Africa/Mobile/Documentar
y
"Hello Africa" trailer for
documentary on mobile
device use in Africa
Africa/money
"Hiding Africa's Looted http://wikileaks.org/wiki/
Funds: The Silence of
Hiding_Africa%27s_Loot
Western Media"
ed_Funds:_The_Silence_
of_Western_Media
Africa/Soil/Mapping
Development of soil maps
and a soil health
surveillance system for
sub-Saharan Africa
http://is.gd/uS4q
Africa/TED
journalist Andrew
Mwenda asks us to
reframe the "African
question" -- to look
beyond the media's
stories of poverty, civil
war and helplessness and
see the opportunities for
creating wealth and
happiness throughout the
continent.
http://www.ted.com
/index.php/talks/and
rew_mwenda_takes
_a_new_look_at_afri
ca.html
African/Energy
African energy
intelligence (pay site)
http://www.africaint
elligence.com
Agri-data
USDA "Census of
Agriculture" 2007 data
http://is.gd/YD0u
Air Pollution
American Lung
Association "State of the
Air" (pollution) in
American cities
http://is.gd/vnAb
Alert System
“Global Impact
Vulnerability Alert
System”
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=12011
Alerts/Mapping
Reposting: "Alert Map" of
storms, earthquakes,
epidemics, and other
enviro threats
http://tr.im/i0X1
Algae Biomass
The 2008 Algae Biomass
Summit Wrap-up
http://www.renewab
leenergyworld.com/r
ea/news/story?id=5
4033
Forums (T. Boone
Pickens)
http://push.pickensp
lan.com/groups
Amazon Review Archive
Incredible archive of
Amazon reviews by
Robert Steele, CEO of
Earth Intelligence
Network on many
important topics/books
http://tr.im/hOG8
Amazon.com/Public Intel
Amazon.com as a base
http://tr.im/i7f2
Alternative Energy
7/24/08
for "Global Public
Intelligence & Public
Policy Network"?
Amazon/forum
People-powered questionanswer forum by Amazon
(a lot of garbage
cluttering this site but it's
in beta)
http://askville.amaz
on.com/Index.do
http://aws.amazon.c
om/publicdatasets/
Amazon/Public Data
America Dream
"Is the American Dream
a vision or an illusion?"
(Bill Moyers Journalrelated survey)
American Drug War
Extra footage of former
spy Robert Steele telling
it like it is, from the
documentary,
"American Drug War The Last White Hope."
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wlVCbWlx5y8
&
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=zoUMyudlYFY
&NR=1
American history
Useful American
History Resource
(American Heritage)
http://is.gd/18zyH
American History/Video
American history in 6 min
fast photo slideshow
video
http://tinyurl.com/cz
tsbq
American Journalism
Pew's "State of the News
Media" annual report on
American journalism
http://tr.im/hOFq
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009
(407 pages)
http://tinyurl.com/b
8t8so
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act
Comment on the
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of
2009?
http://tinyurl.com/c
pafpl
American Revolution
"Too often, we forget that
America began with a
revolution...It's time to
join the resistance."
http://tr.im/hODy
Collection of locationbased casualty data
http://www.obleek.c
om/iraq/index.html
Animation/Meat & Poultry
(flash animation) Rate of
Slaughter of Chickens,
Pigs, and Cows in the
United States, 2008
(USDA stats, thanks
resourceshelf)
http://tr.im/juNx
Anti-priacy/Hollywood
Hollywoods anti-piracy
network global
http://is.gd/ytlh
Animated Maps/Iraq
10/06/08
membership (thanks
intelligenceonline.com)
Anti-Spam
"Researchers show how http://www.technologyrev
spammers harvest eiew.com/communications/
mail addresses and send 23003/
out bulk messages"
Arms dealing
US Arms Deliveries
http://tr.im/Bs42
Decreased by Almost
$1Bill in FY2008. Top 5
importers=Israel, Saudi
Arabia, South Korea,
Egypt & Poland
Assassination
Investigations
5/11/08
“Evidence Revision” part
5
http://tinyurl.com/5
4q25u
Assassination
Investigations
5/11/08
“Evidence Revision” part
4
http://tinyurl.com/5
69p2p
Assassination
Investigations
5/11/08
“Evidence Revision” part
3
http://tinyurl.com/4
s8rdo
Assassination
Investigations
5/11/08
“Evidence Revision” part
2
http://tinyurl.com/3
vgsce
Assassination
Investigations
5/11/08
“Evidence Revision” part
1
http://tinyurl.com/3
hgs53
http://www.teach12.
com
Audio Education
&
http://www.audible.
com is a good audio
subscription resource
Audio/Iraq
(audio) Former Eighth
District Congressman
John Hostettler Says Iraq
War Product of Fear, &
Pressure
http://tr.im/hOCf
Audio/Nixon & Helms
Audio of 10 conversations
between President Nixon
& Director of Central
Intelligence Richard
Helms
http://tinyurl.com/a
h37tg
Automated Telephone
Database of numbers to
bypass automated
telephone system
annoyances
http://www.gethuma
n.com
Bad business/banking
Hats off2 Rolling Stone http://tr.im/Bs90
& Matt Taibbi for a
tremendous
investigative journalism
piece on Goldman Sachs
& Gangster Capitalism
Barak Obama
Most searched google
term “Obama
assassination”
http://www.javno.co
m/en/world/clanak.p
hp?id=201173
Beyond Google
Beyond Google. In order
to start researching like a
librarian, you'll need to
explore more
authoritative resources
http://tr.im/ihar
Bin Laden/FBI
(old news revisited) For
the record, Bin Laden is
not wanted for Sept.11,
2001 according to the FBI
most wanted page
http://tr.im/iZoz
Biodiesel from Algae
4/11/08
Underpublicized
alternative for the near
future
http://peswiki.com/i
ndex.php/Directory:
Biodiesel_from_Alga
e_Oil
Biofuels
4/12/08
October biofuels event in
China
http://www.worldbio
fuelssymposium.com
/ema/DisplayPage.as
px?pageId=Home
Blackwater
Blackwater kicked out
of Iraq, now they are
taking their reckless
business to Afghanistan
Bodily Integrity Act
The "Bodily Integrity Act"
prohibiting forced
implantation of
identification and tracking
devices in individuals
http://tr.im/hOJJ
Book/Community Dev
Audio book “Making the
Impossible Possible” by
Bill Strickland.
Over the past 30 years,
Bill Strickland has been
transforming the lives of
thousands of people
through the creation of
Manchester Bidwell, a
jobs training center and
community arts program.
Working with
corporations, community
leaders, and schools, he
and his staff strive to give
disadvantaged kids and
adults the opportunities
and tools they need to
envision and build a
better, brighter future.
http://tinyurl.com/7
9cgme
http://www.millermccune.com/article
/a-povertyantidote-goesglobal
http://tr.im/i4tK
Border Tunnels
Proliferation of tunnels
beneath US border(s)
Boston/CI
Boston police dealing
http://www.stolenbikesbos
with bike theft utilizing ton.com
technology and
collective intelligence
Brazil/Curitiba
Curitiba, Brazil as a
model for city solutions in
that region
British Gov/Public Info
British/Privacy
http://tinyurl.com/d
n49nt
http://www.showusa
betterway.co.uk
10/17/08
Privacy versus British
government
http://tr.im/jPzo but
recall 80% of CCTV
images 'ineffective'
http://tr.im/jPAm
http://challenge.bfi.
org
Buckminster Fuller
Challenge
Budget/Education
Teaching and discussion
materials for college
students and other
citizens concerned about
the federal budget deficit
and the national debt
(there was also a pay
competition)
http://www.facingup
.org
Budget/Gaming
“BudgetHero” game to
control tax dollar
spending
http://budgethero.p
ublicradio.org/widget
/widget.php?refid=a
pm
Burma/dictatorship
Undercover video
journalists in Burma
reporting news from
their closed country,
risking torture & life in
jail
Bush Admin Investigation
“Truth commission for the
Bush era?”
http://tinyurl.com/cj
fq6k
Bush/Activism
Seeing the Bush era
through stickers
http://flickr.com/pho
tos/menchetti/sets/7
2157609278381161
Business Rolodex
5/10/08
C02 removal
Campaign Ads
9/12/08
Campaign Donors
5/10/08
“world's largest rolodex”?
http://www.jigsaw.c
om
Direct removal of carbon
dioxide from the air
http://tinyurl.com/b
u5tju
Videos of old political
campaign ads
http://www.livingroo
mcandidate.org
http://fundrace.huffi
ngtonpost.com
Campaign Money
"revealing the influence of
campaign money on
state-level elections and
public policy in all 50
states."
http://www.followth
emoney.org
Canada/Open Gov
Two Canadian open
government/transparency
sites
http://is.gd/v9jW &
http://is.gd/v9jX
Carbon footprint/Banking
Interesting "carbon
calculator" relating
Canadian banks and
carbon emissions
http://climatefriendl
ybanking.org
Cell towers
Open source project,
http://www.opencellid.org
aiming to create a
complete database of all
cell towers
Censorship/Media
Top 25 CENSORED
Stories in the USA
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=12021
Censorship/Sudan
Sudanese gov trying to
issue law to monitor
journalists
http://is.gd/FWaX
Censorship/Tools/AntiCensorship
2007 Circumvention
Landscape Report:
Methods, Uses, and Tools
(evading censorship)
Anonymizer, Ultrareach,
DynaWeb Freegate,
Circumventor/CGIProxy,
Psiphon, Tor, JAP, Coral,
and Hamachi
http://www.docutick
er.com/?p=25066
Change.gov Forum
http://change.gov/p
age/content/200812
11_openforquestions
Change/ResolutionSeeking
http://www.change.
org
Charity Navigator
5/10/08
“guide to intelligent
giving”
http://www.charityn
avigator.org
Charles Taylor Trial
Website on the trial of
Charles Taylor, former
brutal president & warlord
of Liberia
http://is.gd/FNcr
Child Abuse/Censorship
2,600 page report on
child abuse in Roman
Catholic-run Irish schools
doesn't report the names
of the abusers
http://is.gd/BJBk
Child Soldiers
"Coalition to stop the use
of child soldiers"
http://is.gd/FZPk
Children/Women/Data
Data/stats on children
and women worldwide
http://www.childinfo
.org
China
http://responsiblechi
na.com/
10/28/08
China Factory working
conditions
High Tech Misery/Chinese
factory working
conditions report
http://www.nlcnet.or
g/article.php?id=613
China Firewall
8/11/08
Jumping the great firewall
of China
http://www.ccc.de/u
pdates/2008/chinese
wall?language=en
China-America relations
5/09/08
Public survey by the
Chinese-American group
“Committee100”
http://www.survey.c
ommittee100.org/20
07/files/C100Survey
FullReport.pdf
China/Banned Content
From Cryptome.org
http://cryptome.cn
China/censorship
Analysis of China's
http://is.gd/10SMu
Green Dam Censorware
system (sec vul &
errors)
China/computer-spy
"China's Spy in the
Home" (announcement
that all PCs sold in
China must include
government-approved
filtering software)
http://is.gd/107Lq
China/documentaries
Tiananmen Square
Massacre Film &
Documentaries
http://is.gd/RDex
China/Free China
10/30/08
(In Chinese)
http://www.freechin
a.net
China/Surveillance
10/30/08
Researchers in China
have estimated that
30,000 or more "Internet
police" monitor online
traffic, Web sites and
blogs for political and
http://benton.org/no
de/17513
other offending content in
what is called the Golden
Shield Project or the
Great Firewall of China.
Cities
10 Oldest Still-Inhabited http://tr.im/BrFU
Cities
Cities/IBM
IBM, "smarter cities,"
http://tr.im/Btiu
smarter about water,
public safety, NYPD
collaboration, and more
Citing Sources
8/13/08
“Facts” on controversial
topics with sources cited
Citizen Action
9/01/08
Connect this with
http://zfacts.com
www.citizensolutions
www.citizensummit .tv
.us
Citizen complaints
Neighborhood problemposting outpost for things
in need of fixing (such as
potholes)
http://seeclickfix.co
m
Citizen Intelligence
Network
Internet "citizen spies"
filling in gaps on N. Korea
http://is.gd/CWy5
Citizen Lab
http://civisec.org/ab
out/the-citizen-lab
9/10/08
Citizen Media Law
Citizen Media Law Project
http://www.citmedia
law.org
City
“How do you want to
reinvent your city?”
http://diycity.org
City History Mapping
"Hypercities" similar to
ideas at
"Hypercities"
(NYC event) Sentient
City Sept-Nov
http://www.sentientcity.ne
t/exhibit
"hothouse" that brings
together social scientists,
filmmakers, computer
scientists, activists, and
artists
http://www.citizenla
b.org
Civics/Gaming
Civics game for
people/kids to learn about
basic aspects of the legal
system
http://www.ourcourt
s.org
Co-Op Directory
Directory for cooperatives
& workplace democracy.
Desire for a democratic
economy is growing.
http://is.gd/tOdb
Diversification of this site
has grown tremendously
http://www.cooperat
iveresearch.org/proj
http://is.gd/K8AE
City/NYC/Tech
Civic Society/Internet
Co-operative Research
10/30/08
6/11/08
http://is.gd/K8AD
ect.jsp?project=wate
r_privatization_wars
_scarcity
Using google maps,
google earth, and a video
series to show the local
connection with use of
coal
http://ilovemountain
s.org
Coal Ash/Zip Code
See where coal ash is
disposed of, type a fivedigit zip code into the
search box
http://projects.publi
cintegrity.org/coalas
h/
Collab Editor
Gobby: "free
https://launchpad.net/gobb
collaborative editor
y
supporting multiple
documents in one
session and a multi-user
chat"
Coal
9/03/08
Collective Action
n/a
Interesting model related
to strength in numbers
http://www.pledgeb
ank.com
Collective Force
8/17/08
20-30 people tip over a
bus to save a woman, but
instead, save her unborn
child
http://www.nydailyn
ews.com/ny_local/br
onx/2008/08/14/200
8-0814_nypd_traffic_age
nt_dies_but_heroes_
save_-1.html
Collective Intelligence
Douglas Engelbart
http://www.youtube.com/
video. What tools can
watch?v=xQx-tuW9A4Q
harness collective
intelligence to apply to
common problems/reach
collective goals?
Collective Intelligence &
Programming
3/21/08
O'Reilly links
http://tinyurl.com/3
8w5uy
Collective Intelligence
related to Hardware
4/23/08
Exchanging product
experiences
http://www.fixya.co
m
Collective IQ
Douglas Engelbart
timeline of “co-evolution
of human systems and
tool systems” from 1925present
http://www.visualins
ight.net/_engelbart/
Engelbart_Mural.jpg
Commercial Free Radio
WBAI program schedule,
commercial free radio,
first ever listener-funded
radio station
http://tr.im/mJAH
Common short codes cost
Over-priced but useful
http://www.usshortc
SMS code service
odes.com/csc_get.ht
ml
Communications/Mapping
Global maps of submarine
communications cables
and Internet architecture
http://www.telegeog
raphy.com/maps/ind
ex.php
Community Funded
Reporting
Through Spot.Us the
public can commission
journalists to do
investigations on
important and perhaps
overlooked stories. All
donations are tax
deductible and if a news
organization buys
exclusive rights to the
content, your donation
will be reimbursed.
http://spot.us
Community info/Zipcode
"Community information
by zipcode"
(America/mostly
California)
http://library.csun.e
du/mfinley/zipstats.
html
Community Re-Use
http://www.freecycle
.org
10/25/08
Computational
Journalism/Data Mining
in the Public Interest
Parallels the Earth
Intelligence Networks
“Public Intelligence in the
Public Interest.”
http://www.millermccune.com/article/
deep-throat-meetsdata-mining
Computers/Residential
Heating
Heat from 1000's of
computer servers to heat
houses in London
http://tr.im/iZyw
Congress
http://changecongress.org
10/13/08
"Legistalker, the latest
online activity of
Congress members"
http://is.gd/upty
(Now let's merge CSPAN2
with the Web like
Voterwatch.org)
http://benton.org/no
de/17575
Congressional income
Trying to find out what
wealth members of
congress have
http://fortune535.su
nlightprojects.org
Congressional Research
Service reports
Wikileaks released nearly
a billion dollars worth of
quasi-secret reports
commissioned by the
American Congress
http://tinyurl.com/c
3mj8k
Contest
Google contest with
theme, "may those who
help the most win"
http://www.project1
0tothe100.com
Contest/traffic reduction
Malmo, Sweden
http://tr.im/o7xW
Congress-tracking
Congress/YouTube
10/30/08
"Parascopes" citizen
proposals on how to
reduce car traffic
(similar to Livable
Streets contest)
Corp Watch
Rebranding of
“Blackwater”
http://www.prwatch.
org/node/8214
Corporations
Interesting site, Stop
Corporate Abuse
http://is.gd/CfGV
Cotton/Textiles
“fiber footprint” and see
Covert Action Quarterly
Covert Action Quarterly's
archives from 1978 to
2000
http://covertaction.o
rg/content/section/4
/75
Crop Pollination
List of crops pollinated
by bees
http://tr.im/Bsdu
Crowd Funding
Examples, many links
provided
http://crowdfunding.
pbwiki.com
http://www.sustaina
http://waterfootpri blecotton.org/html/f
nt.org
ootprint_calculator/fi
ber_footprint.html
Crowdsourcing
4/14/08
CSIS/cyber security
10/30/08
http://www.crowdso
urcingdirectory.com
For the next presidency
http://www.csis.org/
tech/cyber/
Cyber-censorship
Cybercensorship &
collecting data about
Internet users are not
practices limited to
dictatorships
http://tr.im/ptPu
CyberLearning/Korea/podcast
Science magazine
podcast on cyber home
learning system in Korea
http://www.science
mag.org/cgi/content
/full/sci;323/5910/6
2/DC1
related news
http://isc.sans.org/n
ewssummary.html
Cyber-Security/Crime
Cisco Annual 2008
Security Report (52 page
pdf mentions "online
criminal ecosystem" &
"shadow internet
economy")
http://tr.im/hNTS
Danish Citizens Summit
“The citizens’ summit
puts the focus firmly on
the citizens themselves,
http://www.tekno.dk
/subpage.php3?articl
Cyber-Security
APRIL 2009 >
granting them the
opportunity of giving their
input to politicians and of
hearing their detailed
response to the questions
in the course of the
meeting.”
e=1232&toppic=kat
egori12&language=u
k\
DARPA
Defense Advanced
Research Agency (DARPA)
Strategic Plan May 2009
(57 page pdf)
http://is.gd/Bjad
DARPA/Prosthetics
Company that made the
"Segway" is building a
DARPA-funded prosthetic
arm
http://tinyurl.com/d
n97au
http://geocommons.
com
Data Finding
Data
management/insight/kno
wledge-linkage
3/13/08
Data Map
EIN relevance
http://tr.im/i8TW
Data map of countries at
the "World Bank" website
http://geo.worldban
k.org
Fusion Centers State by
State working with
private sector?
http://www.aclu.org
/privacy/gen/fusion_
map/
Data Mapping/Gov
5/27/08
Data Visualization
9/10/08
Data Visualization
6/20/08
Video of “code_swarm”
http://www.vimeo.c
om/1130828
Data Visualization
5/10/08
(beta) “Many Eyes”
http://services.alpha
works.ibm.com/man
yeyes/home
Data Visualization
3/22/08
NYC Museum of Modern
Art has a fantastic exhibit
until May 22
http://www.moma.o
rg/exhibitions/2008/
elasticmind
Data Visualization
n/a
Alternative method to
access YouTube content
http://www.studioim
c.com/imcspace/you
tube/
Data
Visualization/Animated
Data-Tracking
3/18/08
Tracking developments
that relate to the
“animation of
integration”/animating
knowledge relevant to
human life
http://www.ogleeart
h.com/2006/04/watc
h_ice_melt.html
visualization that shows
the mentions of the word
“transparency” in The
New York Times from
http://tinyurl.com/b
gyguo
Data Viz
http://flowingdata.c
om
1990 until 2009
Data Viz
The art of complex
problem-solving
http://www.idiagram
.com/CP/cpprocess.h
tml
Data Viz/Countries
Visual data map of
country codes on the Web
http://is.gd/FRlw
Data Viz/Nuclear Power
World Map of Nuclear
Power Reactors (Aug
2005)
http://is.gd/IzOV
De-corporatizing
"Life Inc" online movie
version on how life
became and corporation,
and how to take it back
http://tr.im/l3AG
Declassification/Criminal
Collaboration
$30+ million & 10+ yrs to
declassify U.S.
intelligence agencies
involvement with Nazi &
Japanese war criminals
http://tinyurl.com/bl
7gbw
Defense Contracts
Defense contracts
http://www.defenseli
nk.mil/Contracts/ind
ex.aspx
Video
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=bTDd
OSktQSU
Past event on September
18-21 in DC
http://www.mobilize
.org/index.php?tray
=content&cid=11DC
92&tid=top364
Democracy
8/27/08
Democracy 2.0
http://democracyctr.
org/bolivia/investiga
tions/
Democracy/Bolivia
Democracy/Video
10/13/08
Mellow presentation
Future of democracy in the
information age
Democracy/Video
8/29/08
Documentary: The War
on Democracy by John
Pilger
http://video.google.
com/videoplay?docid
=3739500579629840
148&ei=zjO4SM6SC
4ToqgLTx9D1DA&q=
the+war+on+democ
racy
British contest to design a
"democracy bench" (.pdf)
http://is.gd/K27h
Design
Design & Emotion
Conference
10/26/08
http://www.sd.polyu
.edu.hk/de2008/
DHS
"The Problems w/the
Dept of Homeland
Security" (inter-agency
conflicts/illprepared/funding with
lack of oversight)
http://tr.im/pty2
DHS/CRS
The Dept of Homeland
Security Intelligence
Enterprise: Operational
Overview & Oversight
Challenges for Congress
(pdf)
http://tr.im/nObi
Dictatorships
Who will/how can we
develop a dictatorship
prevention network?
http://www.thedictat
orship.com
Digital Culture
Frontline's
“Digital_Nation”
http://www.pbs.org/
wgbh/pages/frontlin
e/digitalnation/
Digital Media
8/18/08
DIY Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles
10/27/08
http://www.danoo.c
om/new_york.php
Online community
http://www.diydrone
s.com
Do Not Call Registry
Federal Trade Commission
Do Not Call Registry
http://is.gd/hHpC
Documentary
“Torturing Democracy”
http://www.gwu.edu
/~nsarchiv/torturing
democracy/program/
Documentary: Apology of 10/02/08
an Economic Hitman
From the author of
Confessions of an
Economic Hitman
http://www.apology
ofaneconomichitman
.com/video.php
Documentary/Africa
Doc exploring why charity
to Africa over the last 5
decades has been largely
ineffective & often
harmful
http://tinyurl.com/d
h6cfj
Documentary/Cotton
“White Gold” about
Uzbekistan cotton
industry
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=3n39T
35Ia_4
Documentary/Cotton/Pest
icides
Moral Fibre : Organic
Cotton
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=qHZR
5SyA-CQ
&
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=mLDk
1bK-gDQ
Documentary/Curitiba
A Convenient Truth:
http://is.gd/HWqK
Urban Solutions from
Curitiba, Brazil (photos &
documentary)
Documentary/Jacques
Vergès/Law/Terrorism
Fascinating documentary
about lawyer Jacques
Vergès, who defended
Nazi Klaus Barbie &
numerous terrorists.
http://tr.im/k9GK
Documentary/Mercenaries
"Shadow Company - The
Mercenary Business"
http://tr.im/joqB
Documentary/subversion
Eerie 10 part YouTube
series "The New
American Century"
http://bit.ly/b5ZsA
Documentary/Trash
Movie about garbage and
its management
http://www.trashed
movie.com
Documentary/Uranium
"Woven Ways" -- Uranium
mining and its impact on
natives/the Navajo
http://is.gd/YqZm
Documentary/Weapons
Trade
“Dealing and Wheeling”
small arms trade movie.
Neglected to focus on
weapons manufacturers
http://www.dealinga
ndwheeling.com/dea
ling_wheeling_pages
/trailer.html
Documentary/Western
Shoshone Natives
Western Shoshone
Defense Project against
U.S. Gov landgrabbing
from the Western
Shoshone Natives
(appalling information)
http://www.wsdp.or
g
“small business
innovation research”
http://www.dodsbir.
net/SITIS/quick_sca
n.asp
DoD dev requests
10/27/08
&
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=JJ2N9
-n-ka0
DoJ/Weapons
"Review of the
http://www.fas.org/irp/age
Department of Justice’s ncy/doj/oig/lesslethal.pdf
Use of Less-Lethal
Weapons"
dotNYC
New content for the "dot
NYC" campaign to
establish a top level
online domain for NYC
http://is.gd/Wgfn
Video overview
http://www.theworld
.ae/videoGallery.htm
l
Excessive heat from
laptops linked to male
infertility (other things
to avoid are also listed)
http://is.gd/10Vyq
Dubai's “The World”
e-heat/infertility
7/26/08
E-Waste (China)
9/23/08
E-Waste/Guiyu
Video from Current TV
http://current.com/it
ems/76355482_toxic
_villages
(audio and photo
slideshow) Guiyu, largest
e-waste site on earth
http://is.gd/JiuE
(thanks Roberto Saviano
http://is.gd/JiuF
“see” more
http://www.earthiss
quare.com/WorldWin
d/index.php?title=M
ain_Page
Earthquake Metrics
More on "First Access to
the Megathrust
Earthquake Zone" by
NanTroSEIZE
http://is.gd/JgTT
Earthquake Metrics
NanTroSEIZE: aiming to
learn more about how &
why earthquakes &
tsunamis occur/greater
understanding of
seismogenic zone.
http://tr.im/mOIc
Earth Simulation/Data
Visualization
n/a
EarthWatch
7/28/08
Eco-Tech Innovation
Video
10/14/08
http://www.earthwat
ch.org/newsandeven
ts/presskit/earthwat
ch_fact_sheet/
Fungi Restoring Growth to
Toxic Environments and
Providing Breakthroughs
http://collectconnect.blogspot.co
m/2008/10/fascinati
ng-fungi-to-detoxsprout.html
http://www.chrismar
tenson.com/crashco
urse
Economy/Energy/Environ
ment
Edible Plants
“Purslane” has six times
more vitamin E than
spinach, seven times
more beta-carotene than
carrots, and is rich is
vitamin C, glutathione,
riboflavin, potassium,
magnesium, phosphorus,
omega-3 fatty acids, and
tryptophan.
http://tr.im/i7ht &
http://tr.im/i7jj
Education Technology
“Educating the net
generation”
http://net.educause.
edu/ir/library/pdf/pu
b7101.pdf
Election
n/a
Election Protection Wiki
10/06/08
http://www.nonprofi
tvote.org/volunteer.h
tml
Election 2008 public
oversight tool
http://www.sourcew
atch.org/index.php?t
itle=Portal:Election_
Protection_Wiki
Electoral Reform/Funding
Citizens funding elections
http://www.change.
org/ideas/view/citize
ns_funding_of_the_
nations_elections
Emergency alertmap
Disaster and Emergency
AlertMaps
http://is.gd/t1ZZ
Emergency alerts
Emergency Alerts via
RSS, email, or
GoogleEarth kml files
http://is.gd/y7bB
Emergency Services
Information/NYC
“Street Sheets” providing
emergency services
information in the form of
one & ten page handouts
for download to give to
those without housing in
NYC
http://streetsheets.r
e-configure.org
Emergency Services/NYC
Updated "Street Sheets"
for April (Hand-outs of
information on
emergency services in
NYC for those without
housing)
http://tr.im/i7rI
Emergency Support
InSTEDD (Innovative
Support to Emergencies,
Diseases and Disasters)
http://tr.im/jLNn
Emergency/Legal
Sept 10, Obama signs to http://cryptome.org/0001/
extend for another year, pn091009.htm
that America is in a
national emergency
4terrorism (since Sept
14, 2001)
Encyclopedia of Earth
5/28/08
http://www.eoearth.
org
Encyclopedic of 'Life'
n/a
http://www.eol.org
Energy/Alternative
Van Powered by Fast Food
http://veggievan.org
Energy/Alternative
New movie on fuel
solutions
http://thefuelfilm.co
m
Energy/Alternative
Algae Bio-Diesel-Powered
Car
http://tinyurl.com/cf
zsbw
http://tinyurl.com/dl
9upa
Energy/Alternative/Mobile
Solar powered phone
from Samsung (and parts
made from recycled water
bottles)
Energy/America
The U.S. Weatherization
http://fas.org/programs/en
Assistance Program
ergy/btech/policy/Weatheri
(WAP)
zation Article.pdf
The longest running and
perhaps most successful
energy efficiency program
Energy/Event
Largest energy forum of
its kind
http://www.europea
nfutureenergyforum.
com/home
Energy/US
Inter-relationships:
Canada, the largest
source of U.S. energy
imports.
http://www.docuticker.co
m/?p=26772
Energy/Water
Water sources in the NY,
NJ, and Penn region
threatened by natural gas
drilling proposals
http://waterunderatt
ack.com
http://www.ewbinternational.org
Engineers without borders 9/18/08
"..proposes a unifying
approach to monitoring,
measuring, and managing
rural environments.."
http://planetaryskin.
org
John Perkins, author of
Confessions of an
Economic Hitman
mentioned this group in
one of his talks
http://ran.org
Enviro-Security/Military
Archive of Worldwide
Emerging Environmental
Issues Affecting the U.S.
Military
http://www.aepi.arm
y.mil/rpt-weei.html
EnviroMapper
EPA's "EnviroMapper" to
identify variety of mapped
enviro-stats
http://is.gd/ynAy
Video: “greening the
desert”
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=LJ8pj
OG4pXI&feature=rel
ated
Environmental Law
Public Interest
Environmental Law
Conference at the Univ of
Oregon
http://www.pielc.org
EPA ineptitude/toxins
SAFETY OF
http://tr.im/BsXz
SHREDDED TIRES IN
PLAYGROUNDS
Enviro Monitoring
Enviro-Action
Environment
5/08/08
n/a
UNDER QUESTION
— EPA Endorsed Use
without Analyzing Toxic
Potential but Belated
Studies in Limbo
Epidemic Intel Service
Ethics + Tech
Ethics/Buying
http://www.cdc.gov/
eis/
6/12/08
Ethics + Emerging
Technologies Group, nonpartisan org focused on
the risk, ethical, & social
impact of emerging tech.
http://tr.im/juGD
http://www.ethicalco
nsumer.org
March 2009 >
Event/“Soul of the New
Machine”
Tech, gaming, human
rights, Soul of the New
Machine conference
http://tr.im/l9xZ
Event/Intelligent
Environments
Barcelona event July 2021
http://intelligentenvi
ronments.org/confer
ences/ie09
Event/translation
Open Translation Tools
Summit
http://www.aspirationtech.
org/events/opentranslation
/2009
Extremists in military
"..the military has never http://r0ca9.tk
been more tolerant of
racial extremists. Now
they are letting
everybody in.."
Farm projects
Growfood.org list of
http://www.growfood.org
sustainable farms,
projects, & org's that
invite volunteers to help
out.
Fast food
"The Truth about Fast
Foods" compiled by
Bodybuilding.com
http://www.bodybuilding.
com/fun/fastfood.htm#2
Fast Food/Corn
Excess of corn and corn
syrup in the American
fast food diet & mentions
documentary called “King
Corn”
http://news.mongab
ay.com/2008/1110corn.html
I'm not a Mars Society
member, but this looks
like a useful political tool
http://fax.marssocie
ty.org
Court rebuffs FBI
censorship of 500 pages
critical of FBI counter-
http://is.gd/yTBO
Fax Congress
FBI/counter-terrorism
8/25/08
terrorism program written
by retired agent
Federal Budget
http://www.national
priorities.org
9/06/08
http://www.federalb
udget.com
Federal Budget (America)
Federal Reserve
39 cities participating
http://www.endthefe
related to HR2755.
d.us
However, how can the
&
board of governors be
http://thomas.loc.go
abolished when they are
not federally accountable? v/cgi-
bin/query/z?c110:h2
755:
Federal Reserve Audit
Auditing the Federal
Reserve Growing in
Favor
Federal Reserve spending
Rep. Alan Grayson asks http://is.gd/1dbaz
the Fed Res Insp Gen
about the trillions of $'s
lent or spent by the Fed,
& where it went
Federal Reserve
Transparency
"Federal" Reserve
http://is.gd/10ONr
Transparency Act
inching its way closer
(reps & dems on board)
Federal
Reserve/Bloomberg
Bloomberg suing Federal
Reserve (not really a
"federal" agency). They &
gov are shrouded in
financial secrecy over
loans
http://tr.im/jiXh
Federal Reserve/fraud
"Dark Hole of
Democracy: How the
Fed Prints Money Out
of Thin Air"
http://www.alternet.org/st
ory/141373/
Federal Reserve/Law
Two court resources
claiming the "Federal"
Reserve is not a federal
agency.
1982
Federal
Reserve/Secrecy/Law
U.S. Code that protects
Federal Reserve secrecy &
the Federal Reserve
Transparency Act of 2009
http://is.gd/tNLR
Federation of American
Scientists Virtual Worlds
FAS virtual worlds
catalogue
http://vworld.fas.org
/wiki/Main_Page
Film on overcoming
schizophrenia
http://www.auditthefed.co
m
http://tr.im/jj1j
2004 http://tr.im/jj1l
Trailer1 & 2
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=dddks
UbXuVs
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=qnzIl
wLDBY4
100 people filmed
starting with NYC
http://www.100peop
le.org/videos.php
Film/Sahara
"Running the Sahara." A
film exploring human
endurance and the
Sahara, & helping support
clean water for Africa
http://is.gd/BpzZ
Films/Human rights
Human Rights Watch
International Film
Festival
http://is.gd/ZYXY
Financial Crimes
Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network (US
Dept of Treasury)
http://is.gd/BNkQ
Narration and slides of
examples of corruption in
the stockmarket
http://www.deepcap
turethemovie.com
Financial/Social Power
The strange world of
"Allen & Company."
Hollywood, Google, CIA,
Coke, & Oprah
http://is.gd/LZav
Firearms
Study of how U.S. civilian
firearms market
contributes to drugrelated violence in Mexico
http://tr.im/i97L
Flawed Law
Report: Minor Crimes,
Massive Waste: The
Terrible Toll of America’s
Broken Misdemeanor
Court.
http://is.gd/G9oF
Flawed Law
Possession of cell phone
in prison case reveals
insanity of the Texas legal
system (with a jury, no
less)
http://tr.im/nIqa
Flu manual
Flu Manual updated May
2009 (71-page .pdf)
http://is.gd/ysML
FOIA/secrecy
Regan & Bush judges rule
the White House Office of
Administration is not
subject to Freedom of
Information Act
http://tr.im/lWds
Food
Omnivore's Dilemma:
Essential book for anyone
in the industrialized world
http://tinyurl.com/a
gehst
Film Project
Financial Crimes
10/31/08
4/04/08
who eats food
Food nutrient database
Food Nutrient Database http://www.bodybuilding.
(someday we will have com/fun/nutrient.htm
a comprehensive "true
cost" database of all
foods and products)
http://www.foodpolit
ics.com
Food Politics
Food/Corporations
Movie coming June 12
called "Food, Inc"
http://is.gd/vHmZ
Food/Pollution
Top 10 worst polluted
foods
http://www.sprig.co
m/10_Most_Dangero
us_Foods
Forum/Corporatism
http://rushkoff.com/
forums/bbs/
8/10/08
Forum/Radio
“Life Incorporated” forum
on open source
democracy, alternative
currency, local action, etc.
http://rushkoff.com/
forums/bbs/
Fraud
"Operation False Charity"
sweep of fradulent nonprofits and companies
http://is.gd/CZfz
Israeli-Palestinian Project
(Beta 10/31/08)
http://g.ho.st
Free Book/Geo-Politics
Free book from ex-British
ambassador to
Uzbekistan Craig Murray
that was "chilled" (zip file,
1 meg)
http://cryptome.org/
cot-murray.zip
Free Documentaries
Large resource for free
documentaries
http://is.gd/LzUN
Free/Open Source
Free and open source
roadmap to 2020
http://www.openwor
ldobservatory.org/do
wnload/owf_roadma
p_20020.pdf
Freedom of Information
Online network of
freedom of information
advocates
http://www.freedomi
nfo.org
Freedom/Internet
Report on governments
trying to control Internet
freedoms
http://tr.im/idzH
Freeway Ricky
Ross/Media
Ricky Ross..1 of the
biggest drug dealers in
American history, his
own reality show after
prison-release
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=pMxlDMVKJ4
w
&
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=UD2ALjJ6dwY
Free “Virtual Computer”
5/30/08
Funding for
Projects/Pooling
Resources
n/a
How far can this format
be expanded?
Http://newschalleng
e.org
Funding/Contest
Future Forecast/DNI
http://www.donorsc
hoose.org
2025 forecast by Dept of
National Intel
http://www.dni.gov/
nic/PDF_2025/2025_
Global_Trends_Final
_Report.pdf
http://www.techcast
.org/Forecasts.aspx
Future forecasting/Virtual
Think Tank
Future of the Internet
“Imagining the Internet:
A History & Forecast”
http://www.elon.edu
/predictions/
Future of the Web (video) 7/31/08
The web in the next
5,000 days (Kevin Kelly)
http://www.ted.com
/index.php/talks/kev
in_kelly_on_the_nex
t_5_000_days_of_th
e_web.html
Future war/video
While billions of people http://dsc.discovery.com/v
are working each day to ideos/2057-futuresurvive, future warfare soldier.html
technology is in
development ("hope")
G20/YouTube
G20 London Summit's
YouTube channel
http://tr.im/icLY
Game Archive
Games for Change game
archive
http://is.gd/JaC0
http://www.molleind
ustria.org/freecultur
egame-eng
Game/Free Culture
Gaming
E-republik
http://www.erepubli
k.com/en
Gaming
Javascript related
http://games.slashd
ot.org/article.pl?sid=
08/12/17/0530221
Gaming/3-d
Being recognized in a
mainstream zine
http://www.esquire.
com/archive/feature
s/best-andbrightest2008/0/10/
Gaming/Behavior Studies
"Mass Mind" Studies
Using Everquest Data
Handout from Sony
(online gamers as guinea-
http://tinyurl.com/b
auquy
pigs?)
Gaming/CIA
CIA/"In-Q-Tel" funded
(and other funding) Iraq
video game
http://tr.im/iT63
&
good comments here
http://tr.im/iT75
http://www.netforno
nprofits.org/2009/01
/15/gaming-andfundraising-redux/
Gaming/Fundraising
Gaming/Grid Computing
Flash game on problemsolving using grid
computing (choose: think
tank/grid master/offline
activities)
http://tr.im/ihcw
Geo-Political
Simulation
Play a world leader and
make decisions in the
position of the Obama
administration and other
government
administrations. New
game comes out Jan.20
http://tinyurl.com/5
u8fqr
&
http://www.geopoliticalsimulator.com
http://www.locationi
ntelligence.net/index
.php
GeoData/Intel
GEOINT
"GEOINT Analysis of
Terrorism in Afghanistan"
http://tinyurl.com/cs
kp6k
Geospatial
Exciting development out
of Penn State, "Geospatial
Revolution Project"
http://is.gd/vRgJ
http://highearthorbit
.com
Geospatial Web
http://tinyurl.com/d
xqljt
GIS/Honolulu
Honolulu
GIS/"revolutionizing the
decision-making process"
Global
"Earth Report" YouTube
playlist from "TVE"
Global health
Grand Challenges in
Global Health (Gates
Foundation)
http://is.gd/xjGR
Develop this format
further
http://www.avaaz.or
g/en/report_back_1
“..seeks to build a critical
mass of people and
organizations with
systems thinking skills,
by promoting systems
literacy and dynamic
modeling tools in the
http://www.millenni
uminstitute.net/proj
ects/index.html
Global Issue
Campaigns/Conflict Res
Global strategies
4/30/08
public policy realm, civil
society, private sector,
and academic institutions
in the developing and
industrialized world. “
Global Strategies
Video of future by Jerome
Glenn
http://tinyurl.com/6
5yfmq
Global videos
Online documentaries
on world issues from
"Journeyman" (paid
subscription service)
http://journeyman.booserv
er.com
Global Videos
"Earth Stock Films"
Global Viral Forecasting
"Global Viral Forecasting
Initiative" (because waitand-respond approaches
are not sufficient)
http://gvfi.org
http://www.globalric
hlist.com
Global Wealth
GM crop/data
Data on Farmers
http://www.ers.usda.gov/
Adoption of Genetically Data/BiotechCrops/
Engineered Crops in the
U.S. since 1996
Goldman
Sachs/Censorship
Banking versus blogging:
Goldman Sachs hires law
firm to shut blogger's site
goldmansachs666.com
http://tr.im/iEl5
Google Gadgets
Gadgets for websites
http://www.google.c
om/ig/directory?syn
d=open&source=ggh
p
51 things not found on
google maps
http://www.itsecurit
y.com/features/51things-not-ongoogle-maps071508/
Google Maps Censored
7/16/08
Google Public Interest
10/30/08
Google Public Policy
Google's “Knol”
Google/Privacy
http://www.google.c
om/policyfellowship/i
ndex.html
Google public policy blog
http://googlepublicp
olicy.blogspot.com
http://knol.google.c
om
7/29/08
Google privacy concern.
Privacy group calling on
Fed Trade Commission to
http://tr.im/hNNU
investigate
GoogleEarth on Iphone
http://blog.wired.co
m/gadgets/2008/10/
google-earth-co.html
10/27/08
Googlezon's Evolving
Personal Information
Construct (EPIC)
Futuristic movie
http://www.albinobl
acksheep.com/flash/
epic
Googlization/Influence
Excessive Google
influence in the Obama
admin? & their predatory
patents
http://is.gd/LXvq
Gov contractors
Top 100 government
contractors for 2009
http://is.gd/A8sT
Gov Dox
100's of interesting Fed
Gov documents obtained
under the Freedom of
Information Act.
http://www.governm
entattic.org
Gov malfeasance
Aside from bailouts, don't
forget the 2.3 TRILLION
DOLLARS declared
September 10, 2001 as
untraceable by Donald
Rumsfeld
http://tinyurl.com/4
ausrb
Gov Polls on Cyber Issues
Polls by Federal Computer
Weekly on cybersecurity
and using the web for
government collab with
the public
http://www.fcw.com
/polls/?s=dailyNL_1
2_08#
Gov Secrecy
Government Keeping Its
.Gov Domain Names
Secret
http://tinyurl.com/d
gsjrr
Public commenting
permissible
http://publicmarkup.
org/bill/transparency
-government-act2008/
Gov transparency/Tech
“Apps for America” where
prizes go to developers
who can use data from
Sunlight and our partners
that makes Congress
more accountable,
interactive and
transparent.
http://sunlightlabs.c
om/appsforamerica/
Gov/Investigation
The Daily Watchdog by
the Center for Public
Integrity
http://www.publicint
egrity.org/blog/
Gov/Tech
US gov/State Dept
awarding grants to
increase social
networking in Middle
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=12592
Gov Transparency
5/10/08
& predatory patents
http://www.oss.net/
GOOGLE
East & North Africa
“..to change how
government functions by
actually going inside it
and making direct change
happen.”
http://www.personal
democracy.com/tech
pres/google_for_gov
ernment
Government/Broken Gov
New report on failures
since year 2000 by
PublicIntegrity.org
http://www.publicint
egrity.org/investigati
ons/broken_govern
ment/pages/by_the_
numbers
Government/Documents
Offers a hand-picked
selection of resources,
reports and publications
from government
agencies, NGOs, think
tanks and other public
interest organizations.
http://www.docutick
er.com
Government
Improvement
Government/Firing
9/29/08
http://www.kickthe
mallout.com/article.
php/StoryPink_Slip_MailIn_Campaign
8/02/08
http://citizensbriefin
gbook.change.gov
Government/Internet
GPS online
"find the latitude &
longitude of any US
address - for free"
http://geocoder.us
Grass-Fed Food
Major source on grass-fed
food and facts
http://eatwild.com
Green Depot Building
Supplies
http://www.greende
pot.com
7/08/08
Grid
American grid security,
foreign espionage, need
for upgrades, yet smarter
grids become more
hackable
http://tr.im/iJ54
Grid Computing
"..mission is to create the
world's largest public
computing grid to tackle
projects that benefit
humanity."
http://www.worldco
mmunitygrid.org
mp3's of the conference
http://www.thelasth
ope.org/talks.html
This "Hacking Education"
page has some good
follow-up replies at the
lower part of the page
http://tinyurl.com/9f
u9fk
Hackers on Planet Earth
Hacking Education
8/11/08
Handheld Learning
Conference
Was October 13-15 with
sponsors Disney,
Nintendo, Tmobile, and
more (very Euro-centric)
http://www.handhel
dlearning2008.com
Harpers Index/InfoResource
Searchable Harpers.org
index (loaded with
interesting pieces of info)
http://harpers.org/in
dex/
Hazard Alerts
"ProMedMail" Global
electronic reporting
system for outbreaks of
emerging infectious
diseases & toxins
http://is.gd/uzwR
Hazard awareness
"Reducing disaster risk
through hazard
awareness...inTERRAgate
aims to become the most
extensive information
network available on
natural hazards.”
http://interragate.inf
o
Health Alerts/Mapping
Global Disease Alert Map
from Healthmap in 5
languages (reposted from
http://is.gd/uBnM
Health Intelligence
Global Public Health
Intelligence Network
(GPHIN)
http://tr.im/jOWH
Healthcare/Defects
Many health care facilities
not prepared to protect
healthcare workers from
pandemic influenza
(thanks resourceshelf)
http://tr.im/jo8k
Hispanic Blogosphere
"State of the Hispanic
Blogosphere Report 2009"
http://is.gd/HVXu
History/Images
Life magazine + Google
archive historic photos
http://images.googl
e.com/hosted/life
History/newspaper
"Chronicling America" - http://chroniclingamerica.l
enhancing access to
oc.gov
America's historic
newspapers (1 million
pages & info from
1690-present)
History/Timelines
Massive resource of
13,187 events in time line
form
http://linkbomb.reconfigure.org)
Holographic TV
10/06/08
http://www.historyc
ommons.org/timelin
es.jsp
http://www.cnn.com
/2008/TECH/science
/10/06/holographic.t
elevision/index.html
Homeland Security/Data
Viz
Dept of Homeland
Security "Earth"
(geospatial mapping and
visualization program)
http://tinyurl.com/bt
tjvl
Homeland
Security/Videos
Homeland Security
Reality Show
http://abc.go.com/p
rimetime/homelands
ecurity/
Honduras coup
“Habla Honduras”
related to the supposed
coup
http://19uy5.tk
Hospital comparisons
Compare hospitals ("find
how well hospitals care
for patients w/certain
medical conditions or
surgical procedures")
http://tr.im/kX7T
http://www.youtube.
com/househub
House and
Senate/YouTube
http://www.youtube.
com/senatehub
http://www.containe
rcity.com
Housing Alternatives
Human Body/3D
3D animations, requires
Shockwave progam
http://www.a3bs.co
m/3d_models.html
Human dev reports
"Human Development"
reports
http://hdr.undp.org/
en/reports/
Immersive
interfaces/podcast
Science magazine's
podcast on “Immersive
Interfaces for
Engagement and
Learning”
http://tinyurl.com/8
p3wco
Immersive Media
*note: Imagine
combining this with the
geo-political-simulator
video game in a massive
multi-player environment
http://www.geodom
e.info
Immersive Media
http://www.vortexim
mersion.com
6/03/08
In-Q-Tel
CIA arm investing in tree
surveillance/measuring
growth/forest inventory
http://tr.im/kYTi
Incident Tracking
"Worldwide Incidents
Tracking System"
http://is.gd/KRxk
Incident/Journalism
The U.S. Gov prohibited
an overflight by Air
France because journalist
Calvo Ospina was on
http://tr.im/mKxh
board
India/e-waste
India e-waste increasing
10% a year claims India's
Department of Scientific
and Industrial Research
http://is.gd/BVG1
India/Vote Monitoring
citizen-driven election
monitoring thru SMS,
email and Web-based
reports on voting
irregularities in India
http://is.gd/u3a7
Indonesia
Slideshow of bombing
in Indonesia
http://tr.im/Bs4t
Infections/Surgery
See how well your
hospital, state & nation
are performing on 3 key
practices that help
prevent infections during
surgery
http://tr.im/k2hn
Info Visualization
http://prefuse.org
9/10/08
Info-graphic/Oil Seepage
Illustration of the cycle of
natural oil seepage in the
ocean
http://is.gd/Bq9G
info-graphics
40 useful info-graphics
http://tr.im/l3UG
Info-graphics/Ocean
Cables
Operations involved in
fixing ocean situated
cables that connect the
Internet (info-graphics
too)
http://is.gd/ngKS
Info-map/stimulus
Economic stimulus map
for transportation
infrastructure by county
http://tr.im/lXqW
Info-map/War Death
Memorial day's "Map the
Fallen" (GoogleEarth) of
soldiers who have lost
their lives in Iraq &
Afghanistan
http://is.gd/CZ96
Info-mapping
Info-map/info-graphic
(1,560) resources
http://is.gd/zccM &
http://is.gd/zccN
Info-mapping/criminal
justice
Using computer mapping
to better understand,
evaluate, & communicate
criminal justice & other
social policy info
http://is.gd/A0tA
Info-mapping/Financial
"Mapping Geographic
Impact of the Troubled
Asset Relief Program
(TARP)"
http://is.gd/z9Sk
Infographic/bankruptcies
Largest Bankruptcies in http://is.gd/YCuC
History
Infographics/Data Viz
Infographics from Good
Magazine's Transparency
http://is.gd/xjKC
series
Information Visualization
9/18/08
Slashdot headlines
Visualized
http://www.roomfor
milk.com
Information Warfare
10/30/08
“tracking cyber power”
http://www.infowarmonitor.net
Sensors to diagnose
structural integrity of
bridges
http://tr.im/jnKO
“earn money while
solving some of the
toughest problems facing
the world today”?
http://www.innocent
ive.com/
Great resource, but
expensive
http://www.intellige
nceonline.com
Dept of Homeland
Security hired RAND for
this report “Reorganizing
Domestic Intelligence”
http://www.rand.org
/pubs/monographs/
MG767/
Infrastructure Testing
Innocentive
8/17/08
Intelligence (pay)
Intelligence/RAND
10/28/08
Intentional Communities
8/14/08
http://www.ic.org
Inter-agency coordinating
From Iraq &
Afghanistan to African
villages, countless
projects have gone to
waste/limited
interagency
coordination
http://is.gd/15UtW
International News
Outlets
U.S. Gov directory of
international news outlets
http://is.gd/tOSl
“Re-defining the public
domain”
http://www.archive.
org/details/malamud
_berkeley_2007_lect
ure
Test/monitor your
internet connection
measurements
http://measurementl
ab.net
Internet + Gov
Convergence (video)
5/10/08
Internet Connection
Internet
Filtering/Surveillance
10/30/08
“..identify and document
Internet filtering and
surveillance, and to
promote and inform wider
public dialogs about such
practices.”
http://opennet.net
Internet Gaming
3/21/08
The internet as a massive
multiplayer game
http://www.gamelay
ers.com
"Committed to Wiping
Out Internet Scams &
Fraud"
http://www.antiphis
hing.org
Internet Scams/Fraud
Internet University
First global, tuition-free
Internet university, a
nonprofit venture named
the University of the
People
http://www.iht.com/
articles/2009/01/25/
technology/universit
y.4-415520.php
Internet Watch
Foundation
Co-founded by the
European Union
http://www.iwf.org.u
k
2 parts
http://collectconnect.blogspot.co
m/2008/09/newmodel-for-poor-andbeautiful.html
9-11/Investigation
9-11 Ideas for Further
Public Investigation
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=10665
9-11/Investigation
A 3 year independent
investigation into the
attack on the Pentagon
on 09/11/01 by the
"Citizen Investigation
Team"
http://citizeninvestigationt
eam.com
Useful info from
investigation
professionals
http://pallorium.com
/PallTech.html
Interview/New Nepal
Prime Minister
Investigation
Professionals
10/26/08
FEB 2009
& shop -
http://www.pimall.c
om/nais
Investigation/Crack
Cocaine
Ghost from the past.
Gary Webb's
investigation & book
"Dark Alliance: The
CIA, the Contras, and
the Crack Cocaine
Explosion"
Iran/photos
Iran's presidential
http://is.gd/11la3
election in photos from &
http://is.gd/12HGX
Boston.com's The Big
Picture & protest photos &
http://is.gd/1auKB
from Cryptome.org
Iraq
Tragic Iraq totals
Iraq Media
Iraq Media Project &
their YouTube playlist
Iraq War
10/20/08
http://www.narconews.co
m/darkalliance/drugs/start
.htm
http://www.justforei
gnpolicy.org/iraq/cou
nterexplanation.html
http://threetrilliondo
llarwar.org
Iraq/Doc
"Iraq: Agony Of A
http://www.journeyman.tv
Nation." Ultimate failed /?lid=57541
state of death squads in
police uniforms, private
militias, abductions, &
terror
Iraq/Elections
Iraq Elections Guide 2009
Iraq/Money
Nearly $20B of Iraqi
http://tr.im/BssI
reconstruction money, &
no-one can account for
where it all went.
Fraud/incompetence/cor
ruption
http://tinyurl.com/b
u7gwk
http://www.whatwec
ouldhavedonewithth
emoney.com
Iraq/Money Spent
Iraqi Deaths
Iraqi children & noncombatant deaths 20032008 from the New
England Journal of
Medicine (resourceshelf)
http://tr.im/joAM
Issues/Debate Forum
“Better decisions through
collective intelligence.”
Http://deepdebate.o
rg
infoDev works to promote
better understanding and
effective use of
information and
communication
technologies (ICTs) as
tools of poverty reduction
and broad-based,
sustainable development.
http://www.infodev.
org/en/index.html
James
Nachtwey/documentary
"War Photographer"
http://www.warphotographer.com
James
Nachtwey/Photography
Incredible person,
powerful photography on
international issues
http://www.jamesna
chtwey.com
James Nachtwey/video
War/conflict photographer
James Nachtwey at "TED"
(how photographers can
reveal agendas not
spoken)
http://tr.im/ii1X
Japanese Earth Simulator
Repost: Japanese Earth
Simulator
http://www.jamstec.
go.jp/e
Audio interviews
http://www.altruists.
IT/Poverty Reduction
10/28/08
(thanks @CityofSkies)
John Taylor Gatto
7/28/08
org/downloads/searc
h/?restype=0&rescat
egory=0&resauthors
=John+Taylor+Gatto
&restitle=Enter+Key
word
John Taylor Gatto
7/28/08
Journal of 911 Studies
7/10/08
Journalism
Journalism/Propaganda
8/29/08
Junk Mail
Videos of Ex-NYC teacher
of 30 yrs against
institutional compulsory
education
http://youtube.com/
results?search_quer
y=john+taylor+gatt
o&search_type=&aq
=f
http://journalof911s
tudies.com
"PressThink, Ghost of
Democracy in the
Machine"
http://tr.im/i2T5
4 part YouTube series
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=cuq7O1RqQQ
Reducing the insane
amount of junk mail we
get is seen as a 'threat'
and “bad public policy” by
some people
http://www.sourcew
atch.org/index.php?t
itle=Mail_Moves_Am
erica
&
http://mailmovesam
erica.org
&
http://www.sourcew
atch.org/index.php?t
itle=IP_Moves_the_
Mail
http://livesconnecte
d.com
Katrina Stories
9/16/08
Katrina/New Orleans
9/22/08
Documentary
http://troublethewat
erfilm.com
Korean Mobile Tech
10/31/08
Examples of South
Korean navigation &
mobile advancements
http://www.thinkwar
e.co.kr/Eng/products
/about_mobile_s.asp
(South Korea of course)
http://www.inavi.co
m/_Menu/Customer/
upgrade_info.asp
(Korean navigation)
http://tinyurl.com/5
grep6 (screenshots)
L.A. Event
L.A. event for November
2009 (new world-wide
partnership of citizens,
businesses and
organizations)
http://www.thegloba
lsummit.org
Landmines/Video
"Disarm,"documentary on
landmines. Despite a
global ban, landmines
continue to claim victims
http://tinyurl.com/a
zq2gk
Landmines/Weapons
Continued US Progress
in Clearing Landmines
and Destroying
Conventional Weapons
http://www.docuticker.co
m/?p=26775
Law (pro bono)
International Senior
Lawyers Project (pro
bono)
http://is.gd/FPr3
Law/Audio
Pilot project to make
audio recordings of
courtroom proceedings
publicly available online
(resourceshelf)
http://tr.im/j9TD
http://www.askyourl
awmaker.org
Law/Citizen influence
Vermont has the only
dissenting higher edu
school & the Dept of
Defense, Education,
Labor, and Health &
Human Services will not
fund any school that
prohibits military
recruiters on campus
http://cryptome.info
/0001/dod020209.ht
m
Law/Mobile/Prison
Bill proposed for cell
phone jamming in
Maryland prisons
http://is.gd/CgU5
Law/rss feeds
"Global Legal Monitor
Adds More than 300
RSS Feeds"
http://80z1s.tk
Law/Shell Oil/Murder
Shell Oil/Royal Dutch
Shell in $15.5m
settlement over Nigerian
murders
http://is.gd/VfQh
Law/SMS
"Lawmakers"
http://is.gd/16u2G
questioning over-priced
text messaging
Law/Dissent
&
http://tinyurl.com/c
6cxlp
Law/terrorists
FBI press release/brief
on "Prosecuting and
Detaining Terror
Suspects in the U.S.
Criminal Justice
System"
http://is.gd/YX5A
Law/tobacco
Senate passes bill that
puts tobacco industry
under the regulation of
the Food and Drug
Administration
http://is.gd/10eTv
Lawsuit/Corporate Crime
Lawsuit: "Canadian
Mining Firm Financed
Violence in Ecuador"
http://tr.im/i4sv
Lawsuit/Corporate Crime
Chiquita Seeks Dismissal
of $7.86 Billion Lawsuit
Filed by Colombian
Families
http://tinyurl.com/d
8vz4o
LCD Tech (boats)
Boats in Shanghai with
large LCD billboardscreens
http://chinain12fram
es.posterous.com/hu
angpu-river-lcdboats
Leadership/Collective
Intel
Former Bogota mayor
Antanas Mockus & the art
of developing collective
leadership thru
knowledge, art, humor,
creativity
http://tr.im/i9FV
Learning
“Open-ended learning”
http://tinyurl.com/c
pgv6z
Learning/Media
International Journal of
Learning and Media
http://ijlm.net
Learning/Mobile
Digital Nomads & the
Emergence of Open
Mobile Learning
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=10392
&
http://tr.im/BsyO (2004)
Legislation
Require that nonemergency legislation and
conference reports be
posted on the Internet for
72 hours before debate
begins
http://tr.im/i8Zq
Lessons of Savings &
Loan Crisis
"..look intensively,
without the interference
of politics."
http://tr.im/iLak
Library of
Congress/YouTube
Library of Congress
YouTube page
http://is.gd/rdPo
Lighting/LED/Solar
Organization utilizing
renewable energy & LEDs
http://is.gd/uSmr
for affordable, & safe
illumination to those
without power for lighting
LINK-LIBRARY
Loaded with amazing
links from independent
data visualization &
collaboration projects to
DARPA related projects
Http://link-bomb.reconfigure.org
Local Grown Foods
Video called "Homegrown
Revolution" on successful
home grown foods
http://tinyurl.com/4
mt97y
Locks/lock-picking
The growing issue of
http://tr.im/BsaW
the insecurity of locks
and the availability of
lockpicking information
Mailbox location
Mailbox locator: find a
USPS mailbox in your
area (uncertain how
updated this will be)
http://www.payphoneproject.com/mailboxes/
Malaria/Africa
"Malaria free zone"
videos/reports from the
Free Africa Foundation
http://tinyurl.com/b
kwdsa
Malnutrition food
Emergency food
http://en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/Plumpy%27n
ut
Map
Kansas State Team has
Mapped the “Seven
Deadly Sins” of
America
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=9051
Map
"The most complete
http://6ohdw.tk
terrain map of the
Earth's surface has been
published."
Map
"Open Green Map"
http://is.gd/JkjG
Map/bicyclist hazards
Report thefts, crashes,
and hazards related to
bicycling
http://www.bikewise.org
Map/Cancer/2002
Map and graphics (.pdf)
of types of cancer in
regions throughout the
world (unfortunately,
stats are from 2002)
http://tr.im/mSgS
Map/Coal plants
List (and maps) of coal
plants in the United
States
http://yen75.tk
Map/district search
U.S. Congressional
http://is.gd/10OhV
district map & search
(GovTrack.us)
Map/language
Interactive map of
languages spoken
throughout America
http://www.mla.org/censu
s_map
Map/Perspective
New way to "see the
world" through this
"Hobo-Dyer Equal Area
Projection" map
http://www.odt.org/
Pictures/sideb.jpg
Map/real-estate
Mapping resource for
value of homes/homes for
sale
http://is.gd/E3HD
Map/WTO
World Trade Org
Interactive Map on
disputes btwn WTO
members
http://is.gd/10f5N
Mapping
International map making
and sharing of places
http://www.mapme.
com/maps/map_listi
ng
http://mapufacture.c
om
Mapping
Mapping
6/14/08
Mix & mash, British
region-based
http://www.maptube
.org
Mapping
6/14/08
Mapping memories of
NYC (needs work but
useful format)
http://www.cityofme
mory.org
Mapping + Gaming
6/11/08
http://news.cnet.co
m/8301-10784_399641127.html?tag=cnetfd.
mt
http://www.panoram
io.com
Mapping Panoramic views 5/28/08
Impressed with the vision
in Baltimore pertaining to
the importance of
mapping
http://baltimore.org/
maps/
Mapping/NYC
Reporting, photographing,
mapping NYC gov
workers who park illegally
http://nyc.uncivilser
vants.org
Mapping/Soil
Mapping Earth's Soil
Moisture (4/28/08) NASA
satellite mission for
improving
forecasts/predictions
http://tr.im/iheM
Maps
“Opportunity mapping” http://tr.im/BrEh
Mapping/City Vision
4/13/08
Maps
“Human rights maps”
Maps
More reasons for
mapping from The
Economist. Interest
groups using infomapping to campaign
for change.
Maps/alt energy
Maps converging flex
fuel vehicles, Clean
Cities coalitions, alt
fueling stations, fuel
production facilities, &
more
http://tr.im/o7Oa
Marine
Biology/Degradation
"First-Ever Global Report
on Shellfish Finds 85% of
World’s Oyster Reefs
Have Vanished"
http://is.gd/CZpT
http://filipspagnoli.wordpr
ess.com/tag/human-rightsmaps/
http://martykaiser.c
om
Marty Kaiser
Mashup tracking
http://mashmaker.in
tel.com
Mass Collaboration
film project about the
power of mass
collaboration, government
and the internet
http://usnowfilm.co
m
Media + Politics
“Political Journalism
http://www.phibetaiota.net
Incest Chart”=media
/?p=10980
persons in connection
through bloodline or
marriage to
politicians/politicallyconnected persons. An
example beyond politics
is the listing of the wife
of Alan Greenspan
(Adrea Mitchell), as
working for NBC
Media NYC
"Media NYC 2020"
(still not developed)
Medical event
Medical event by the TED
network
Medical/Biology
Three interesting medical
& biology resources
Mashups
n/a
http://www.nycmedia2020
.com
http://www.tedmed.
com/what
http://is.gd/u2SH
http://is.gd/u2SJ
http://is.gd/u2SK
http://clinicaltrials.g
ov
Medical/trials
Mercury/Poison
Combatting Mecury
Contamination Worldwide
http://www.zeromer
cury.org
&
http://www.cleangol
d.com
Mexico/Photojournalism
photo intensive "war in
Mexico" related to drugs
& weapons traffic
Micro-loans
10/28/08
Micro-Manufacturing
Prototype
10/28/08
http://tr.im/hNuf
http://www.kiva.org
“replicating rapid prototyper”
http://reprap.org/bi
n/view/Main/WebHo
me
Micro-Nutrients
Recent report on micronutrients as global
priority
http://www.copenha
genconsensus.com
Micro-Tech
“..wireless machines the
size of dust particles can
grab and manipulate tiny
objects..”
http://news.national
geographic.com/new
s/2009/01/090126microgripperssurgery.html?source
=rss
Middle east elections
"Middle East Elections
2009: Lebanon, Iran,
Afghanistan, and Iraq"
(pdf)
http://is.gd/TqNx
Mike Levine/NYPD
Mike Levine on
WBAI now online live
http://is.gd/LMtU
(5pm EST on Mondays)
discussed the book,
"Securing the City")
Mike Mullen/Twitter/JCS
Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Mike
Mullen uses Twitter?
http://twitter.com/th
ejointstaff
Military health
"Military Health
System’s Social Media
Hub"
http://bit.ly/SUvQP
Military News/videos clips
Military TV
channels/Pentagon video
reports "DoDvClips.mil"
http://tr.im/jo7z
Mines (explosives)
E-MINE: Electronic Mine
Information Network
http://www.mineacti
on.org
Missing Dox
Many historical
http://tr.im/Bo53
documents missing from
U.S. National Archives
Mobile
Layering smartphone
screen interfaces with
behind-the-scenes
reality
http://www.nytimes.com/2
009/07/12/business/12prot
o.html?_r=1
Mobile
There is no
comprehensive database
of mobile applications for
social development
available. But one is
starting.
http://tinyurl.com/bl
o9b6
Mobile
Kenya's mobile phone
revolution video part 2
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=BRjpH
Unxaq8&feature=rel
ated
Mobile
8/18/08
Kenya's mobile phone
revolution video part 1
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=xQTS
8Hel1vk&feature=rel
ated
Mobile + Micro-Finance
10/25/08
New ingredients to
improve quality of life in
India
http://www.technolo
gyreview.com/busin
ess/21533/
“free mobile answers”
http://www.chacha.c
om
$25,000
http://www.callingall
innovators.com
Mobile Data Assoc.
The Mobile Data
Association (MDA) is the
not-for-profit industry
association dedicated to
represent and promote all
mobile data centric
businesses
http://www.themda.
org
Mobile Data-gatheirng
Free and open source
http://www.datadyn
e.org/?q=episurveyo
r/home
Mobile Data-gathering
Nokia based
http://www.nokia.co
m/A41267033
Nokia seems to 'get it'
and has some interesting
recent developments to
keep track of
http://www.nseries.c
om/index.html#l=ca
mpaigns,n82,urbanis
tadiaries,intro
Mobile learning from
"iTunes university"
http://tinyurl.com/8
z562p
Mobile Answers
Mobile Contest/Nokia
Mobile Knowledge/Mobile
Story-Telling
Mobile learning
10/26/08
3/31/08
Mobile Learning
n/a
Mobile tech/Int Dev
Mobile World Congress
10/26/08
Tracking developments in
“mobile
learning”/collecting the
examples
http://tr.im/i8TE
Top 15 mobile device
projects from a
competition to help
international development
http://www.netsquar
ed.org/usaid/top15
Supposedly the world's
largest mobile event
http://www.mobilew
orldcongress.com/ov
erview.shtml
http://www.technolo
gyreview.com/blog/e
ditors/22198/
Mobile/“Augmented
Reality”
&
http://www.mobilizy.
com/wikitude.php
Mobile/Africa
Internet to SMS,
Learning Circles
Developing in Zambia,
Ghana, South-Africa,
Zimbabwe, Canada,
Romania and the
Netherlands
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=8483
Mobile/Africa
Zimbabwe-based
"freedom fone" public info
service
http://newschalleng
e.org/freedom_fone
Mobile/anti-censorship
$10,000 Challenge for http://tr.im/BnR4
Unblockable,
Anonymous, Encrypted
Mobile Internet Access
http://www.phoneja
mmer.com/home.ph
p
Mobile/Anti-Mobile
Mobile/bar code
Using mobile software +
a mobile camera phone,
the ability to retrieve
product information is
here
http://camclic.com
Mobile/China/TV
300,000 Beijing
residents to access
National Library
through TV
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=11824
Mobile/Data
mobile data products to
serve public health and
international development
http://www.datadyn
e.org
“Mobility Vision
Integration Project”
http://www.mobility
Mobile/Gaming/Social
Issues
10/28/08
Mobile/geospatial
Mobile/Google/Android
(Flash card game on
major issues)
vip.com/
Location-based tech
conference
http://www.hereconf
erence.com
http://code.google.c
om/android/adc_gall
ery/
10/14/08
Mobile/Healthcare
Reuse of mobile phones
for healthcare workers in
Africa
http://is.gd/BObC
Mobile/Human Rights
UC Berkeley Human
Rights Center Mobile
Challenge (using mobile
tech in defense of human
rights)
http://netsquared.or
g/hrc-ucb
Mobile/Impairments
Mobile Tech for
Visually/Hearing
Impaired + An SMS
Translation Idea We
Encourage Someone to
Implement
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=11619
Mobile/Libraries
Search libraries via
mobile device interface
http://mobileworldca
t.org
http://worldcat.boop
sie.com/home/world
cat/
http://www.boopsie.
com/home/worldcat.
wmv
Mobile/Linux
Large list of devices
http://www.linuxdev
ices.com/articles/AT
9423084269.html
Mobile/marijuana
Medical marijuana
locator app for iPhone
http://tr.im/Bs76
Mobile/News
Future of "phone-news"
http://tinyurl.com/c
g9ccd
Mobile/NGO-use
“Wireless Technology for
Social Change:Trends in
Mobile Use by NGOs”
http://mobileactive.
org/files/MobilizingS
ocialChange_full.pdf
Mobile/Open Source
Open source development
tool for building fast, easy
mobile applications with
JavaScript
http://phonegap.co
m
Preliminary report on
http://www.fas.org/i
Mobile/OSINT
10/27/08
mobile tech related to
enemy combatants
rp/eprint/mobile.pdf
Mobile/Pakistan
Jokes, SMS, emails,
slander, & the Pakistan
president
http://tr.im/Bs7R
Mobile/Power
Money, Power,
Freedom, In-formation
at Stake In Our Mobile
World
http://www.phibetaiota.net
/?p=12101
Mobile/Task Assigning
Global task assigning thru
mobile
http://is.gd/tBRp
http://traffic.berkele
y.edu
Mobile/Traffic
&
http://traffic.berkele
y.edu/lectures.html
Mock
Facebook/surveillance
Example of excessive
amount of data known
about people
http://www.stateboo
k.co.uk/index.html
Modern Slavery/Atrocities
Addressing modern
slavery & mass atrocities
http://www.humanit
yunited.org
Moldova/Twitter/Facebook
1,000's protest Moldova
government, organize
using Twitter & Facebook
http://tr.im/iQRt
Money-Politics
Connections
http://maplight.org
5/10/08
Money/Language
Seeing the connections
between money, power,
panic, and rhetoric
http://tr.im/i3El
Moringa Tree
Fast growing plant/tree to
possibly provide povertystricken areas with
needed nutrients
http://www.moringa
news.org
http://www.treesforli
fe.org/our-work/ourinitiatives/moringa
(older info)
http://www.greenseeds.com/moringa_
tree.html
Movie
9/22/08
Movie
9/04/08
Movie/Food
Documentary about the
effects of producing
“stuff”
http://storyofstuff.co
m
http://www.secrecyfi
lm.com
“Food, Inc.” out in June,
2009
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=5eKYy
D14d_0
Movie/Food
“Future of Food”
documentary trailer
http://www.thefutur
eoffood.com/trailer.h
tm
Movie/Obama
Controversial, hard to
believe, (somewhat
paranoid) but
interesting/provoking
video on prez Obama
misleading the nation
http://tr.im/hZj3
“Blue Gold: World Water
Wars”
http://mouthtosourc
e.net/rivers/?s=blue
+gold&x=0&y=0
Movie/Water
10/06/08
Music culture/business
Doc "Before the Music http://tr.im/Bs4Y
Dies," on Music Culture
& the Regression of the
Music Business.
Superficiality vs. Depth
& Quality
MySpace.com/Sex
Offenders
MySpace.com lax on their
1,000's of convicted sex
offenders
http://tr.im/i4ny
Nanotech/concerns
Macro Concerns in a
Nano World
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CMJ9kO3plu8
Naples/Trans-national
crime
Extraordinary book
entitled Gomorrah by
Roberto Saviano and
movie related to
organized crime in
Naples, Italy as well as
trans-national crime
book
and
Narcotics
Dept. of State 2009
International Narcotics
Control Strategy Report
(INCSR)
http://is.gd/BzpB
NASA/photos
"Best" NASA satellite
photos from last 50 yrs
http://tr.im/kLBU
Nat Gas
New Report Finds
http://www.docuticker.co
Unprecedented Amount m/?p=26522
of Natural Gas Supply
in the U.S.
Natives/libraries
Over $1.2m in grants
http://is.gd/10Ql1
given to these groups in
support of Native
American Library
Services
Need-Matching
"needs matching system"
http://tr.im/irlb
movie
http://tr.im/irll
http://tr.im/i16F
Networking Map
Map of possible
networking connections
for NGO's
http://is.gd/E4QG
New Orleans
10-Minute Video
Briefing on New
Orleans Recovery
http://www.gnocdc.org/Ne
wOrleansIndex/video.htm
l
New Orleans
New Orleans Master Plan
Online open for
commenting
http://nolamasterpla
n.com
New Orleans Recovery
Ten Minute Video Briefing
on New Orleans' Recovery
(Feb.23)
http://www.gnocdc.
org
News Map
Mapping of News
http://www.informa
pping.com
News network
Odd meeting at
Rockefeller Estate on
"Creating the new
Investigative News
Network"
http://gdthe.tk
News Timeline
Google News timeline
needs alot of work, but
interesting start
http://newstimeline.
googlelabs.com
News/Nationwide
Directory
Large resource for
newspapers for each
state in America
http://www.newsvoy
ager.com/voyager.cf
m
Nigeria censorship
The not-so-covert covert http://burvt.tk
operation to stop
websites and bloggers
from influencing public
opinion in Nigeria.
http://www.thisisnoll
ywood.com
Nigeria/Movies
NightWatch Archive
OSINT resource
archives for
“NightWatch”
http://www.afcea.org/miss
ion/intel/nightwatch.asp
Nightwatch Newsletter
Reposting – good free
intelligence resource
called “Nightwatch”
http://afcea.org/mis
sion/intel/resource.a
sp#nw
Nokia Symbian Mobile OS
Video
http://www.symbian
.com/symbianos/os_
lbs.html
NSA/audio
Audio book,
The Shadow http://is.gd/YwtG
Factory, by James
Bamford, the foremost
expert on National
Security Agency
NSA/kids
Amusing kids page from
the National Security
Agency
https://www.nsa.gov
/kids
NSA/UK/wiretapping
"Secret Power," Nicky
Hager's groundbreaking
book on British/USA
electronic spying, is now
free (.pdf) online
http://tr.im/msnI
NSA/Utah
"Spies like us: NSA to
build huge facility in
Utah”
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_
12735293
Nuclear Facilities
"..accidental Internet
posting of a list of
government and civilian
nuclear facilities." (12
meg zip file)
http://is.gd/RG6a
Nutritionism
"Nutritionism might be http://tr.im/wvrX
the best thing to happen
to the food industry"
(book: "In Defense of
Food")
NY Times
Yes Men related for July
4, 2009 & “true cost tax
plan” is a sub-headline
http://www.nytimesse.com
NYC payphones
1 in 4 NYC subway
payphones don't work
http://tr.im/Bsew
NYC/Graffiti Video
Actions to counter the
excess of ads in NYC by
AntiAdvertisingAgency &
Graffiti Research Labs
http://antiadvertisin
gagency.com/wpcontent/video/lightcr
iticism.mov
NYC/open construction
Public opening of new
building designs and
locations
http://www.resource
shelf.com/2009/02/0
3/new-york-cityonline-database-ofconstruction-plansto-be-launched/
Obama
"The Black Agenda
Report" (African-American
commentary intensely
criticizing the Obama
admin)
http://is.gd/TuV8
Obama/Wiretapping
Obama's new era of
government becoming
unaccountable for
surveiling Americans
http://tr.im/iJ8J
OBL/book
(book & book review)
"Osama Bin Laden: Dead
Or Alive?" (dead, possibly
http://is.gd/JMw2
since Dec. 2001)
Office of Management &
Business Watch
"was formed in 1983 to
lift the veil of secrecy
shrouding the White
Office of
Management and
Budget (OMB), which
House
http://www.sourcew
atch.org/index.php?t
itle=OMB_Watch
oversees regulation, the
budget, information
collection and
dissemination, proposed
legislation, testimony by
agencies, and much
more.”
Oil Imports (America)
Animated map showing
the U.S.'s historical
imports of oil since 1973
http://move.rmi.org
/features/oilmap.ht
ml
Oil Spill Clean-up
Oil spill removal
w/aerogel
http://tinyurl.com/cl
as4y
Omni-Media (JZ coined
term)
Immersive Media,
Entertainment, Research,
Science, & Arts
http://www.imersa.o
rg
Online Broadcasting
Produce live shows
http://www.mogulus
.com/channels/prod
uce
Online Democracy
10/26/08
Growing link collection
with an online democracy
theme
http://collectconnect.blogspot.co
m/2008/09/onlinedemocracy-relatedlinks.html
Online Democracy
5/10/08
Video & commenting on
legislation (beta)
http://voterwatch.or
g
Online Documentary
Lawsuit for Dept of
Homeland Sec failing to
disclose records about
$92 million surveillance
system in Lower
Manhattan
http://is.gd/147KW
Online
Gaming/Forecasting
Multiplayer forecasting
game
http://www.superstr
uctgame.org
Accessing knowledge
through people/Find
people who want to
instruct
http://www.schoolof
everything.com (alpha
Online scams/crime alerts
archive
http://securityscrape
r.com/index.php?q=
Crime
Online Learning/Tutoring
Online Scams/Crime
Alerts
n/a
stage)
Online to local
convergence
n/a
How to combine online
access to local action
http://www.fixmystr
eet.com
Online Video
7/03/08
Video of William Cooper
http://tr.im/i8Tn
Online Video Library
7/04/08
Loaded
http://surfthechanne
l.com
Open Archi
"open architecture for
humanity"
http://www.ted.com
/index.php/talks/ca
meron_sinclair_on_o
pen_source_architec
ture.html
http://architecturefo
rhumanity.org
http://www.openarc
hitecturenetwork.org
Open Architecture
Network
http://openarchitect
urenetwork.org
Open Education/Mozilla
Mozilla Open Education
Course
https://wiki.mozilla.
org/Education/EduC
ourse
Open Everything/Wiki
"Open Everything" portal.
"..to create and
improve...everything."
http://openeverythin
g.wik.is
Open Gov
Org's and persons
advancing open
government/gov
transparency
http://tr.im/Bt2J
Open gov
"Summary Analysis of the
Open Government
Brainstorm"
http://is.gd/RJSZ
Open Gov
Public participation to
send ideas to
Whitehouse.gov about
open government
http://is.gd/C9nJ
Open Gov
Chile Gov's Public
Scrutiny Bill (thanks to
sunlightnetwork)
http://tr.im/juIT
Open Gov
Hold senators
accountable for blocking
legislation (winner of
"Apps for America")
http://filibusted.us
Open Gov
Transparency Camp 2009
http://transparencyc
Open Architecture
4/04/08
from last Feb/March
Open Gov
amp.org
Online townhall March 26
recap -
http://tr.im/hXa8
"Open for Questions" -
http://tr.im/hXau
Open Gov
“Sunshine week” was
March 15-21 promoting
open government
http://www.sunshine
week.org
Open Gov
Important event in Sept
in Washington DC with
enormous potential
http://www.gov2su
mmit.com
Open Gov
Wired's How-To Wiki
"Open Up Government
Data"
http://tinyurl.com/c
8986n
Open Gov
Federal government
documents most wanted
http://www.showust
hedata.org
Open Gov
Sun Light Foundation on
public bill-reviewing
http://tinyurl.com/b
zppx5
Open Government
OpenSecrets Goes
OpenData. 200 million
data records now publicly
available online
http://tr.im/iNry
Open Government
Document called
“MOVING TOWARD A
21ST CENTURY RIGHTTO-KNOW AGENDA-Recommendations to
President-elect Obama
and Congress”
http://www.ombwat
ch.org/21strtkrecs.p
df
http://www.sunshine
week.org/sunshinew
eek/opengroups08
Open Government
Open History
Updates have been added
to Historycommons.org,
growing to 13,830 events
http://is.gd/HcID
Open Learning
"Open Educational
Resources" (sharing free
edu resources)
http://is.gd/tO3M
Open Learning
OpenCourseWare
Consortium (free online
education database)
http://www.ocwcons
ortium.org
Interesting data
https://www.osscens
us.org
Open Source Census
Open Source Hardware
4/19/08
http://www.wired.co
m/techbiz/startups/
magazine/1611/ff_openmanufact
uring?currentPage=a
ll
http://gallery.openla
yers.org
Open Source Mapping
http://www.openmal
aysiablog.com
Open Standards/Malaysia
Promoting the open
standards format
Open Video
Open Video Conference http://is.gd/10d6K
in NYC June 19-20
OpenSource
Software/Gov
America
http://news.bbc.co.u
k/2/hi/technology/7
841486.stm
Britain
http://news.bbc.co.u
k/2/hi/uk_news/polit
ics/6430069.stm
Org retail crime
National Retail
http://is.gd/10Vbq
Federation 2009
Organized Retail Crime
Survey
Participatory Film
"Bottom-up" participation
for new film called "Life
Inc."
http://rushkoff.com/l
ifeincthemovie
http://museumtwo.p
bwiki.com
Participatory Museum
Paypal problems
PaypalSucks.com
website with
complaints, troubles,
fraud stories, lawsuits,
and other dissatisfaction
(not new)
http://paypalsucks.com
&
http://www.merchantinc.c
om (alternative)
Peace/Economics/Security
Economists for Peace &
Security
http://www.epsusa.o
rg
Pentagon travel money
"Pentagon Travel: How http://is.gd/16yIY
Outside Interests
Sponsor 1,000's of
Military Trips" (19972007=22,000
trips/$26m)
Pentagon/Human Rights
Former chief of Pentagons
"high value targeting"
shifts jobs to Human
Rights Watch
Pesticide Action Network
http://tr.im/ihhv
http://www.pan-
uk.org/Projects/Cott
on/index.htm
Resources
http://www.panuk.org/Publications/
Publist.htm
Go to bottom of the page
to activate
http://www.pgp.com
/downloads/desktopt
rial/desktoptrial2.ht
ml
Phone/privacy
Secure mobile phone
calling products
(Cryptophone)
http://cryptophone.com
Photo Editor (free)
FREE ONLINE PHOTO
EDITOR LIKE PHOTOSHOP
http://www.sumo.fi/
products/sumopaint/
index.php?id=0
Photo/S.Korea Nuclear
(Photo, nuclear gas mask
exercise) What S. Korean
elementary kids go
through because of N.
Korean gov insanity
http://is.gd/JhzW
Photography
Flickr's "The Commons" "hidden treasures in the
world's public
photography archives"
http://is.gd/qZmT
Photography
non-commercial source
for photos of Israeli and
Palestinian conflicts
http://activestills.org
Photography
Reconstruction
"4D Cities: Atlanta",
"Spatio-Temporal
Reconstruction from
Images"
http://is.gd/uEqD
Photography/Flash
"Infinite Photograph"
(thanks to Mediastorm)
requires Flash. Click once,
pause, and repeat to
continue thru photo
mosaics
http://tr.im/ja3d
Photography/Human
Landscapes
Boston.com photos of
human landscapes from
above
http://tr.im/k7sQ
photography/panoramic
Panoramic photography
from around the world
http://www.worldheritage-tour.org
Photos
Great photography
(though many of tragic
situations) of China,
Afghanistan, Mongolia,
India, and more
http://is.gd/JJcd
Pesticides/Briefs
PGP Desktop Encrytion
(free trial)
10/24/08
Photos/Afghanistan
Afghan photos from
Robert Young Pelton's
"Come Back Alive"
website
http://is.gd/BLdO
Photos/Afghanistan
Photo Collection of War in
Afghanistan (Kyrgyzstan
wants US out by 8/18)
http://is.gd/BKZf
Photos/Afpak-Iraq
Afghanistan, Pakistan, http://cryptome.info/afpak
Iraq War Photo Archive -archive/afpakarchive.htm
Photos/East Africa
More than 7,000 rare
photos of East Africa
documenting the Euro
colonization from 1860
through 1960.
http://i2sqr.tk
Photos/military
Interesting resource for
recent military photos
http://www.freemilitaryph
otos.com/
Photos/Obama tour
Gallery of Obama's tour
through Europe, Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, L.A., NYC,
Nevada, & Virginia
http://is.gd/RGPK
Photos/Protests
Gallery of protests and
protest-cops around the
world
http://tr.im/ih6b
Photos/Russia
Photo-based Russian
culture website
http://englishrussia.
com
Photos/space
Photos taken from the
International Space
Station
http://2befe.tk
Photos/Town Halls
Town Halls Gone Wild
http://tr.im/Bswj
Pills/Medical
"Worst pills" website by
"Public Citizen"
http://www.worstpill
s.org
Plant gene mapping
Plant gene mapping for
better biofuels
http://www.scienced
aily.com/releases/20
09/04/09041410264
8.htm
Plastic bags
http://www.reusable
bags.com/facts.php
9/29/08 (and Feb. 2009
addition)
&
http://www.nano.or
g.uk/news/jan2009/l
atest1740.htm
Plastic/toxins/toys
Plastic/Water
"Consumer guide to toxic
chemicals in toys"
http://is.gd/Cs4F
Polycarbonate water bottles
http://tr.im/m8gn & a
pursuit for 'greenest'
(greenwashing) plastic
bottle
http://tr.im/m8iO
Plastics
Vietnamese
scientists/closer to
healthier plastics?
http://www.nano.or
g.uk/news/jan2009/l
atest1740.htm
Plastics/Ocean
Pacific ocean garbage
patch (plastics) 1,000
miles from Cali & rise
in plastics
volume/decomposition
http://tr.im/Bsxx
&
http://tr.im/BsxD
Politics/Journalism
"American News Project"
video of fund-raising
parties (as much as 40
per day) by members of
Congress
http://tr.im/hLq4
Politics/money needed
"You say you want to
http://90pz4.tk
serve your country in
Congress? Show me the
money. Otherwise, you
will be shown the door."
British Politics & YouTube
http://news.slashdot
.org/article.pl?sid=0
8/06/14/0248211&fr
om=rss
Pollution clean-ups
Mapping/listing tool that
shows sites where
pollution is being or has
been cleaned up
throughout the United
States
http://is.gd/lqd8
Popular “Activism”
This was on the back of a
Doritos bag
http://www.dosomet
hing.org/clubs
Power & Carbon Measure
Carbon and power
monitor by Microsoft &
Google
http://tinyurl.com/b
7o5q3
Politics/YouTube
6/14/08
&
http://www.google.o
rg/powermeter/
Power
Brokers/Connections
"Power Brokers and Their
Connections" (pay site)
http://www.africaint
elligence.com/mce/d
efault.asp
Power Grid/Map
Interactive power grid
map of United States
http://tr.im/k7vZ
Presidential Speech
Software
All presidential speeches
word usage/ interactive
graph
http://www.speechw
ars.com/sou/index.p
hp
http://presidentialtra
nsition.gov
Presidential Transition
Prison/cost
DoJ Bureau of Prisons:
"The fee to cover the
average cost of
incarceration for Fed
inmates in Fiscal Year
2008 was $25,895."
Prisons/Terrorists
"There Are Already 355
Terrorists in American
Prisons"
http://is.gd/LYNL
Privacy Tech
Free CryptoPhone
download for PC
(uncertain if works)
http://tr.im/Bt1C
Products/Art/True Cost
Imagine "true cost"
mapping of products
related to radiology art
*then add what's at
http://www.radiolog
yart.com
Photos of recent military
contractors protest (riot
shotgun, high-powered
mace, militant police gear
present)
http://tr.im/hXBI
http://waterfootpri
nt.org
Protest Photos/Pentagon
Public Education/Movie
http://www.johntayl
orgatto.com/fourthp
urpose/gatto.htm
7/28/08
Public Funding
New website with video
overview on public
funding of public interests
http://www.youstree
t.org
http://www.publicag
enda.org
Public Interest
Public Interest
10/30/08
“standing up to powerful
interests”
http://www.uspirg.o
rg
Public Opinion
9/11/08
Managed by the Program
on International Policy
Attitudes at the University
of Maryland
http://www.worldpu
blicopinion.org
Publicly Funded Elections
10/14/08
Quicktime Virtual
3/20/08
Reality/Visualization/Virtu
al Time Travel
http://www.just6doll
ars.org/
Example for modeling a
virtual earth to visit
anywhere you want.
Combine that with datalayering & other aspects
http://www.petermc
cready.com/portfolio
/05091901.html AND
http://geoimages.be
to the web to produce
more meshed dimension
rkeley.edu/worldwid
epanorama/wwp906
/index.html
Raw food
Controversy of raw
http://www.farmtoconsum
milk, benefits of raw
er.org/raw%20milk%20vi
honey, threats to
deos.htm
bees/pollination, & gov
obstacles
Remix Culture
"an open source
documentary about
copyright and remix
culture"
http://www.ripremix
.com
Video and article
http://edition.cnn.co
m/2008/TECH/07/09
/remote.fighters/ind
ex.html#cnnSTCVide
o
Resource Guide
National Geographic's
"The Green Guide"
http://is.gd/HXcw
Rhode Island/Community
"collaboration to
implement communitydriven Big Ideas to
improve the economic &
social sustainability of
Providence, RI."
http://tr.im/jggl
Robot ethics
"Moral Machines"
http://tr.im/oXyp
(teaching robots right
from wrong) blog on
theory & dev of
artificial moral agents &
computational ethics
Robot Ethics
Ethical Guidelines for
Battlefield Robots
http://is.gd/BMEe
Robotics/Ethics
"Autonomous Military
Robotics: Risk, Ethics,
and Design" (.pdf)
http://is.gd/jOMB
Robotics/Farming
Farming Robotics/"robot
farmhands"
http://is.gd/UYhw
Robots
"March of the Killer
http://tr.im/oGax
Robots." In war, the
moral consequences are
often overlooked when
using remote-control
tanks & planes
Robots/War
Existence of deploying
robots for battle
Remote controlled killers
8/18/08
http://is.gd/BMP8
RSS to SMS
7/04/08
(beta)
http://pingie.com/be
ta/index.php
Rushkoff/Democracy
8/10/08
Video talk from BlipTV
http://blip.tv/file/10
47324
Saddam/FBI
Saddam Hussein Talks
to the FBI: Twenty
Interviews and Five
Conversations
http://www.docuticker.co
m/?p=26739
SAT/Telecom
World's largest satellite http://tr.im/Bo3j
(TerreStar-1) for US cell
phone service launched
into orbit by French
rocket
Saudi Arabia/Human
Rights
Center for Democracy and
Human Rights in Saudi
Arabia
http://is.gd/tBX7
Science + Policy Making
10/28/08
Federation of American
Scientists Forum on
critical national decisions
http://fas.gather.co
m/?ref=grp_fas
Scientology Resources
8/18/08
Includes 1983 Penthouse
interview w/L. Ron
Hubbard Jr. thanks to
xenu.net
http://scientology.re
-configure.org
Script Blocker/Firefox
Firefox script blocker addon
http://noscript.net
Search
New information-retriever
(also see
http://www.kosmix.c
om
Search Engine/Privacy
Privacy practicing search
engine
http://ixquick.com
Search/Petroleum
SearchCloud.net and
Interesting search engine
Petroleum industry search http://is.gd/vHSF
engine
(quick tutorial video here
http://ixquick.com)
http://tr.im/k9hf) &
Petroluem Indust. search
http://tr.im/k9hL
Seawater Farm
9/24/08
Carl Hodges and the
diverting of seawater
inland for growth as well
as glacier meltdown relief
http://globalseawate
r.com
Seawater Farm II
9/24/08
Carl Hodges and the
diverting of seawater
inland for growth as well
as glacier meltdown relief
http://www2.tbo.co
m/content/2008/sep
/14/na-physicistsidea-to-divert-waterinland-is-a-sea/
Seawater Farm III (video) 9/24/08
Country: Eritrea and
using seawater inland,
world's 1st seawater farm
http://www.seawate
rfoundation.org/sea_
eritrea.html
Secrecy/Art
Opening Gov/military
secrecy alittle when
converging it with art
http://is.gd/zeq6
Secrecy/Law
Secrecy of CIA & Bushera documents on torture
videos up for ruling in
court
http://is.gd/VUUE
Self-Protection
Sokwanele in Zimbabwe,
and using Tor for selfprotection
http://is.gd/uKA3
Condensed self-publishing
in Flash ePaper
http://www.scribd.c
om
Semantic/Geospatial
University of Dallas +
Intel/Geo-spatial Agency
+ Defense contractor for
Web
http://www.direction
smag.com/article.ph
p?article_id=3123
Seniors
Respecting the power of
seniors (severely
neglected segment of
population) &
"grandparent economy"
(thanks resourceshelf)
http://tr.im/ji9Z
Self-Publishing
4/07/08
Sensemaking/Climate
Change
http://kmi.open.ac.u
k/events/essence
Serious Gaming toolkit
http://www.gamesfo
rchange.org/toolkit
Sewers/Infrastruture
Sewer Guru Says It’s
http://tr.im/BswM
Time To Get Down To
Business (investment in
public sanitation)
SF/Latin America
US Special Forces
http://bit.ly/cLKnj
involvement in 19 Latin
American countries
during 2009
Shared Experiences
Sharing mistakes made
http://www.weareon
lyhuman.com/
Shredder
"very heavy duty
shredder designed to
physically destroy hard
drives, backup tapes, cell
phones, laptop
computers"
http://tr.im/j9ks
Sickness monitoring
"Realtime disease
detection for your city
from messages on Twitter
(and soon Facebook)”
(beta)
http://sickcity.org
Organization of vital
http://www.simcoun
Simulation
3/25/08
Simulation/Gaming
10/30/08
Simulation/Sim
Everything
resources and how key
aspects of governance are
configured
try.com
“Simulating reality” &
“Gaming warfighters”
http://www.fcw.com
/industry_insights/cs
_10202008_Index.ht
ml
Microsoft's pursuit of
virtualizing and layering a
digital world (also see
dufoundation.org & this
proposal written before
SecondLife, GoogleEarth,
and without reading
William Gibson or
http://www.redmonk
.com/jgovernor/200
8/09/25/living-inde-material-worldon-microsoft-trainsim-and-the-virtualeverything/
&
http://www.thestand
ard.com/news/2008/
09/25/3d-futureaccording-microsoftphotosynth-basedspatial-web
Simulation/Training
Simulation training
special report
http://fcw.com/micr
osites/training-andsimulation/simulatin
g-reality.aspx
Smartphone Ultrasound
Imaging
Smartphone-compatible
USB ultrasound probes
for imaging the kidney,
liver, bladder and eyes
(and more)
http://tr.im/joyw
Smithsonian/Contest
Smithsonian Institute
asking the public how
they see the future of the
Institute/YouTube call to
action
http://is.gd/Dqpw
“We want people to know
that if they are trying to
rig the election, there
could be someone behind
them and that person
may send a text message
saying what happened.”—
Emauwa Nelson, Human
Emancipation Lead
Project, Nigeria
http://www.frontline
sms.com/
SMS
10/26/08
“Based in Africa in a
country where broadcast
technology is controlled
by a dictatorial
government, this
software has enabled me
to communicate with the
public at large.” anonymous
SMS (upgrade)
http://www.kwiry.co
m
10/26/08
http://broadtexter.co
m
SMS broadcast service
SMS Crime Alerts
Singapore, Boston, and
elsewhere using resident
alerts
http://mobileactive.
org/sms_crime
&
http://www.spf.gov.s
g/crimeprevention/cr
imesms_index.htm
http://www.mepeme
pe.com/wiki/RapidS
MS
SMS/group sms
SMS/T-shirt
Shirt as an SMS gateway
to possible public intel (I
pitched this idea to
multeepurpose.com last
year)
Social Change
6/16/08
Social Innovation
10/26/08
Social Network Dev
4/19/08
Society History
5/16/08
http://is.gd/xFwf
http://www.socialact
ions.com
Collaborative
competitions
http://www.change
makers.net/enus/competitions
http://www.ning.co
m
Clay Shirky video
http://nielsenhayden
.com/makinglight/ar
chives/010186.html
#010186
Software/Free Downloads
(long forgotten link I
should have posted long
ago)
http://www.tucows.c
om
Solar Power
World's largest solar
power tower
http://tr.im/k155
Solar Power
Solar power to aid
poverty
http://solaraid.org/video
Solar Power
The Solar Electric Light
Fund
http://www.self.org
Soldier's blog
http://blog.justanoth
ersoldier.com
8 minute crash course
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=QiQGI
tUB8r4
South Korea/Tech
Future South Korean
soldier gear
http://news.cnet.co
m/8301-13639_31009895342.html?part=rss&s
ubj=news&tag=254
7-1_3-0-5
Space/report
International space
station report on 100
sciennce experiments
from 2000-2008
http://tr.im/Bt6x
Spam Scams
Scams and methods
used to combat the
people behind online
spamming scams
http://419eater.com
“..unveils the beauty of
statistical time series by
converting boring
numbers into enjoyable,
animated and interactive
graphics.”
http://gapminder.org
Stimulus Tracking
Database to track web
sites in the U.S. that
report how stimulus funds
are being spent
http://www.ddmcd.c
om/pages.html
Stimulus-watch
"Stimulus Watch" (but do
more than just watch,
right?)
http://is.gd/Vghp
Student Help Online
Online help for student
homework
http://www.cramster
.com
Student tracking
On 6/24, Fed gov grant
competition ($250m) for
data system to track
"student achievements.
"Data marts, data
warehouses."
http://tr.im/nrvf
Surveillance Self-Defense
The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) has
created this Surveillance
Self-Defense site
https://ssd.eff.org
Behavior tracking
http://www.economi
st.com/science/displ
ayStory.cfm?source
=hptextfeature&stor
y_id=12465303
Somalia (video)
Statistics/Visualization
Surveillance Tech
4/05/08
10/14/08
10/28/08
Tax Spending/Open Gov
"..see how and where
your tax dollars are
spent."
http://www.recovery
.gov
Tax-spending
Enter the amount of
Federal Income Tax you
paid during 2008 and see
how the government
spent the money (income
tax chart)
http://tr.im/iHwq
Taxes
9/10/08
Map of where our taxes
go
http://www.wallstats
.com/deathandtaxes
/
Taxes/Wiki
4/07/08
Tax Almanac Wiki run by
Intuit.com
http://www.taxalma
nac.org
http://programforth
efuture.org
Tech + Collective
intelligence
Tech research/Society
“Center for information
tech & research in the
interest of society"
http://is.gd/ujHi
Tech/City/Urban Tech
Situated Technologies:
Toward the Sentient City"
Fall event at the
Architecture League of NY
http://tinyurl.com/6
9m8zg
Tech/Mex border
DHS + Boeing's "Virtual
fence" at Mexican border
resuming
http://is.gd/yULn
Techno-Democracy
“Apps for Democracy,”
though unfortunately
dominated by mainly
iPhone & Facebook
applications
http://www.appsford
emocracy.org
http://www.javvin.c
om/links.html
Technology Maps
TED video/Public Space
Telephone/Mobile
9/03/08
Tragedy of suburbia
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=Q1Ze
XnmDZMQ
Do not call registry. Call
1.888.382.1222
http://www.ftc.gov/
donotcall
http://www.millermccune.com/article/
project-keeps-skywatchers-in-eternaldark
telescopes/internet
Terrorism Database
Global terrorism database
http://tr.im/muRg
Terrorism/FBI
The second United States
citizen, and the only
http://is.gd/tNoo
domestic terrorist, to
appear on the Most
Wanted Terrorists list.
Textiles/Work Conditions
“Improving working
conditions in the garment
industry”
http://www.cleanclot
hes.org
Timeline
(mural graphic) "CoEvolution of human
systems and tool
systems"
http://tinyurl.com/6
k4mb4
Tobacco/history
"Smoke & Mirrors"
interactive media/shared
virtual enviro on history
of tobbacco industry &
their psych marketing ops
http://is.gd/Kshk
Torture/Congress
Revealing overview on
torture issue from
yesterday's Congressional
Record from Senator
Sheldon Whitehouse
http://is.gd/XkGo
Touchscreen tech
http://www.percepti
vepixel.com/
JAN. 2009
Town rebuilding plans
Master plan for
Greensberg Kansas,
rebuilding after hit by
tornado
http://tinyurl.com/d
94toj
Tracking Gov Website
Changes
ChangeTracker, an
experimental new tool
that watches pages on
whitehouse.gov,
recovery.gov and
financialstability.gov
http://tr.im/hNXv
Tracking/Tech
Tracking cookies
http://tr.im/BsWO
Transit updating
Exchange messages with
your fellow riders to ease
and speed your commute.
(no sms + wifi
underground though for
subways)
http://tr.im/jgaF
Transit/Global Database
Global city map database
for transportation
services
http://www.med44.c
om/metro/index.htm
l
Transit/SMS
NYC subway text
messaging alerts
http://tr.im/jgbc
Translation
Free online language
translator
http://is.gd/CZ4r
Transparency
International
Global coalition against
corruption
http://www.transpar
ency.org
Trash energy
(2007) Portable generator
http://news.uns.pur
turns trash into
electricity, "tactical
biorefinery"
due.edu/x/2007a/07
0201LadischBio.html
Travel
Travel rankings for best
places to 'stand' in
America, and Europe
http://is.gd/FQpz
Travel Film
Archive/History
Travel the world the way
it was
http://www.youtube.
com/user/travelfilma
rchive
Visit places virtually
http://www.geobeat
s.com
Travel/tracking
"Social Atlas" tracking
where people travel
http://www.dopplr.c
om
True Cost/Cheesburger
Partial true cost of
cheeseburger (lacks
mention of water
footprint due to narrower
focus on greenhouse
gases)
http://tr.im/jizr
True Cost/Packaging
The "true cost" of
packaging (more at
Travel Videos
6/04/08
http://www.security
packaging.com/cost.
http://true-cost.rephp
configure.org)
Developing webs of trust
http://www.mywot.c
om
Trust on the
Web/Reputation rating
3/30/08
Twitter + Army concerns
10/27/08
http://blog.wired.co
m/defense/2008/10/
terrorist-cell.html
Twitter + Vote Reporting
10/27/08
http://twittervoterep
ort.com
Twitter alternative
"Free and Open Source http://is.gd/15zpN
microblogging
platform" (alternative to
Twitter)
Twitter/EIN
The Earth Intelligence
Network Twitter page
Twitter/Police
PA & NYPD
http://www.phibetaiota.net
Criminalize Twitter.
/?p=12553
Elliot Madison Accused
Of Using Twitter To
Tweet Police Actions At
G-20 Protests.
U.N. + Informed
Democracy
3/19/08
So often the term
“international community”
is mentioned more
related to diplomats than
http://twitter.com/e
arthintelnet
http://www.undemo
cracy.com
to literally,the entire
international community
of Earth
U.S. GPO/YouTube
U.S. Government Printing
Office's YouTube channel.
Keeping America
informed, dates to 1813
http://www.youtube.
com/user/gpoprinter
UAV/Photos/Mapping/3-D
Unmanned aerial bots,
photosynth, and mapping
in 3-D for disaster
response/relief
http://tr.im/jLov
UN + corporations
Key review of the
"United Nations" &
corporations
http://tr.im/BrRi
UN/e-Gov
E-government United
Nations document "E-Gov
to Connected
Governance" (246 pages)
http://tr.im/hNM6
Unexploded munitions
Weapons in need of
disposal at the bottom of
the ocean
http://www.physorg.
com/news15417180
6.html
Unmanned aerial
vehicles/N. Dakota
N. Dakota unmanned
aircraft ops video
http://tinyurl.com/d
nz5xy
&
http://tinyurl.com/d
cvnxd
Urgent Threat Reduction
Prez of eBay donating
$100 million to
organization "addressing"
threats/water
shortages/pandemics/Mid
dle East conflict
http://tr.im/j77b
Verizon refunds
"Verizon and Alltel
(now part of Verizon)
will have to deliver
roughly $30 million in
refunds to consumers"
http://m7whf.tk
Veterans
Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America
http://iava.org
Veterans health
From the Colbert Report,
challenges faced by
veterans coming back
home,
Supportyourvet.org
http://is.gd/xjRj
http://tr.im/kGEw
Video
Remix NYC
http://is.gd/107D4
Video (short)
America's ups & downs
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=Qq8U
c5BFogE
(video)
Video Archive
Over 35 million hours of
video
http://is.gd/WxMS
Video archive/lectures
Video archive of
lectures
http://forum-network.org
Will accelerate the variety
of use of portable video
www.flipvideo.com
Video Equip
6/12/08
Video gaming/learning
(pdf) "Game Changer: Http://spveu.tk
Investing in digital play
to advance children's
learning and health"
Video/”Federal Reserve”
"Inside the Fed" public
video overview
http://is.gd/BSRu
Video/3-D/Mapping
Disasters
Mapping disasters in 3-D,
finding victims
http://tr.im/jLoe
Video/3D/Ancient History
Ancient Rome in 3D
http://earth.google.c
om/rome/index.html
Video/Afghanistan
US military in Afghanistan
& often contradictory
instructions laid out in the
Counterinsurgency Field
Manual
http://tr.im/jish
Video/Afghanistan
Military training and
hashish in Afghanistan
http://tr.im/ieVE
Video/Afghanistan/youth
Skateboarding school in
Afghanistan, "Skateistan"
(thanks
Arch4HumanityND!)
http://is.gd/OLSP
Video/Banking
"The best way to rob a
bank is to own one"
http://is.gd/qJ63
Video/Biochar
Potential of "biochar" to
improve the fertility of
poor soils, & sequester
carbon
http://tr.im/jOLU
Video/Brain Chip
60 minutes TV broadcast
from Nov. 2008 on
“BrainGate”
http://tr.im/oXLR
Video/Capitalism
Reconceiving towards
constructive capitalism
(video presentation)
http://vimeo.com/32
04792
Video/capitalism
rethought
Japanese ceo of Japlan
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=fF6lxI
LnRuE
Video/China
Incredible video of riots http://www.youtube.com/
in China's Shishou City, watch?v=1CMeueWEZfU
Hubei Province. 70,000
protestors over
controversial
death/murder of a chef
Video/CIA
Conversations With
http://www.youtube.com/
History - Robert Baer
watch?v=paS1-ee-5cU
(former CIA middle east
agent)
video/credit-viz
“crisis of credit visualized”
http://is.gd/kb3X
Video/Data Viz/Spending
Wallstats.com "Death &
Taxes" poster (visual
data) on Martha Stewart
discussing Federal budget
& debt
http://tr.im/mnNE
Video/David Simon/Bill
Moyers
David Simon (The Wire)
talks w/Bill Moyers about
inner-city crime, politics,
storytelling, & future of
journalism
http://tr.im/jusj
Video/druglords
Trailer: New American
Druglords
http://www.madcowprod.c
om/nadlvideo.html
Video/Education
TED Video on Education,
"Do Schools Kill
Creativity?"
http://tr.im/iGcb
Video/Financial Fraud
William K. Black-systemic financial fraud at
least 100x worse then in
the 1980's yet 1/5 less
the FBI agents
http://is.gd/LLh4
video/flight
Incredible video of cliff
diving flight suits
http://vimeo.com/m
oogaloop.swf?clip_id
=1778399&server=v
imeo.com&sho
Video/Food Industry
Doc "Our Daily Bread" http://tr.im/Bsly
about industrial
environments &
processes involved in
the making the foods we
eat
Video/global
improvement
Video from last years
Buck Minster Fuller
Challenge on
improvements in
designs (BFI.org)
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=v7OBTiyMoSE
Video/Government
“Wiki Whitehouse” event
sponsored by Google &
Wired ,magazine
http://www.newame
rica.net/events/2008
/wiki_white_house
Video/Greenspan/Fed
Reserve
Alan Greenspan says (at
7:49 mark) "there is no
other agency of gov that
can overrule actions we
take"
http://tr.im/i08M
Video/Guantanamo
Recently Released
Guantanamo Bay
Detainee (after 7.5 yrs)
http://is.gd/VT5R
Video/Industrialization
aftermath
Interesting documentary,
"Manufactured
Landscapes"
http://tinyurl.com/2
9d8or
Video/Intel
Community/Black Ops
"Ninety-five percent of
what we do shouldn't be
classified at all, or it
should be a much lower
level of classification"
http://tr.im/k23o
9-11/Video/Investigation
The Pentacon
http://thepentacon.com
9-11/Video/Investigation
11 videos from the
http://vimeo.com/cit/video
Citizen Investigation
s
Team's 3 year
investigation on the 9/11
attack on the Pentagon
Video/Iran history
Stephen Kinzer, author http://is.gd/1c9Vu
of "All The Shah's Men"
speaks on Iran's
history/British & US
corporate & political
power
Video/Iraq
Generation Kill - Iraq.
"Youth culture and the
military machine"
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=3y_5vxM8PYM
Video/John Pilger/Obama
John Pilger video on
censorship in free
societies, propaganda,
lies, and reading
between the lines
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=gXL998q7skI
Video/Language
After the 2 min mark,
why are we continuing to
hear the old term "new
world order" from
Kissinger about Obama?
http://tr.im/hZgP
Video/Lawyer to Martin
Luther King Family
William Pepper, lawyer to
MLK family providing
insights
http://tinyurl.com/c
ujewv
Video/Mobile/Conflict
YouTube contest related
to materials used in
mobile
devices/electronics from
the Congo, and violent
conflict
http://is.gd/CZ25
Video/Online
Maliciousness
(1 hr tech-talk)
"Searching for Evil" Aspects of malicious
online activity
http://is.gd/18sXy
Video/Pakistan ISI
Long a concern for
http://is.gd/YDwY
Pakistan, the extremism
& subversive powers of
the Pakistan intelligence
agency (ISI)
Video/Pandemic
Prevention
2006 video of Larry
Brilliant calling for a
global system that can
identify & contain
pandemics before they
spread
Video/Pentagon Attack
NATIONAL
http://www.youtube.com/
SECURITY ALERT watch?v=j5FhQc-LJ-o
SENSITIVE
INFORMATION,
Pentagon attack, Lloyde
England
Video/Privacy
Privacy Matters, from The
Netherlands. (It's our
data..if money is made
from it, where's our %?)
http://tr.im/jong
Video/Saudi influence
Saudi influence in
elections contradicting
the democratic process
http://is.gd/10Y2q
Video/State Dept
American high tech
delegation (including
people from Google &
Twitter) visited Iraq for
future development (and
other issues/mediocre
brief)
http://tr.im/jJJs
Video/transit
(video for New Yorkers)
ARC: Trans-Hudson
Passenger Rail Tunnel
http://is.gd/XuyZ
Video/True Cost of War
Videos
Videos/Cheney/Iraq
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ksmh
ALajy4c&NR=1
10/06/08
Video/War/Medevac
10/28/08
http://tr.im/jLOO
"The Ugly Of War" Afghanistan (Medevac
Crew Chief)
http://is.gd/LUKT
Video talks on many
issues
http://fora.tv
Cheney on invading Iraq in
1992 -
http://tinyurl.com/c
22k6k
Cheney in 1994 on Iraq -
http://tinyurl.com/2
ef6rm
Videos/Democracy
"Democracy is.."? video
challenge up for vote
http://is.gd/BOqo
Videos/Enviro-Justice
Good video resource &
noble cause organization
http://www.youtube.
com/user/Environme
ntalJustice
Videos/Intel Community
Intelligence Community
reports by Bill Moyers
1987 video "Constitution in
Crisis" http://tr.im/jJqt
& Moyers Journal 2007
http://tr.im/jJqF
Videos/Issues
Global issue videos
http://www.youtube.
com/user/journeyma
npictures
Videos/Lives/Story-Telling
Powerful small doses of
documentary
photojournalism movies
http://mediastorm.o
rg
Videos/Modern Slavery
Videos
http://www.freethesl
aves.net/Page.aspx?
pid=316
Videos/Politics
BOLD POLITICS:
George Galloway at the
US Senate
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=IyyGo
PerzWc
&
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=3lINN
ad6Njs
Videos/Sciences
(pay-video resource)
"Films for the Humanities
and Sciences"
http://www.films.co
m
Videos/Social Issues
Media that Matters Film
Fest (all 12 are online)
http://is.gd/zntZ
Virtual Democracy/Britain
Virtual democracy
websites from Britaiin,
yes, Britain
http://www.mysociet
y.org/projects
Virtual world as a web
browser
http://www.technolo
gyreview.com/read_
article.aspx?ch=spec
ialsections&sc=futur
ebiz&id=21079
Zfone Project. Secure
VoIP
http://is.gd/vF6Q
Virtual World
8/26/08
VoIP/Security
Vote Fraud
7/31/08
Vote Fraud/Comic
10/27/08
http://www.stealing
americathemovie.or
g
Greg Palast + Robert
Kennedy Jr. investigation
http://www.gregpala
st.com/sbyv/downlo
ad/SBYV-Guide100608.pdf
W. Bush/shoes
Relive him dodging two
shoes thrown at him over
and over with this
animated gif
http://i36.tinypic.co
m/2uyod3k.gif
9-11 (post)/War
Mosaic Intelligence
Report: 9/11 - Good
War, Bad War, No War
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=3Q8HstvFwmQ
9-11/ (postWar cost
"The Total Cost of Iraq,
Afghanistan, & Other
Global War on Terror
Operations Since 9/11"
http://is.gd/Tr6x
War Simulation
War simulation
experience live
http://wowsurrender
.org
http://www.exposethe-warprofiteers.org
War/Profits
The other D.C.
http://yellowarrow.n
et/v3/projects_cop.h
tml
Waste Clean-up
Hazardous Waste CleanUp Information
http://clu-in.org/
Water
Short story, founder of http://tr.im/Brzs
the org "Charity:Water"
building wells that
provide clean water
around the world
Water
"Facts about water"
http://is.gd/zeG5
Water
“Circle of Blue” reporting
on the fresh water crisis
http://twitter.com/ci
rcleofblue
Washington D.C.
10/26/08
Water
10/26/08
Water (bottled)
7/06/08
Water footprint
http://www.globalwa
terchallenge.org
Lessening corporate
control of water
http://www.thinkout
sidethebottle.org
How much water is used
for everyday products?
http://www.waterfoo
tprint.org/?page=file
s/productgallery&pro
duct=cotton
http://www.waterfoo
tprint.org/?page=file
s/Publications
Water/Data
Website on the amounts http://waterfortheages.org/
of water in what we eat water-what-you-eat/
Water/Data Viz
Data visualizations of
water, usage, shortage,
cholera, bottled water,
etc
http://tr.im/BsY4
Water/Data Viz
GoogleEarth water
projects by
"charity:water"
http://is.gd/iWP2
Water/documentary
"Liquid Assets" Water
Infrastructure
documentary
http://is.gd/vZNg
Water/Documentary
Water infrastructure
documentary called
“Liquid Assets”
http://liquidassets.p
su.edu
http://www.flowthefi
lm.com/
Water/documentary
Water/GoogleEarth
U.S. water usage by state
on Google Earth
http://tr.im/l8Ji
Water/info-graphic
Graphic: Bottled water
imports and exports
http://tr.im/l8Kl
Water/purifier
"Life Straw" portable
water purifier for
prevention of common
diarrhoeal disease
http://is.gd/BOVo
Water/Video
How un-important water
really is?
http://www.circleofb
lue.org/waternews/a
rts/video-no-reason/
Water/Video
Video and news on water
issues and open to taking
people's stories and links
http://www.circleofb
lue.org
http://www.circleofb
lue.org/waternews/
We the People (power to
the people)
Wealth/Democracy
n/a
Online portal (England)
for local awareness &
participation
http://www.theywor
kforyou.com
“We can have a
democracy or we can
have great wealth
concentrated in the hands
of the few. We cannot
have both.” -Former
Supreme Court Justice
Louis Brandeis
http://tr.im/i3Fi
http://www.webfoun
dation.org
Web advancement
Whistleblower Laws
See which states have the
strongest and weakest
whistleblower laws
http://www.docutick
er.com/?p=25661
Whistleblowing
Reminder about this
important website
http://wikileaks.org
http://www.whiteho
use2.org &
http://www.obamact
o.org
Whitehouse 2/American
government
Wii/Parkinson's Disease
"Wii-hab." Game
systems as rehab tool
for parkinson's disease
http://is.gd/10PX6
Wiki + Politics
6/04/08
Direct the ideal
presidential candidate
http://www.wikicand
idate08.com
Wiki + Politics
6/04/08
Sunlight Foundation
based wiki
http://www.sourcew
atch.org/index.php?t
itle=Congresspedia
Wikileaks
(posted via Twitter)
Http://twitter.com/w
Wikileaks.org claims it ikileaks
has a safe & completely
unblockable encrypted
"twitter" prototype,
ideal for Iran, China, etc
& seeks funding.
Wikileaks/Anti-Open
Source
(wikileaks) "..the
http://tr.im/n7bx
influence of US lobbies
& Peru Congressman letter
such as MicroSoft on the
EU Open Source Software http://tr.im/nMWB
WorkGroup" & Peru
Congressman letter to
Microsoft on Open Source
Wikileaks/Cult
Controversial/criminal http://is.gd/1avpK
California cult,
"Fellowship of Friends"
Wikileaks/Swiss Banking
Overview of Parasitic
Banking System of
Switzerland
http://is.gd/16xyq
Wikileaks/Twitter
Wikileaks Twitter page
http://is.gd/oQbQ
“wireless influencer's
2008”
http://www.rutbergc
o.com/conferences/
wireless-influencers2008/content.html
Wiretap/open gov/tech
"Telecoms Win Dismissal
of Wiretap Suits," gov
spending online, growing
tech influence on DC, and
more
http://tr.im/nqQM
Wiretapping
War on public privacy:
Electronic Frontier
http://www.eff.org/nsa/he
pting
Wireless
10/26/08
Foundation vs. AT&T
battle rages on
Work hazards
Obama admin not
addressing rise in
workplace hazards as
numbers of OSHA
inspections drop
http://www.docuticker.co
m/?p=28142
World Data Maps
How Stuff Works Maps
http://is.gd/u9yb
World Digital Library
World Digital Library now
online, supported by
UNESCO (thanks
resourceshelf)
http://www.wdl.org/
en
World Hunger Brief
Earth Situation: Hunger
(Flash overview of world
hunger crisis)
http://tr.im/i4xy
massive experiment in
teaching Introduction to
Cultural Anthropology
launched in Fall 2004 by
Michael Wesch and 400
students at Kansas State
University
http://worldsim.wet
paint.com/?t=anon
World
Simulation/Education
NOV. 2008
World Summit on Social
Innovation &
Entrepreneurship
10/26/08
WorldwideCollaboration
4/17/08
from
http://www.britannic
a.com/blogs/2008/1
0/a-vision-ofstudents-todaywhat-teachers-mustdo/
http://www.wsie.org
/08/spotlight.asp
Pooling resources
http://open.coop
YouTube/Education
YouTube Edu
http://www.youtube.
com/edu
Zimbabwe/Cholera/Food
Zimbabwe cholera
epidemic of nearly
100,000 with highest
food-aid dependency in
the world
http://tr.im/mvDg
& http://tr.im/mvDW
Zimbabwe/video
"Inside a Failed State"
The need for change "Our
government is a monster"
http://tr.im/ieRm
Zimbabwe/Violence/Mapp
ing/SMS
Mapping Terror in
Zimbabwe: Political
Violence & Elections 2008
http://is.gd/lDVJ