It seems that a few years back Penny Power wrote a piece using this phrase which gave examples of Linkedin and Facebook as closed networks (one business and once social) and Twitter as an example of an open, random and supportive network:

Two companies that have established themselves in the world of Brands and  then, after all this time and energy has been spent an enormous noise came along, like a thundering train, called Twitter.Open, Random and Supportive, it allows anyone to follow anyone, it broadcasts ‘tweets’ openly and randomly and it creates broadcasted conversation and a place where others support on another. It moves people from ‘it is wrong to have a shallow, wide network of people you don’t know’ into ‘it is cool to be followed and it appeals to my ego to have followers’. At last, it has taken eleven years, the view of the Founders of Ecademy has been vindicated, Open, Random and Supportive Networking is the future. Twitter is the fastest growing network of all time.

So, two years later with the advent a few months ago of G+ circling and now Facebook subscribing, we now find that we have a record setting fast growth social networking site (G+) and a previously closed social networking site becoming more open, random and supportive with the addition of subscriptions on Facebook. People can now allow others who are not their friends to subscribe to their Facebook posts which they choose to make public. This, in my opinion puts Facebook in the ORS driver’s seat going forward over both Google and Twitter given FB’s established user base, less strict character and sharing limitations and improving privacy controls by Facebook (this is an opt in feature). If you want to be more open, random and supportive in your social networking, I definitely suggest giving Facebook subscriptions (both allowing and subscribing) a try. If you need a place to start, my feed is available here. As long as FB allows me to, I’ll continue to subscribe to at least most of my subscribers in an effort to be open, random and supportive.

I’ll close with another quote from Penny Power:

Social Media is  ’Collecting and Sharing Knowledge‘, while Social Networking is ‘Collecting and Sharing People‘. You can have all the knowledge in the world in your head, but unless you start to Blog it, video it and be more visible and sharing, it will go unseen. However, there is no point in creating this content if you have not got a network that wants to listen and this is where Social Networking comes in, ‘Collecting and Sharing people’ who have given you permission to tell you what you are doing.

FEMA’s Prior Knowledge of 9-11 Put to Rest

Considering all the other material which could have been emphasized, why choose that particular one. Shrug. Oh, well… enjoy the video:

Federal Bureau of Investigation Penttbom Unit, Video NE518 released in Nov 2008 under FOIA. This video copy came from the raw original NIST FOIA #20 file clip # 3.

Temporarily Offline

On Thursday, the CIA threatened the journalists behind Who Is Rich Blee? with possible federal prosecution if the investigative podcast is released in its current form.

We are delaying that release while we consult with others and weigh our options. A press statement with a more complete explanation will be made available at this site soon.

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(This appears to be the video excerpt which was covered last month by The Daily Beast)

ETA: – I just noticed that I’m still getting pretty healthy traffic to my blog from Barry Jennings searchers (FYI – he survived being trapped in WTC 7 for several hours prior to the collapse (controlled demolition?) of that building on 9/11/2001, and died a little over three years ago) who might be interested in this video as well, so I’ll include a mention of him here. My primary post on his death is here.

Part 1 Podcast Show #53.

Part 2 Podcast Show #54.

(Part 3 coming soon)

Boiling Frogs Breaking News: CIA Goes After Producers Nowosielski & Duffy

On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the CIA issued legal threats against producers Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy on their discovery of the identities of the two key CIA analysts who executed the Tenet-Black-Blee cover-up in the case of two key 9/11 hijackers. The analysts were referred to only by first names initially, but were going to be fully named in a follow up segment.

Nowosielski and Duffy are working with legal advisors and we will have more on this soon. Meanwhile you can listen to our recent exclusive interview with the producers and their discovery here at Boiling Frogs Post:

Podcast Show #55: The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy 

Also, here are related interviews with Paul Thompson based on the exposé by the two producers: Part 1 & Part 2.

The producers’ website was taken down yesterday. We are in touch with them, and we will keep you informed. Please disseminate this stunning new development, the CIA’s panic, and the content of their interview. Thank You.

 

I was reading just now on Empire Avenue’s blog that it will probably take around TWO weeks for them to come up with scores for wordpress blogs. Understandable, given how much data they must be crunching to come up with scores, but… but… “we want the world and we want it now!” J/K Empire Avenue. But, in the meantime, it looks like we should upgrade our wordpress blog feeds so that we get credit for them while the scores are getting figured out. So, here’s my upgrade code for this blog:

(ETA: now at the top of the post; seems they like it there better)