Blog Archives
CIA and Open Source
WaTimes – The new Open Source Center (OSC) at CIA headquarters recently stepped up data collection and analysis based on bloggers worldwide and is developing new methods to gauge the reliability of the content, said OSC Director Douglas J. Naquin. … Continue reading
CIA and the National Archives
The NYT describes the extent of the CIA’s inability to deal with transparency – mainly as a form of applying old methods to a new problem – …at the National Archives, documents have been disappearing since 1999 because intelligence officials … Continue reading
Blogosphere Size
MarketingVox – has some great graphs and stastics to go along with it – The blogosphere is doubling in size every six months and is now 60 times larger than it was three years ago, according to the latest quarterly … Continue reading
Jamestown and OSW
Jamestown stumbles across open source warfare (again) – An increasing series of similarities between the insurgency in Afghanistan and Iraq has caused concern that militants are learning from the ongoing insurgency in Iraq. But quickly reverts back to a dark … Continue reading
GG Business Face Off
LATimes article on independence from oil as a fuel source – …proponents believe the decades of inertia could be broken by a rare convergence of technology, money, political will and motivated motorists. The upside is this is a market primed … Continue reading