Diebold In Maryland
Someone leaked the original report on voting machines in Maryland. This one weighs in at 200 pages, while the original was a measly 38.
The reason? Diebold browbeat the state to allow it to edit out any “proprietary information” and did not allow any source code access.
Scrubbing Reputations
These guys offer to clean up your online reputation (or protect your children) by simply strong arming sites to delete your content (no word on caches though).
The right way to go about doing this is not confronting site owners. Instead the correct approach is to reward “friendly” sites with more traffic and links. The goal should be to make the first 3-10 pages of Google results positive results regarding the individual in question. In doing so everything else is relegated the rest to the other 25 pages of results.
It’s a rough method, but it’s more likely to work than simply threatening site owners.
Robert Gates
Things to remember:
Gates was a career analyst.
While Deputy Director under Casey he came under fire for politicizing analysis.
Knee deep in Iran-Contra.
His tenure as CIA Chief was during the revolving door period of the early 90s.
The DO spiraled down the drain during that time period.
Also:
Ever since Robert Gates, as deputy director of intelligence, reorganized the Directorate of Intelligence in the early 1980s, it has been rare for an analyst to spend more than a few years working on one country. Promotions, especially promotions to managerial grades, come more quickly to generalists who have covered several areas. Sitting in six-by-six, usually windowless, cubicles, and confronted daily with demands for short-order “finished” intelligence, analysts rarely have the desire to sacrifice their careers by slowly building the skills that give uncommon insight into foreign countries.
How Not To Get On TechCrunch
Kawasaki interviews Arrington of TechCrunch as to how to get on the site –
4. Speaking of bull shiitake, specifically don’t use descriptions such as “revolutionary,” “Web 2.0,” “huge,” “change the way you’ll use the Internet,” and “disruptive.” This is what Mike calls “cheap adjectives,” and they are kisses of death in Michael’s eyes.
I thought TechCrunch was built entirely on those terms and adjectives.