Turkish-Kurdish Situation
Via Purpleslog- the latest happenings in the Kurdish conflict in Turkey-
A Kurdish guerrilla group declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its more than 20-year fight for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast, but said it would not immediately give up its weapons.
What’sNext
Cool collection of trends shaping the future. A lot of future thinking is off by insane amounts. A lot of this seems to be on or near target.
For example on Government, Politics & Public Services –
Tribalism. Historically, international relations have been based on relationships between nation states but this is changing. Many of the current conflicts are between groups inside states. Moreover, the very idea of the nation state is itself under threat from both above and below. Local issues are seen by many people as more important than national politics because at least they have a chance of influencing outcomes. This may lead to the re-birth of city states as national politics is squeezed between powerful multi-national corporate and NGO interests on the one hand and locally politicised individuals on the other.
Ross Mayfield And The Company
Mayfield discussed blogs and wikis with the CIA – and has some mildly interesting stuff to say –
The agency perhaps has the greatest to gain from adopting social software, but also has the greatest hard coded structural barriers (need to know) and a culture that reprimands against participation. Nevertheless, an Intellipedia and blogging at all levels in the organization is burgeoning. There is a shared understanding that these tools, with the right practices and change in culture could transform intelligence from a manufacturing model that delivers reports to a complex adaptive system where intelligence is a conversation with decision makers, an inherently counter spin.
…See Calvin Andrus’ “The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community.”
Also see posts by Eugene Kim, David Wienberger, JP and Mark Ohlert and Jay Cross…
Doesn’t sound like anything new was brought to the table, looks like they worked on the details of the system. Most of the big ideas have been on the table for quite some time. But it’s nice to see some symbolence of implementation.
FlashMacs
I think I’ll wait for flash based MacBooks.
TSA Overreaction
CNN – Not all that significant –
A Wisconsin man who wrote “Kip Hawley is an Idiot” on a plastic bag containing toiletries said he was detained at an airport security checkpoint for about 25 minutes before authorities concluded the statement was not a threat.
Screeners looked at the bag to “make sure it wasn’t anything like a bomb threat,” she said. She said the man was “a little combative” and that a law enforcement officer came over, briefly interviewed him and determined that he hadn’t broken any laws.
A spokeswoman for the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said the TSA did call the sheriff’s office to report an upset customer at the checkpoint. A deputy went to the scene, interviewed all of the participants, ran a wanted check on the man, and referred it back to the TSA after determining no crime had been committed, Deputy Darice Landon said.
But the important thing to note in the article is that no one has any idea as to what actually transpired. Therefore no one knows what to fix.