The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
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Paul Adams: As I was listening to the 9/11 segment of the interview, you should know I just viewed a documentary where Larry Silverstein in front of a group of Jews, explained how in April 2000 – 17 months before 9/11 – he was reviewing the blueprints for the new WTC towers which were to be rebuilt, and on which construction did not start until 2002. Here's the clip. Action starts at 34:54
Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth
Posted: 03 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT
Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading through Social Media” explains some possible solutions on their radar.
When people play detective on Reddit and other social media sites with the goal of sharing information quickly as opposed to ensuring accuracy, false accusations can be made – such as the case with Sunil Tripathi. Researchers from Masdar Institute of Technology and the Qatar Computing Research Institute plan to launch Verily as a platform that could combat situations like that one.
The article states:
“Verily aims to enlist people in collecting and analyzing evidence to confirm or debunk reports. As an incentive, it will award reputation points—or dings—to its contributors. Verily will join services like Storyful that use various manual and technical means to fact-check viral information, and apps such as Swift River that, among other things, let people set up filters on social media to provide more weight to trusted users in the torrent of posts following major events.”
This will be an interesting sector to watch as there is a growing awareness of social media’s distortional lever.
Megan Feil, May 08, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Robert Steele on Open Source Intelligence in 2013
Beyond Search, April 4, 2013
Robert Steele has been a prescient thinker and actor in the intelligence sector for decades. In 1979 he was competitively selected to join the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine service. He spent nine years with the CIA, doing three tours overseas as a case officer recruiting and handling agents. In 1986, helped write the Marine Corps Master Intelligence Plan (MCMIP) as well as a plan for a Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIC). In the last 30 years, Mr. Steele has worked on a wide range of projects around the world.
In the interview which appeared in HighGainBlog, he said:
For all the money we spend on it, the secret world is not really providing the return on investment taxpayers should expect. Intelligence – decision support – is simply not being provided to everyone that needs it.
His views on the relationship of intelligence to decision support caught my attention as well. He said:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Robert Steele on Open Source Intelligence in 2013”
Which Vendor Will Be the Next Autonomy and Endeca?
At a recent search conference, I sat in the audience and marveled at the disconnect between the past that was and the present which is unfolding now. Several speakers dismissed the notions of precision and recall. In their place, the search wizards (who shall remain nameless) emphasized that search had to be “good enough.” The challenge, therefore, was to define “good enough.”
I sat quietly. At my advanced age I don’t have the energy to revisit the long and mostly disappointing trajectory of one of the most overhyped and misrepresented enterprise solutions—information retrieval. The list of companies which have spouted grandiose promises of universal information access, real time search, and actionable information reaches back to the early days of RECON and Orbit, STAIRS III, the long forgotten InQuire with its forward truncation, and Smart.
Where are these game changing vendors now?
The New Landscape of Search
Your free copy of “The New Landscape of Search” can be downloaded from: http://www.mediafire.
The document will be available for the next 30 days [from 1 July]
Phi Beta Iota: 150 pages. Stephen E. Arnold remains light years ahead of government and corporate observers. We continue to recommend The Google Trilogy, a set of deeply invasive works most governments and corporations have yet to grasp.
See Also:
Stephen E. Arnold: The New Landscape of Enterprise Search. A Critical Review of the Market and Search Systems. Published by Pandia, Oslo, Norway, 2011.
ISBN: 978-82-998676-0-3
The following enterprise search companies are covered in detail:
Autonomy
Endeca
Exalead
Google Search Solutions
Microsoft and Fast
Vivisimo
Phi Beta Iota: For over fifteen years Stephen E. Arnold has been the “virtual CTO” for OSS.Net (ceased operations at end of 2010) and Earth Intelligence Network, of which he is a founding partner. We have reviewed the 154-page document, and as with all publications by Stephen E. Arnold, author of the still-trenchant Google Trilogy, have found it to be deeply helpful including sharp but polite eviseration of both Google and Microsoft (Microsoft comes out ahead of Google, but has its own sucking chest wounds). What is clear to us is that none of the major vendors are serious about the necessary migration to open source software that integrates information sharing, multi-media analytics, cross-disciplinary directories, and deep web applications, for example, integrating c drives and emails across all poverty stakeholders. The big new trend in this book–and in our own research–is the compelling nature of five minute videos as documents of lasting value. We are seeing this in open education and non-government decision-support. Combine that with on demand translation and the way is open for someone to create the M4IS2 system of the future. We doubt it will be Google, and we are certain it will include OpenBTS for the three billion poor, the center of gravity for future knowledge.
The search term brings up appropriate results, but the fact of the search gives us an opportunity to provide comment.
1) Nothing now being used by governments, and certainly not iBase or Palantir, both aging technologies that do not scale and have too many fat-finger handicaps, fulfills the originial requirements documents crafted in the late 1980's.
Worth a Look: 1989 All-Source Fusion Analytic Workstation–The Four Requirements Documents
2) The ONLY programs that have gotten anywhere close are COPERNICUS plus plus, and SILOBREAKER. However, both of these have been slow to recognize the urgency of integrating–fully integrating–capabilities that address each of the eighteen functionalities. Below is the list of softwares now in use by US Special Operations Command J-23 Open Source Intelligence Branch along with the STRONG ANGEL TOOZL and a couple of other things.
Memorandum: USSOCOM Software List and STRONG ANGEL TOOZL
See also:
Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]
Worth a Look: Deep Web Multilingual Federated Search
1988-2009 OSINT-M4IS2 TECHINT Chronology
Worth a Look: Planetary Skin Data Sharing Initiative
Who’s Who in Librarian Intelligence: Arno Reuser
Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Mats Bjore
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Stephen E. Arnold
Journal: Dr. Dr. Dave Warner Shares…
Review: The Starfish and the Spider–The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Review: Innovation Happens Elsewhere–Open Source as Business Strategy
Journal: Google, the Cloud, Microsoft, & World Brain
Worth a Look: GeoChat (SMS Plotted on Map)
1998 Arnold (US) New Trends in Automated Intelligence Gathering Software
The global standard for multinational information-sharing and sense-making is in the process of being designed, funded, and distributed. If you think you have something relevant to that, generally only open source software will be considered, get in touch with any of the individuals above.
