September 2009 – Page 7 – Public Intelligence Blog

Under the direction of maestro Stephen E. Arnold, and in support of two extraordinary companies, Somat Engineering represented by its CEO, G “Ram” Ramanujam and it Washington DC Director Arpan Patel; and Adhere Solutions represented by its co-founder Jim Orris, a 15-slide 8-minute presentation was crafted to address Real Time Information and its injection into decision systems.

YouTube (8:19) CHANGE 2010 (National Press Club) Real-Time Intelligence

PPT: RTI Steele FINAL 15 Slides 8 Minutes

Prior Post of Full Event, Other Speakers: Event Report CORRECTED LINKS: Responding to Real Time Information, Open Systems and the Obama IT Vision [Google-Microsoft Meld]

2009/09/23

EUCOM Week in Review Ending 23 September 2009

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Hot Topics

AA: Ahmadinejad: Military will ‘cut off' hand of enemies 09/22/09

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AA: Hearings on Armenian-Turkish issue commence shortly 09/18/09

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AM: Armenia's President awarded military ranks 09/18/09

BG: War of words in Bulgarian judiciary escalates 09/21/09

DE: We need Germany far more than it needs us 09/22/09

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IL: No war imminent with Hezbollah, Israeli commander says 09/21/09

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RU: Kalashnikov faces bankruptcy 09/21/09

BELOW THE FOLD: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

Continue reading “EUCOM Week in Review Ending 23 September 2009”

2009/09/23

Event: 5 Dec 09 George Mason University, The Conscience Un-Conference

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What is this?
The Conscience Un-Conference is a one-day “un-conference” co-hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It will be held on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 8:30am to 5:30pm at the Museum in Washington, DC.

Who should apply for this free event (advance registration required)?
Anyone with energy and interest in how “institutions of conscience” use social media to serve missions of social good. We’re hoping for a diverse group of people with a range of experiences—that is, you don’t have to be an expert in museums, libraries, non-profits, or social media. Techie geeks, luddites and everyone in between are welcome to apply.

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Journal: The Afghanistan Impasse–Chuck Spinney Highlights NYT Review of Books

04 Inter-State Conflict, 10 Security, Military

The Afghanistan Impasse

By Ahmed Rashid New York Review of Books

Volume 56, Number 15 · October 8, 2009

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle Henry Holt, 254 pp., $25.00

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 300 pp., $25.95

Follow the Frog to the full article with Chuck Spinney's highlights, nine pages in an easily downloaded document.

Highlights as we read them:

1) Massiviely fraudulent election in Afghanistan;

2) Military situation going from bad to worse for US and the (virtually non-existent) Afghan Army and Police;

3) Pakistan keeping 80% of its troops on the border with India;

4) Pakistan refusing to rein in its one really disciplined jihadist group that keeps attacking India (Mumbia plus).

2009/09/23

Journal: Real-time Web keeps social networkers connected

Real Time

With this post we begin a new sub-set under Journal, for Real-Time and Near-Real-Time material. The other similar sub-set is focused on True Cost.

Full Story Online

Now, established companies and start-ups are scrambling to develop real-time Web applications for gaming, intuitive online searches, location services and customer support. The market potential is huge, tech analysts and others say.

Everything from cellphones to common digital cameras is “being turned into eyes and ears for applications,” says Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O'Reilly Media who is credited with inventing the term Web 2.0. “Data is being collected, presented and acted upon in real time. It's all about immediacy and instantaneous data.”

The need for speed

The need for data speed has inspired O'Reilly to come up with a new phrase, “Web squared,” to describe the evolution of the Web as we know and use it. O'Reilly and John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, coined it in a white paper preceding their Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco next month.

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Contributing Editor: Oso (Bear in Spanish)

Authors & Editors

Our contributing editor on ethics and government-contractor relations desires to remain anonymous.

With multiple graduate degrees across information science and arts, Oso is a veteran of the commercial intelligence sector. He eschews politics, but when asked, seeks the common sense answer most verifiable by real facts.

He reads broadly, especially poetry and fiction, but with a proper leavening of non-fiction and a special interest in religion and more recently, intelligence and counterintelligence as it pertains to religions specifically.

2009/09/22