The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Plowing Up Astroturf I received an interesting bit of commission work earlier today – would I help someone plow up a bunch of astroturf. It sounded like an interesting test of my expanding social network analysis skills, so I agreed to take on the task. I was given a list of six Twitter accounts. One had …
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Yesterday after I posted Exploring e-International Relations I kept digging. I visited the LinkedIn profiles I had and found half a dozen additional people by using the “also viewed” column on the right. One of them responded to my request to connect, so I should be able to see the whole group fairly soon. Having …
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MEDIA Catches Up: As many as 15 dead, 160 wounded in Texas fertilizer plant blast “It was like a nuclear bomb went off,” Muska said. “Big old mushroom cloud.” West, Texas Fertilizer Explosion Explained I posted Massive Fertilizer Explosion In West, Texas around 10:21 local time for the plant. That was a rush job, this is …
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Wikistrat Investigation Summary Having had some success in domestic policy decision making, with Progressive Congress News being the final result, I thought I would see if there was anything that needed doing in the realm of foreign policy. Wikistrat, [allegedly] the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Online Consultancy (MMOC), was something that was immediately visible once I …
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Individual Reputation Metrics, Long Term Implications Just over four years ago I wrote my first article about Twitter and not long after that I created my first Twitter ‘program’ – a single line unix curl command placed in cron. The command executed at the top of every hour, posting the same tweet. Things have come a …
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Afghanistan: Coalition Casualties, Opium Poppies & Drone Strikes Funding The Syrian Insurgency was written almost five months ago and it references a 2006 paper by economist Paul Coller, Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and their Implications for Policy. Summarizing to a single sentence, insurgencies market themselves to claim moral high ground, but they always have an …
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Exploring e-International Relations When I was checking out the Think Tanks & Civil Societies Program I noticed e-International Relations – the world’s leading website for students of international politics. They had an About page similar to that of Wikistrat, listing all of their volunteer editors and some additional information on them. Last night I entered most …
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