Worth a Look: Books on Open Source

2013 Bazzell, Michael (2013).  Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information.  CreateSpace. 4.0 out of 5 stars A Useful Contribution–See the Table of Contents January 30, 2013 Garbutt, John (2013). Building an OpenStack Cloud: From zero to the cloud with open source technologies.  O’Reilly Media. Publication Date: August 22, 2013 There …

Review (Guest): The Squandered Computer: Evaluating the Business Alignment of Information Technologies

Paul Strassmann 5.0 out of 5 stars Deserves careful study–a powerful message about technology March 4, 1999 By Lou Agosta (lagosta@21stcentury.net) The main targets for Paul Strassmann’s unmasking of misconceptions about the business use of computers include the Gartner Group, advocates of Best Practices, and that mouth piece of computing vendors, the computing trade press …

CIA’s CTO Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ — And a Few Things Most CTOs Do Not Compute

CIA’s Gus Hunt On Big Data: We ‘Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever’ NEW YORK — The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. VIDEO 28:30 Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO …

Patrick Meier: A Research Framework for Next Generation Humanitarian Technology and Innovation

A Research Framework for Next Generation Humanitarian Technology and Innovation Humanitarian donors and organizations are increasingly championing innovation and the use of new technologies for humanitarian response. DfID, for example, is committed to using “innovative techniques and technologies more routinely in humanitarian response” (2011). In a more recent strategy paper, DfID confirmed that it would “continue …

Penguin: The CIA About To Sign $600 Million Deal With Amazon — Six Years After Robert Steele Proposed Amazon as the Hub for (an Open) World Brain

Have no idea what this means: The CIA Is About To Sign A Game-Changing $600 Million Deal With Amazon The CIA is on the verge of signing a cloud computing contract with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years, reports Frank Konkel at Federal Computer Week. If the details about this deal are true, it …

Reference: DNI Global Threat Testimony 2013

2013-03-12 DNI to SSCI Threat Assessment HIGHLIGHTS: Recognizes how quickly and radically the world — and our threat environment — are changing. “This environment is demanding reevaluations of the way we do business, expanding our analytic envelope, and altering the vocabulary of intellignece.  Threats are more diverse, interconnected, and viral than at any other time …