DefDog: Counter-IED Network Analysis – Works for Law Enforcement, Ignored by US Military

When we worked on the Manhunting Project for SOCOM, the US Marshall’s Service said that fugitive hunting was all about network analysis. The IC doesn’t understand network analysis as the bean counters push for numbers….they focus on low hanging fruit and as a result there is always some guy out there ready to step up …

James Wall: Israel to Palestine is as Britain to Slavery – “Throw Their Dirty Little Ships Out of the Water” — Tide Turning Against Israeli Atrocities

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Veterans Today “Throw Their Dirty, Filthy Ships Out of the Water!” Historical parallels are never exact. But it is not unusual for us to see moments from the past resonating with moments of the present. by James M Wall About the author: James M. Wall is currently a Contributing …

Jon Lebkowsky: Google News Boss on Trends in Online Access — Intelligence Producers Could Learn…

Richard Gingras at the International Symposium on Online Journalism The leader of Google News gave an insightful talk about the current state of online journalism. Here are my tweets during his keynote. Appreciated his visionary thinking about the state and future of news, especially the extent to which the concept of a “news story” is …

Patrick Meier: Building Egypt 2.0: When Institutions Fail, Crowdsourcing Surges

Building Egypt 2.0: When Institutions Fail, Crowdsourcing Surges I recently presented at Where 2.0 and had the chance to catch Adel Youssef’s excellent talk on “How Location Based Services is Used to Build Egypt 2.0.” He shared some important gems on digital activism. For example, while Facebook allowed Egyptians to “like” a protest event or …

Yoda: Real-Time Crowd-Sourcing + Twitter Meta-RECAP

How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …

DefDog: UK Guardian Does a Series on the Internet

Day one: the new cold war China’s censors tested by microbloggers who keep one step ahead of state media Inside Washington’s high risk mission to beat web censors Nervous Kremlin seeks to purge Russia’s internet of ‘western’ influences How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR’s shadow to become an internet titan COMMENT: The real threat …