The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATED 29 May 2011 to add top-level link: Seven Promises to America–Who Will Do This? Robert David Steele Recovering spy, serial pioneer for open and public intelligence Posted: September 30, 2010 09:41 AM Virtual President Announces Coalition Cabinet Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and/or Comment. My fellow Americans, I am honored to …
Continue reading “Virtual President Announces Coalition Cabinet”
It’s About Context, Business Ecosystems, and IT Impact September 18, 2010 Ric Merrifield I bought this book on the recommendation of a colleague whom I have known for twenty years, both of us members of the Silicon Valley Hackers Conference started by Stewart Brand and now managed by Glen Tenney. When I came to buy …
Continue reading “Review: Rethink–A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation”
Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief Six months into his new job, Jeffrey Jaffe, Chief Executive Officer of the World Wide Web Consortium has his work cut out The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. …
Continue reading “Journal: Consortium Seeking Multilingual Web Standards”
Strike Two on “Just Following Orders” Defense David Isenberg Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq Posted: September 9, 2010 04:28 PM To paraphrase Yogi Berra it’s déjà vu all over again for KBR. In my Aug. 31 post I wrote about a significant pro-veteran ruling in the Oregon KBR Qarmat Ali litigation. This …
Continue reading “Journal: Contractors Accountable for Toxic Results”
The author was “ordered home” within 24 hours (took three days to get him out). Multiple commentaries suggest that he is actually “understated” in his remarks. Below the line is balance of article, Small Wars Journal intelligence commentary, and link to illustrated blog with added value. EDIT of 7 Sep 2010 to add comment from …
Continue reading “Journal: Cognitive Dissonance in Afghanistan”
OSINT Conference veterans will remember 1997 Pinchot (US) Beyond Bureaucracy: The Rise of the Intelligence Organization. The book, still relevant, is End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization. Holacracy is new to us, and for that we thank the searcher. While we are skeptical of any single solution, and have spent the …
In a class by itself, more to be done August 29, 2010 Steven Solomon This book is in a class by itself, and for the US audience, I would recommend The Atlas of Water, Second Edition: Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource, this book, and Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America’s Fresh …
Continue reading “Review: Water–The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization”
