Wikileaks Round II (Iraq) Rolling Update 20101105

NOTICE: Within DoD, at least all elements of the Army as well as the Marine Corps Reserve have been given direct, unqualified, written orders not to access the Wikileaks site or read the Wikileaks document via any Government **OR** non-Government computer.  This Rolling Update complies with the DoD guidance. Friday 5 November 2010 WikiLeaks Incidents May …

Journal: Military Pay and Benefits–Three Solutions

As I See It — Fighting the Budget Shrug 2010/10/15 By Col. Steve Strobridge, USAF-Ret. A recent article in Christian Science Monitor on military health care costs identified, in microcosm, the battle we face in the coming years in defending the military community’s sunk investment in its future. After citing all DoD’s arguments that it’s …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Steven Aftergood

Steven Aftergood is a senior research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists. He directs the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which works to reduce the scope of government secrecy and to promote reform of official secrecy practices. He writes Secrecy News, an email newsletter (and blog) which reports on new developments in secrecy policy …

Reference: Science 2.0 by Ben Shneiderman

Click on Image to Enlarge Read Source Article, Science 2.0 (2008-07-03) Phi Beta Iota: Eugene Garfield gave us citation analysis via the Institute for Scientific Information, and Dick Klavans and company have given us the (fragmented) web of knowledge.  Top commercial intelligence practitioners have long known that published experts can lead to unpublished experts without …

Event: 3 Nov 2010 Webinar on Scale-Out Clouds

Service Providers Deploying Open Source Scale-Out Storage Wednesday, November 3, 2010 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT Businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and individual consumers are facing growing challenges in storing, managing, protecting and mining the explosion of data being generated in an increasingly digital world. Consider these trends: • Unstructured data is growing 60% year-over-year …

Reference: Citizen Initiative Review by Tom Atlee

The Citizen Initiative Review is a major development on the road to sustainability.  It should be supported and promoted by everyone involved with environmental, ecological, and sustainability issues.   Let me explain. 1.  INTELLIGENCE Think about what intelligence actually is and why it evolved in the first place.  Intelligence evolved because it helps us make …

Review: The Monk and the Riddle–The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

Down to Earth, Absorbing, Perfectly Presented, “Must Read” October 10, 2010 Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback I’m putting this book into the 6 Star and Beyond category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, for two reasons: it has a proper definition of what business should be about–creativity and humanity; and it strives to …