MILNET Headlines, 8 February 2010

American Commentary: America Rides off Into the Sunset American Commentary: Mr. President, Words Matter Big Dumb Government: Recession chugs on, except in government Big Dumb Government: U.S. to Form Climate-Change Agency Cyber-Security: Open Security Foundation – State of the Union 2010 Cyber-Security: Zeus Attack Spoofs NSA, Targets .gov and .mil Foreign Affairs: China Growls At …

Event: 22-23 Feb 10 Houston TX Oil and Gas Security

Global Asset Security: Oil and Gas 2010 22 and 23 February 2010, Houston, Texas Maximizing the defense of infrastructure, personnel and intellectual property in a landscape of evolving threat In a constantly evolving threat landscape the role of your security operations must constantly adapt to meet changing economic, geo-political, criminal and homeland security challenges. As …

Review: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons–From Theory to Practice

Almost a Three–Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus November 29, 2009 Charlotte Hess An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the “inter-disciplinary” work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in …

Review: Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail

Six Star Special September 20, 2009 Paul Polack This book is a “beyond five stars” book and will be so rated at Phi Beta Iota, the Public Intelligence Blog where I can do things Amazon does not provide for, including reader access to my 1400+ non-fiction reviews via any of 100 different categories. This single …

2009 Arnold Google: The Digital Gutenberg

Robert Steele, the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, considers Stephen E. Arnold to be the single most professional analyst of emerging information technologies and their social meaning.  His “Google Triology” may well be the most significant body of work of practical significance not just to the information industry, but to civil liberties, capitalism, civil society, …