Stephen E. Arnold: New Book, Dark Web Notebook, For Official Use Only

The book is $49 (gov/mil) and verified contractors (com, org). It can only be ordered via darkwebnotebook@yandex.com. The book is, at this time, not available to anyone outside the LE, intel, and security community. I will verify each purchase because the book equips a smart 15 year old to set up a Dark Web business …

Stephen E. Arnold: The Dawn of Alexa — Open House Open Life in Ways No One Has Imagined Yet…

Bradley Metrock and the Alexa Conference: Alexa As a Game Changer for Search and Publishing Bradley Metrock, Score Publishing, organized The Alexa Conference held in January 2017. More than 60 attendees shared technical and business insights about Amazon’s voice-search enabled device. The conference recognized the opportunity Amazon’s innovative product represents. Keyword search traditionally has been …

Stephen E. Arnold: Clouds Costs Out of Control

Costs of the Cloud The cloud was supposed to save organizations a bundle on servers, but now we learn from Datamation that “Enterprises Struggle with Managing Cloud Costs.” The article cites a recent report from Dimensional Research and cloud-financial-management firm Cloud Cruiser, which tells us, for one thing, that 92 percent of organizations surveyed now …

Stephen E. Arnold: US Government’s Flawed Content Management Procurement

Phi Beta Iota: Above is our editorial title. The author’s original title is below. What Content Management Systems Ring the Chimes of US Government Procurement Teams? The answer to this question does not require a consultant in content management or, as the insiders term it, CMS. Navigate to Digital Gov’s run down. The list is, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Marketing Assertions — Legal Lies?

Lousy Backlog? Sell with Interesting Assertions. If you are struggling to fill the sales pipeline, you will feel some pressure. If you really need to make sales, marketing collateral may be an easy weapon to seize. I read “Examples of False Claims about Self-Service Analytics.” The write up singles out interesting sales assertions and offers …