NIGHTWATCH Extract: Mexican Cartels Threaten Massacres

Mexico: For the record. Suspected members of the Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel warned that they would kill 135 people after security forces seized 134 tons of marijuana last week in Tijuana, Baja California state, Milenio reported today, 25 October. The warning was made over a police radio frequency late on 24 October reportedly minutes after …

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  Top commercial intelligence practitioners have long known that published experts can lead to unpublished experts without …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 …

My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence

Robert David Steele Serial pioneer, hacking humanity. – – – – – – – Posted: October 19, 2010 09:13 AM My Talk With Tom Atlee: Primer on Citizen Intelligence Click on Title to Read at Huffington Post and do Comments. On the left, asking these questions, Tom Atlee, co-founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute and author …