Review: Among the Truthers — A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground

Jonathan Kay Shallow, Scribbler Who Ignored the Books and DVDs, May 23, 2011 I came to this page asking myself if three stars would be too hard on this author and what has proven to be a disturbing amount of garbage. The other reviews kept me at three, I was toying with two stars. When …

Advanced Cyber/IO: Knowledge Integration

Phi Beta Iota: It has become evident that this integrative post is needed.  It should be obvious–but evidently it is not–that both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information Sharing and Sense-Making (M4IS2) are inherently integrating by nature.  Both are the anti-thesis to “Rule by Secrecy” and the Weberian concept of stove-piped …

Journal: Cheery Waves Flags How Supercomputers Alter Science

Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science By JOHN MARKOFF New York Times, April 25, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen. The hovering sensation gives way to vertigo as the camera dives deeper into the forest, approaches …

Ayn Rand in the 21st Century–M4IS2 Bottom-Up, Liberation Technology, and Open Everything

Ayn Rand is back.  Between my persistent search for a home for the Open Source Agency and the related Multinational Decision-Support Centre and World Brain Institute (with Global Game), I read and visit with smart people. As most know, the global fight that I have led since 1988 for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has evolved …