Stephen E. Arnold: Microsoft Bing – Tits Up, No Milk + Microsoft @ PBI

Whither the Bing Thing in 2014? I found the data in the “2013 Bing Infographic” surprising. I continue to think of Bing as a search and retrieval system. I don’t use the system directly. I prefer to run queries on metasearch systems that use Bing as one source of content. The reason for my indirect …

Rickard Falkvinge: Today’s Technology Shift Has Parallels To When Universities Were Threatened By… Textbooks

Today’s Technology Shift Has Parallels To When Universities Were Threatened By… Textbooks Infopolicy – Henrik Brändén:  Today’s technology shift has many parallels with the arrivals of mass-printed books at universities. At the time, teachers at universities were horrified that the availability of books undermined their ability to charge students for reading aloud. There is something …

Welcome to the Memory Hole – Don’t Kill the Leaker, Just Make Their Leaked Information “Invisible”

Don’t kill the Leaker, Kill the Leaker’s Information The particularly nasty end of the spear of IC clandestine services, the part that kills people, may be out of a big part of their job thanks to technology, in the light of the terrifying but deeply interesting article by Peter Van Buren. They don’t don’t have …

Mini-Me: Palantir’s OSINT Demo + Palantir & All-Source Workstation Round-Up

Huh? OSINT Analysis of Sudan and South Sudan In this session, we will demonstrate how Palantir can draw from a plethora of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources (including academic research, blogs, news media, NGO reports and United Nations studies) to rapidly construct an understanding of the conflict underlying this somewhat anomalous 21st Century event. …