Stephen Marrin: Evaluating the Quality of Intelligence Analysis: By What (Mis) Measure? With Comment by Robert Steele

Stephen Marrin Post-revision draft18 July 2011. Original draft submitted to Intelligence and National Security on 4 February 2011. Accepted for publication on 24 May 2011 pending minor revision. Evaluating the Quality of Intelligence Analysis: By What (Mis) Measure?< Dr. Stephen Marrin is a Lecturer in the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University …

Jon Lebkowsky: Google News Boss on Trends in Online Access — Intelligence Producers Could Learn…

Richard Gingras at the International Symposium on Online Journalism The leader of Google News gave an insightful talk about the current state of online journalism. Here are my tweets during his keynote. Appreciated his visionary thinking about the state and future of news, especially the extent to which the concept of a “news story” is …

Search: organizational intelligence (third version)

The category bar (middle one) is a useful place to browse, especially All RECAPS (1) Searches/Directory (List) (1) Here are the two short–cuts to previous searches for the same term: Search: organizational intelligence Search: organizational intelligence 2.0 Searching for the terms today produces a very interesting range of postings. organizational intelligence Ultimately, there is a …

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Syria – Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence

Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet. Launched just a few weeks after the protests began one year ago, the crisis map is spearheaded by a just handful of US-based Syrian activists have meticulously and …

Reference: US Intelligence on Global Water Security

ODNI Releases Global Water Security ICA ICA_Global Water Security See Also: PDBWater (Winston Maiki, RIP – one man two-days) Reference: Future Water Wars A Summary Reference: WATER–Soul of the Earth, Mirror of Our Collective Souls Robert Steele: Global Trends 2030 – Gaps + RECAP  

Chuck Spinney: Without Intelligence or Integrity, Incestuous Amplication of Self-Referencing (Corrupt Idiocy) Assures Eventual Implosion

Sun Tzu or Bismarck: Who will Prevail in the 21st Century? [Note: this first appeared in Time’s Battleland Blog (here)],  The first three chapters in Sun Tzu’s timeless classic “The Art of War” describe how to make net assessments by comparing your strengths and weaknesses and those of your adversary and how to formulate strategy. Near …