Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3839 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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September 11, 2009 7:10 AM PDT

Microsoft sets up open-source foundation

Microsoft has created the nonprofit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open-source communities and software companies.

Citing an under-representation of commercial software companies and their employees in open source, the CodePlex Foundation aims to work with particular projects to bridge the gap between the open-source and commercial worlds.

The Redmond giant has contributed $1 million to the foundation and has filled out its board and advisory panel with many Microsoft staffers, including Sam Ramji, who is leaving Microsoft as its open-source point man but is also becoming CodePlex Foundation's interim president.

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Journal: 9-11 Ideas for Further Public Investigation

09 Terrorism, 9-11 Truth Books & DVDs, Ethics, Government, History, Law Enforcement, Media, Military

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A colleague who has reflected on 9-11 offers up the following for futher investigation by citizen-journalists:

Core 9/11 relations to integrity & transparency:

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2009/09/12

Worth A Look: AP Slideshow World Beauty

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The full moon rises behind The 1930 art deco sculpture ‘Spirit of Progress' on the top of the former Montgomery Wards office building in Chicago, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Tip of the Hat to Associated Press for this offering, click on the first slide above to see the other 46 slides.

2009/09/11

Worth a Look: Strategic Change Mangement

Worth A Look

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We like this. Worth a look.

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Journal: Drones versus Pioneers–Defining the Finish Line

04 Education, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence

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A foolish article about a foolish survey about a foolish educational system captures all that is wrong with America today. The best and the brightest become hackers and self-directed pioneers (Richard Stahlman is the most righteous, Bill Gates the most obvious). The “well-behaved” are the ones that cross “the finish line” because they do not question authority and they actually believe that 18-25 years of rote education and extended childhood is good for them.

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2009/09/102009/09/11

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags a Brave Journalist & Troops in a No-Win Afghan Dogfight

05 Civil War, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, Military

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Up Close and Personal: Portrait of an Afghan Firefight

Chuck Spinney in CounterPunch

Landay documents only a single firefight, but his description of it suggests some troubling questions that put the entire efficacy of our military's new counter-guerrilla strategy into sharper relief.

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