Nova Spivack: Rise of Chief Analytic Officers

Why BI’s shift to stream intelligence is a top priority for CAOs EXTRACT In fact, organizations that have prioritized real-time data are outpacing all others, according to Aberdeen Group. Companies that are competent across volume, variety, and velocity alike have seen 26 percent growth in their pipelines, 15 percent increase in cash generated, and 67 …

Mongoose: Classifying History for the Wrong Reasons — the Dangers of Secrecy as an Enabler of Inadvertent Nuclear War

[UK] Security chiefs block release of report on 1983 Soviet nuclear scare Security chiefs are trying to block the release of documents that would shed fresh light on how Britain and the US came close to provoking a Soviet nuclear attack. They are insisting that a report, The Detection of Soviet Preparations for War Against …

Richard Gage: 9/11 Letter to the Editor (Boston Globe)

Evidence still raises questions over World Trade Center collapses Alex Beam’s portrayal of “architect truthers” is yet another disappointing example of a journalist resorting to ad hominem attacks and avoiding the facts when discussing the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001 (“The ‘truthers’ and 9/11,” Opinion, Nov. 16).   . …

Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Daniel Araya: Interview with Robert Steele on the Open Source Revolution

Interview: Former CIA Officer Robert Steele Discusses Why We Need an Open Source Revolution 全文下面的折疊對於那些使用谷歌翻譯。 Полный текст ниже раза для тех, кто использует Google Translate.  النص الكامل بالأسفل أضعاف عن تلك التي تستخدم مترجم جوجل. Textul complet partea inferioară a paginii pentru cei care folosesc Google Translate.