Robert Steele: Open Source Governance – Creating a Prosperous World at Peace

Open Source Governance: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Robert Steele, Open Source Observatory (European Union), 23 May 2016 Open source solutions – primarily in software but increasingly also in hardware – cost roughly one tenth of proprietary offerings. The switch to open source software enables financial and public service scalability as well as quality …

Stephen E. Arnold: Advertising Revenue Collapsing, Will Google Collapse Also?

Dissing the GOOG: After 15 Years, the Halo Tarnishes From my perspective, the search giant turned Leonardo can envision with the best mankind has offered. The challenge seems to be finding a way to keep the online advertising machine pumping money. I read “Is the Online Advertising Bubble Finally Starting to Pop?” This is an …

Stephen E. Arnold: An Open Source Search Engine to Experiment With

An Open Source Search Engine to Experiment With Apache Lucene receives the most headlines when it comes to discussion about open source search software.  My RSS feed pulled up another open source search engine that shows promise in being a decent piece of software.  Open Semantic Search is free software that cane be uses for …

Worth a Look: Colin Ehren, Scotland Yard SO-11 Retired, Offering Internet Investigative Tradecraft Training and More….

Internet Investigation Tradecraft A comprehensive 3 Day Workshop designed to give delegates the skills and knowledge required to perform an Internet Investigation or Intelligence Operation The ability to identify and retrieve relevant and timely information, intelligence or evidence from the Internet and Open Sources has become a routine necessity for Investigators. However, the structure and …