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Berto Jongman: Recommended on Networked Future

Networking for Progress Steven Johnson, Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age (Riverhead, 2012) In Future Perfect, bestselling author Steven Johnson (Everything Bad Is Good for You)declares himself a member of the new revolutionary party, the peer progressives. For the most part, it’s a quiet movement, steady, not inherently violent. The recent uprisings in Bahrain, Egypt, the Occupy …

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Rickard Falkvinge: New York Public Library versus Online “Piracy”

  The Pirate Bay is the World’s Most Efficient Public Library The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. One group has acquired over 50 million media …

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Search: leadership ethics + RECAP

ROBERT STEELE:  “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.”  For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.” 2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP Leadership ethics is a two part challenge.  Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often …

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2007 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic) 2.0

Now that everyone is paying attention, this is being posted in full text online in support of a larger M4IS2 / OSE dialog. Document:  Strategic OSINT (Chapter 6 in Strataegic Intelligence Vol 2) 10 MB Links added below throughout, updated where appropriate. See Also: 21st Century Intelligence Core References 2.0 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Robert …

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Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800 Short Persistent URL for This Post: http://tinyurl.com/UN-21-Intel DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012 I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have …

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Rickard Falkvinge: PayRight to Replace CopyRight?

PayRight: A CopyRight / Patent Reform Proposal to Make Piracy Obsolete Copyright and patent monopolies can be reformed to be less terrible, but in the long-term they need to be reformed into smithereens with a sledgehammer. Politically, this may be impossible. Practically, doing nothing to encourage creativity and innovation may not even be desirable. Erik …

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Patrick Meier: Rapidly Verifying Source Credibility on Twitter

Rapidly Verifying the Credibility of Information Sources on Twitter One of the advantages of working at QCRI is that I’m regularly exposed to peer-reviewed papers presented at top computing conferences. This is how I came across an initiative called “Seriously Rapid Source Review” or SRSR. As many iRevolution readers know, I’m very interested in information forensics …

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