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Review: The Nazi Hydra in America – Suppressed History of a Century

Glen Yeadon 4.0 out of 5 stars Lacks Visualization and Genealogy, A Good Start,March 3, 2012 I eagerly anticipated receipt of this book, but when it arrived I had two immediate reactions: 01) A serious work that offers new information about American corporations betraying the public interest; and 02) Totally lacking in visualizations and “trees” …

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Patrick Meier: Trails of Digital Trustworthness

Trails of Trustworthiness in Real-Time Streams Real-time information channels like Twitter, Facebook and Google have created cascades of information that are becoming increasingly challenging to navigate. “Smart-filters” alone are not the solution since they won’t necessarily help us determine the quality and trustworthiness of the information we receive. I’ve been studying this challenge ever since the …

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2013: The Evolving Craft of Intelligence 3.6 As Published

The Evolving Craft of Intelligence [Version 3.1] Robert David Steele There is little desire in the developed intelligence nations to see the craft of intelligence evolve in line with the revolutions in information technology and globalization. Indeed, it can safely be said that most leaders with access to intelligence services do not value them—they are …

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Review: Too Big to Know – Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

David Weinberger 5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Enough to Shake the Most Obtuse Leaders, February 10, 2012 First the disclosures. I asked for a copy of this book to review, David Weinberger being one of my heroes and I being unemployed at this time. They gave it to me and now that I have …

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Robert Steele: Intelligent Management of Intelligence Agencies, and the New Craft of Intelligence

I have begun drafting my portion of the new Handbook of Intelligence Studies (Routledge, 2013), it is a chapter early on entitled “The Craft of Intelligence.”  I pick up where Allen Dulles and Sherman Kent left off.  My graphic on Intelligence Maturity captures the essence of my thinking at the strategic level, but of course …

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Howard Rheingold: Critical Thinking vs. Information Literacy

Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? John M Weiner Abstract This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy].  The two phrases are shown in brackets to indicate that the two words involved in each …

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