Robert Steele: Going Dark, Anyone Wants to Talk Future of Intelligence, Seeking ONE Audience

My Body Mass Index (BMI) is where it needs to be, hoping to go dark in near term (30-45 days).  Anyone that wants to talk new and evolving craft of intelligence, Open Source Everything (OSE), and M4IS2, now is the time.  Particularly interested in engaging on the below new briefing that was developed as combined …

Jaron Lanier: Digital Maoism [Mob-Sourcing]

“Digital Maoism” (2006) In his online essay “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism”, in Edge magazine in May 2006, Lanier criticized the sometimes-claimed omniscience of collective wisdom (including examples such as the Wikipedia article about himself), describing it as “digital Maoism“.[11] He writes “If we start to believe that the Internet itself …

Stephen E. Arnold: A Fresh Look at Big Data & Big Data (-) Human Factor (+) Transformation (+) RECAP

A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …

Berto Jongman: Syrian Electronic Army Does Hard Cyber (Kinetic Effect) Attack on Israel — or Russia Being Clever? Or Both?

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel’s Main Infrastructure Control System (SCADA) Submitted by siavash on Wed, 05/08/2013 – 16:53 Cyberwarzone The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the operation of the servers in charge of urban management systems …

Berto Jongman: The Sigularity of Fools

The Singularity of Fools A special report from the utopian future. David Rieff Foreign Policy, May/June 2013 EXTRACT Even comparative moderates in the futurological sweepstakes tend to swoon when the subject is the pace of technology-led change. Ethan Zuckerman, director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, argues in his new book, Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in …