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 …

Mini-Me: US Air Force Unconstitutional? Justice Scalia Leads Majority Opinion — Could the Department of Homeland Security Also Be Unconstitutional? Plus ANON 1 Comment

Huh? In Stunning 5-4 Decision, Supreme Court Declares Air Force Unconstitutional WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a shocking decision, declared the U.S. Air Force unconstitutional earlier today. EXTRACT: After receiving briefs and hearing oral arguments, the Court retired for deliberations. After three months, the Justices announced their decision. The Air Force cannot constitutionally …

Stephen E. Arnold: Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth

Because Tweets Are Not Always the Truth Posted: 03 May 2013 04:41 PM PDT Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading …

Chuck Spinney & Philip Giraldi: CIA Drones for Corrupt Regimes

Note that in addition to propping up Quisling centers at expense of the tribal periphery, we  will be fanning the fires of the sectarian warfare and killing gobs of innocents with more signature strikes (note dependency on “technical collection”). Drones for “Regime Protection” The CIA’s insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki—and what it means for …

Tom Atlee: Blog Has Moved

Dear friends, Twitter has closed down Posterous.com, the former host of my blog “Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge”. We decided to  make this problem into an opportunity.  So Co-Intelligence Institute board member John Abbe and I have moved my blog to a new site where it has its own memorable domain name: http://www.tomatleeblog.com/ I …