Robin Good: Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process

Content Curation as a Problem-Solving, Re-Assembling and Stewardship Process Ibrar Bhatt, shares some of the insights he has been been able to discover in his research work for his forthcoming PhD thesis (“A sociomaterial account of assignment writing in Further Education classrooms”) for the University of Leeds. In his short blog analysis he first comprehensively …

Mini-Me: Special Russian (Truth) – US (Lies) – Ukraine (Atrocity Central) SitRep + Ukraine RECAP

Huh? SPECIAL RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 23 July 2014 I’ve been doing these Sitreps for 14 years; I have never done a special before. But I have never felt that we were close to war before either. To go to war is bad enough, but to go to war over lies… RUSSIAN MILITARY BRIEFING. The key …

Chuck Spinney: Saudi Arabia Funding of Islamic State

This is an informative and important report written by one of the best reporters covering events in the Middle East.  I reformatted it slightly and highlighted it to emphasize points I think are important.  If you find this distracting, this link will take readers to the original. Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of …

Jean Lievens: WISE – Global Platform for Innovators in Education

WISE: The Global Platform For Innovators In Education Rahim Kanani Forbes, 5 July 2013 “Many projects around the world provide solutions in local contexts.  It is our mission to showcase these achievements, and to bring committed but often isolated innovators, their ideas and creative solutions to the greater community,” explained Stavros Yiannouka, CEO of the World …

2014 INTERVIEW: Thoughts on Open Source Intelligence

Out of Band: Robert David Steele on OSINT Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas sent questions, here are my answers. Hal Burghel: Tell us about open source generally and open source intelligence specifically. Robert David Steele: It’s vital to remember that the whole point of connectivity is to move and make sense of content, …

2014 Robert Steele On Defense Intelligence – Seven Strikes

On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes I consider defense intelligence today to be incoherent and ineffective. It has no grasp of the totality of the threat; it is largely worthless in providing SecDef with evidence-based decision support relevant to strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations; and it does not help DoD within the Cabinet when decision-support is …

Berto Jongman: Drone Report — No Thinking, Too Much Secrecy, War Without End …

Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report Mark Mazzetti New York Times, 26 June 2014 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s embrace of targeted killings using armed drones risks putting the United States on a “slippery slope” into perpetual war and sets a dangerous precedent for lethal operations that …