[FRIAM] US intelligence agencies "discover" blogs and wikis

[Phil Henshaw]

Blogs are just gossip unless the contributors are observant and
self-critical, wiki's likewise.    Seen much of that lately??   The
problem with figuring out who's right is that everyone is right, from a
different perspective, a necessary insight for getting any whole
picture.    Seen anyone openly discuss our problems that way lately??
Almost all the eventfulness in nature is produced by natural systems
with decentralized organization.    Know anyone who has asked for a
rigorous method for observing how they work lately??
 

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Interesting piece in the NYTimes (4 Dec 2006) that highlights a major
problem for the U.S. intelligence agencies (and, one might suppose, all
intelligence agencies) in that they can't communicate with each other.  

Not that all bureaucrats WANT to share data, and therein lies the
problem.  Still, some folks in the system see the value in decentralized
intelligence gathering.

Open Source Spying
The nation's intelligence agencies are giving their cold-war-era
computer systems a makeover. But will blogs and wikis really help spies
uncover terrorist plots?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html

-- TJ

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