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??
Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J T Johnson Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 2:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Subject: [FRIAM] US intelligence agencies "discover" blogs and wikis 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 ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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