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Administration Considers a Post for
Intelligence
Administration Considers a Post for
Intelligence
04/15/2004 10:19 PMThe White House is weighing whether to create a powerful new post of
director of national intelligence, officials said.
Wall Nuts - The wall between
intelligence and law enforcement is
killing us. By Stewart Baker
Wall Nuts - The wall between
intelligence and law enforcement is
killing us. By Stewart Baker
01/03/2004 07:05 AMthis Jurisprudence essay .. Click
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Microsoft Joins Child Safety Advocates,
Law Enforcement for Fourth Global Law
Enforcement Training in Paarl, South
Africa
Microsoft Joins Child Safety Advocates,
Law Enforcement for Fourth Global Law
Enforcement Training in Paarl, South
Africa
09/06/2004 08:10 PMTo address the growing problem of children's safety on the Internet
around the world, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited
Children, Interpol and Microsoft Corp. continue their series of
international training programs for law enforcement personnel who
investigate computer-facilitated crimes against children this week in
Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.
Whuffie's mathematical failings
Whuffie's mathematical failings
08/22/2004 07:30 AMCory Doctorow: Interesting paper evaluates the
mathematical flaws in reputation systems: if the right thing to do
would seem suspicious, then reputation systems encourage you to do the
wrong thing, to enhance your reputation.
Recall that an action is vulnerable to a temptation if when the
short-run players participate, the temptation lowers the probability
of all bad signals, and increases the probability of all others. In
this case the bad reputation result requires the exit minmax
condition, as demonstrated by the example in Section 4.4. Notice,
however, that in the example the relative probability of g and r is
changed by the temptation. If the temptation satisfies the stronger
property that the relative probability of the other signals remains
constant, then we can weaken the assumption of exit minmax. In this
section we develop this result, and give an application to games with
two actions.
(If the math is too dense, there's a good lay explanation
here)
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Nursery failings revealed by BBC
Nursery failings revealed by BBC
08/12/2004 02:46 AMAn undercover reporter finds worrying departures from good practice in
Ofsted-inspected private nurseries.
Megawati apologises for failings
Megawati apologises for failings
09/23/2004 04:37 AMIndonesia's President Megawati asks 'forgiveness for shortcomings', as
she heads for election defeat.
NHS failings hit superbug fight
NHS failings hit superbug fight
07/13/2004 07:00 PMA lack of monitoring means the NHS does not know how many patients are
infected - and killed - by hospital superbugs.
Aznar admits Madrid failings
Aznar admits Madrid failings
05/03/2004 10:18 PMThe former Spanish prime minister admits underestimating the threat
from Islamic militants.
Failings in toddler rape bid case
Failings in toddler rape bid case
04/18/2005 08:30 AMAn inquiry identifies "systemic weaknesses" in the handling of a sex
offender who tried to rape a toddler on release from jail.
Collaboration Software's Failings, and
Potential
Collaboration Software's Failings, and
Potential
04/12/2004 12:51 PMEugene Eric Kim: A Manifesto for
Collaborative Tools. This essay is a manifesto about software
for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the
current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and
must do about it.
Decentralized Intelligence - What Toyota
can teach the 9/11 commission about
intelligence gathering. By Duncan Watts
Decentralized Intelligence - What Toyota
can teach the 9/11 commission about
intelligence gathering. By Duncan Watts
08/06/2004 03:03 PMCentralized intelligence won’t help us .. very nice appeal ..
Duncan Watts .. From Slate
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"Report on the Intelligence Community's
Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq,
Ordered reported on July 7, 2004"
"Report on the Intelligence Community's
Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq,
Ordered reported on July 7, 2004"
07/11/2004 09:57 PMReport on the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Prewar Intelligence
Assessments on Iraq
Report on the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Prewar Intelligence
Assessments on Iraq
07/10/2004 02:34 PMrapport .. pdf
intelligence.senate.gov/iraqreport2.pdf
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Decentralized Intelligence: What Toyota
can teach the 9/11 commission about
intelligence gathering
Decentralized Intelligence: What Toyota
can teach the 9/11 commission about
intelligence gathering
08/08/2004 12:02 AMslate.com/Default.aspx?id=2104808
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overlook George’s … human
failings
overlook George’s … human
failings
06/11/2004 05:02 AMtinyurl.com/3efkp
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Edward Leigh MP: statement on failings
of Criminal Records Bureau IT
Edward Leigh MP: statement on failings
of Criminal Records Bureau IT
02/12/2004 04:08 AMPublicTechnology.net Feb 12 2004 8:06AM GMT
Bank of Ireland fined over anti-money
laundering failings
Bank of Ireland fined over anti-money
laundering failings
09/03/2004 06:18 AMInfomaticsonline.co.uk - Fri Sep 3, 09:11 am GMT
On "Creative Communities"
On "Creative Communities"
05/07/2004 12:08 PMJoe Buck commented on one of my earlier posts that when we (or I) use
phrases like "creative communities" we tend to slight coders. "Besides
the fact that a lot of geeks resent it, it builds unnecessary walls.
Many on Jack Valenti’s side of the divide treasure their creative
freedom and fight like dogs against any who would block it," Buck
writes.
I could not agree more. I guess I assume too easily that when we
discuss copyright, Free Culture, and creativity, we are discussing the
vast array of human creative activities. And I assume (perhaps
incorrectly) that my audiences see creativity flowing over arbitrary
barriers as I do. After all, "convergence" is not just a marketing or
engineering concept. It is the essense of stunning creativity, whether
embodied in a Picasso sculpture, a Mozart opera, or a phat video game.
So I guess we need to make this point more overtly. After all, as Buck
points out, each sub-audience of creators (musicians, composers,
screenwriters, directors, hackers, coders, photographers) tend to see
these issues in their local contexts -- "how does Kelly v. Arriba
affect me?"
When I speak publicly, I try to get musicians, for instance, to see
that Alice Randall's experience with getting The Wind Done Gone
published is something they might have to experience themselves. And
that as cultural citizens, they should be concerned about her
experience anyway.
BTW, in
The Anarchist in the Library, I make the case that the
appeals court had to cheat to get The Wind Done Gone published. It is
not a parody of Gone with the Wind. It is a transformative work that
should have been allowed on those grounds. But the court was not
willing to move beyond the narrowest reading of Campbell v. Acuff
Rose. So we are stuck trying to force non-parodies into parodic
costumes just to avoid prior restraint.
eWebTalk – The Next Generation of Web
Communities
eWebTalk – The Next Generation of Web
Communities
01/04/2005 04:14 AMeWebTalk began in 2004 by two individuals seeking to create a place in
which webmasters can meet, discuss, and share knowledge through a
community where everyone is welcomed. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]
Lycos Communities disbanded
Lycos Communities disbanded
01/26/2004 02:58 PMLycos US calls time on chat service
Lycos Discontinues Communities
Lycos Discontinues Communities
01/26/2004 07:38 PMThe once mighty search engine power house, gives the high maintenance
clubs the boot.
Huge Gated Communities
Huge Gated Communities
12/25/2004 05:20 PM
Are these huge
gated communities OUR urban future? Enormous gated communities in
Latin America - complete with schools, clinics, and a wide array of
recreational possibilities - are now
billing themselves as Latin America's best example of New Urbanism.
Accidental Online Communities
Accidental Online Communities
12/07/2003 07:12 AMWebloggers and diarists are using Instant Message visitor alerts to
build accidental online communities.
lycos kills communities
lycos kills communities
01/27/2004 01:21 AMinterestingly, they're keeping their blog service
Making Web Communities Work
Making Web Communities Work
01/09/2004 09:58 PM12
Variables for Understanding Online Communites: Whether or not a
Web community thrives or sputters had always been kind of a
hit-or-miss affair. This article identifies the 12 most important
variables.
The twelve variables we've selected are most likely not
all that exist, just the ones we find most important in our thinking
right now. These variables struck us as important ways in which
communities are differentiated despite the type of software chosen to
carry a given community.
Via eLearnSpace.
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FC Now: Creating Connected Communities
FC Now: Creating Connected Communities
04/01/2005 07:07 AMThis afternoon at Freedom to Connect opened with J.H. Snider, senior
research fellow at the New America Foundation, moderating a panel
discussion. Participants included Varinia Robinson, program manager of
Wireless Philadelphia; Ben Scott, policy director for Free Press;
Dewayne Hendricks,...
Communities and echo chambers
Communities and echo chambers
02/14/2004 01:24 PMShelly asks the question "What part of you, the writer, is
part of a community? Where, within yourself, does community leave off
and you begin?" and says, "But I guess we're accountable to each
other, and that's the most dangerous censorship of all -- it's the
censorship of the commons." This is an interesting question that
Shelley has pointed out to me and I have been thinking about. In the
comments on Shelley's blog, Doc ties it to the notion of the "echo
chamber," the effect where we're all just talking to each other
oblivious to the outside world. Many people blame the failures of the
Dean campaign to this "echo chamber" and point to this "echo chamber"
as a problem that is prevalent on blogs. I do see the risks, but I
don't think criticizing the existence of communities or friendships is
the solution. I think that communities and friendship are the
foundations of trust and love and I do not agree that an aggregate of
facts and single voices are the solution to finding the "ultimate
truth" in writing.
I believe that communities and the feeling of community are an
essential part of the equation, but that the goal is to bridge many
communities and try to expand one's notion of community the the
largest possible size.
For instance, I believe that you can feel your ultimate loyalty to
your family, company, city, state, race, religion, nation, type of
government or the world. I believe that by putting your loyalty at the
highest level allows you to be a global citizen and helps you
recognize the importance of whistle-blowers who are often betraying
local loyalties for a higher good. I believe that the whole notion of
civil rights is a struggle to elevate and increase the emotional size
of the community we identify with.
One way to increase the size of the community one identifies with
is to participate in multiple communities or to include members from
others communities. This is an important part of the "caring
problem" that Ethan and I often talk about. I often quote Jack
Kemp who once said that, "it doesn't matter what you know if you don't
care." One of the problems that mass media faces is that they can
report on Iraq, Iran and Africa, but most people don't identify with
the people there and they don't care. Salam Pax showed that a
single blogger with a voice can increase the caring. Salam Pax is part
of our community and we are proud of him and we care about him.
Through his eyes, we see Iraq as part of our world and because of him,
other Iraqi bloggers have joined our community.
I think the key is to understand that it's not just like a high
school. In high school, there is group of friends and everyone spends
all of their time concerned about being in that group or not in that
group. My life is a jumble of relationships and memberships in a great
variety of sometimes conflicting communities of all different sizes
and doesn't feel like high school to me. As Ross
has pointed out, these can be roughly groups into three sizes. Big
power-law shaped groupings, which are political, medium sized
groupings which are social, and smaller groups which are
strong-tie/family/close-friend groups. My sister used the word,
"Full-Time Intimate Community".
The behavior at each of these levels is quite different and it is
when we collapse the context that we get in trouble. Comments made
between intimate friends are different from the comments that are
suitable for a discussion at a cocktail party. Comments made at a
cocktail party are often not suitable for a public speech. One of the
problems we have on blogs is that all three of these contexts are
often collapsed into one blog.
On the notion of "censorship of the commons," I guess I'd disagree
with Shelley. I think censorship by a minority of people with
influence over the majority is much more dangerous than "censorship of
the commons." If the commons represents a general consensus of the
views of the community you choose to participate in, they should have
some influence over you. I think censorship is really bad when it is
exercised from a position of authority, especially one that has the
ability to assert such authority through force. I am personally pulled
in many directions from all of the communities I participate in and
these tensions are interesting and useful. I see them less as
censorship and more as points of view that help me triangulate. My
traditional Japanese community, my crypto/security community, my
feminist friends, my liberal political community and my
latte-drinking, orkut-loving, IRC-addicted community all have opinions
about what I write. I think about what their opinions will be when I
write and I find that this helps me look at any issue from a variety
of perspectives. They are each echo chambers in their own way, but I
try to escape this echo chamber not by denying their existence or
their influence over me, but by recognizing them and using a
combination of communities to help me and my readers triangulate.
Building Online Communities
Building Online Communities
10/22/2002 06:43 AMDigital Communities winners
Digital Communities winners
06/21/2004 01:20 AMDigital
Communities: Award Winners
By Howard on Technologies of Cooperation
From now on, instead of engaging in an argument that was once
provocative but has grown tedious, whenever I am asked, "but virtual
communities aren't REAL, are they?" I can simply point to the Ars Electronica
Jury Statement for the new Digital Communities category. 40,000
Euros were awarded this year. I'll be in New York City next week for
the award ceremony....
[Smart
Mobs]
Net needs law enforcement, author says
Net needs law enforcement, author says
06/08/2004 04:54 PMWASHINGTON - The Internet is a "god-awful mess," but few U.S.
government officials are willing to take action against virus writers,
spammers and other scammers, author Bruce Sterling said at the Gartner
IT Security Summit Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Who's doing selective enforcement?
Who's doing selective enforcement?
10/30/2003 11:31 AMIT firms go low-tech to support
communities
IT firms go low-tech to support
communities
12/12/2003 11:12 PMSunday Times South Africa Dec 12 2003 10:12PM ET
Prix Ars Electronica Digital Communities
Prix Ars Electronica Digital Communities
02/05/2005 09:29 PM
I will be on the Prix Ars Electronica digital communities jury
again next year. Please help us out by submitting work that you think
meets the criteria below.
For the second time in 2005, Prix
Ars Electronica will honor important achievements by digital
communities. This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging
social impact of the Internet as well as on the latest developments in
the fields of social software, mobile communications and wireless
networks.
The "Digital Communities" category is open to political, social,
and cultural projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all over
the world utilizing digital technology to better society and assume
social responsibility. It is meant to recognize the initiators and
propagators of these communities as well as the developers of the
relevant technologies, and to honor those whose work contributes to
the establishment and proliferation of Digital Communities as well as
provide understanding and research into them.
The prizes in this category will total 20,000 Euros: one Golden
Nica (10,000 Euro), two Awards of Distinction (5,000 Euros each) and
up to 12 Honorary Mentions.
For full information please check http://ww
w.aec.at/en/prix/communities/communities.asp
Online submission: http://www.aec
.at/en/prix/registration/index.asp
Deadline for submissions: March 11, 2005
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More Communities May Find Lead In Water
More Communities May Find Lead In Water
06/22/2004 08:44 PMFree Internet Press Jun 23 2004 0:42AM GMT
loyal communities are amazingly cool
loyal communities are amazingly cool
05/23/2004 09:21 AMI've been getting tons of angry email about something nice I said on
Screensavers
. I don't remember just what I said, but I apparently praised
Tor Books for innovativeness
with ebook publishing -- e.g., with
Cory's books.
This led angry fans of
Baen Books
to write to complain that Baen was far better than Tor. (One fan was
so angry that he bought me a trial subscription to Baen -- just the
sort of criticism I love best!).
I apologize to Baen fans, for I certainly don't intend to criticize
the amazingly innovative business model of Baen (which nicely mixes
free and non, and strongly encourages new authors). And I respect
greatly your loyalty. When's the last time a fan of Sony Records wrote
to criticize praise of EMI? (Who was the last fan of Sony Records?)
Java Communities, Contributions
Colliding
Java Communities, Contributions
Colliding
06/29/2004 06:44 PMJavaOne -- CEO Scott McNealy appeals to Microsoft and Red Hat to join
the JCP, and challenges IBM to open its source code.
International Journal of Web Based
Communities
International Journal of Web Based
Communities
12/17/2004 06:43 PMInt.
J. of Web Based Communities - IJWBC: Your phpBB install finally has a
scientific journal.
The IJWBC is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It offers
state of the art to practitioners such as communication managers,
officers of public information services, web masters and of course
those who are responsible for online communities.
Via Metafilter.
Microsoft Communities Team Gets a Clue
Microsoft Communities Team Gets a Clue
06/23/2004 09:19 AMLooks like there's a parade of industry luminaries visiting Microsoft
these days. ClueTrain Manifesto author David Weinberger is the latest
Communities debate wind power
Communities debate wind power
09/21/2004 03:05 PMglobetechnology.com Sep 21 2004 6:23PM GMT
Grok Description matches for failings in the administration and intelligence and law enforcement communities
GrokA matches for failings in the administration and intelligence and law enforcement communities
failings in the administration and intelligence and law enforcement communities
