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“Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the convenience of having access to data and applications from any Web-connected device. However, their message to …
“Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been …
Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement, Majority Staff Report, September 2008. “Open source intelligence products can and should be shared with appropriate Federal, State, local and tribal law enforcement, and the private sector because of their unclassified nature. Unfortunately, DHS has not effectively exploited this …
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power – The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness, Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics, Council on Foreign Relations Press, September 2008 “The problems associated with U.S. indebtedness cannot be addressed overnight. But the report proposes ways for the United States to guard against the effects of a disruption in foreign financing, …
Securing Pakistan’s Tribal Belt, by Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations Press, July/August 2008 “What is at stake is considerable by any measure. Pakistan is the worlds second-most-populous Muslim-majority country, with nearly 170 million people. It shares borders with Afghanistan, where U.S. and allied forces are struggling …
News release: “The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN [the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world’s leading laboratory for particle physics] was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the worlds most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition …
Advisory Board members and former 9/11 Commissioners Lee Hamilton and Slade Gorton announce Partnership for a Secure America’s new WMD Terror Report Card: “A nuclear, chemical or biological weapon in the hands of terrorists remains the single greatest threat to our nation.” To view the full WMD Report Card click here. To view the Nuclear …
Library of Congress WiseGuide: Remembering 9/11 Related postings on 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Dedication – September 11, 2008 Pentagon Memorial Fund AP: “An island of peace amid the bustle of Logan International Airport was dedicated Tuesday to honor the 147 passengers and crew killed when terrorists flew two planes from here into New York City’s World …
Via Secrecy News: Knowledge Management Section, U.S. Army Field Manual 6-01.1, August 29, 2008 “This manual provides doctrine for the organization and operations of the knowledge management (KM) section. It establishes the doctrinal principles, tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary to effectively integrate KM into the operations of brigades, divisions, and corps.”
Official Google Blog: “Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives…Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, …
News release: “The (ITN) International Telecommunication Union launched its key Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Report for the Asia-Pacific region at ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008…The Report (for purchase) focuses on broadband connectivity as a vehicle for content to drive development and build a knowledge-based information society. While some Asia-Pacific economies are world leaders in information and communication technologies …
World Wildlife Fund – Increasing Vulnerability to Hurricanes: Global Warmings Wake-Up Call for the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts “The destructive potential of tropical storms in the North Atlantic has increased by about 50 percent since the 1970s. This increase, which primarily reflects longer storm lifetimes and greater storm intensities, is correlated with an increase …
