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What, Kill a Perfectly Good Program? UPDATE: Total Information Awareness Lives. Congress voted to shut down the Pentagon’s controversial Total Information Awareness program in 2003 (though not before it was renamed “Terrorism Information Awareness” — sound familiar?). During a Senate hearing last week, General Michael Hayden was asked whether TIA had simply been “moved to various intelligence agencies” after Congress tried to terminate it. As ThinkProgress [...] [Think Progress] It's a shame congress keeps telling them to kill it. If the details got out, I suspect the ACLU and the public would not support it. They'd need to knock down the JoHo Sayeth Wanted: Open Source Gartner. Jeneane wonders whether there's a more reasonably priced source for the sort of info industry analysts offer: The major analyst firms either need to offer a price/platform for indies and new media folks, OR new media folks need to start indie analyst groups of their own, offering their findings at a price that's at least sort of affordable, which is not $3K for a report. Or even better, a wikipedia version of research and analysis compilations. It's an interesting question because the analyst companies sell their authority as much as their data — believe them when they say the size... [Joho the Blog] Marty Snarketh: Unless you're a subscriber, the Analysts don't analyze or even reliably mention you. They're generally a paid commerical promotional vehicle for their subscribers (from the services, ISV and OEM communities). The authority comes from corporate types needing to refer to some seeming authority without reflecting on the underpinnings of such a judgement. Analysts, like Trade Press editors and lawyers, pick their messages or cases based on revenues. Radio Moraga-Orinda Fire Department training this morning. ICS 100 again. The Fed version and slide by slide. It'll take three sessions to get through it. I come away wondering how we tie CERT and GMRS into the rest of the communications strategy. Of course, I wonder how deep the communications strategy really is. Sheets of paper are pretty thin. Symas Janitorial Spent about an hour getting symas.console() back. I was afraid we'd lost all the data in the Symas blog. Turns out it is a problem with Safari not clearing cookies when php asks it to. Wonder what other cookie problems it has. The Stealth Project Well, it's a nightmare figuring out how to collaborate without Window and Groove and all that bloatware. Nothing shows up no matter how we try. There's just no other really collaborative outliner. SubEthaEdit does the collaborative editing thing pretty well. It's actually a little more up to date than Groove was. But it lacks the outlining convenience and, like groove, it's a nightmare getting things formatted nice and ready for print. It turns out that the OPML Editor does the right thing when you cut and paste between it and SubEthaEdit. So, we can collaborate in tab-indented text files shared via WebDAV and then casually drop it into OPML Editor for whatever that's good for, particularly formatting (rendering) and printing. It's a somewhat kludgey solution but it's an improvement. And the editing environment is Apple Spell-checked with the OPML Editor is NOT. Today: The virtual rowboat went 5561 meters at a fairly relaxed effort level. Nice. 118.4. It's nice to have an effect the first day, but I doubt it counts. His Shortness and I managed a lap of Safeway for essentials. |
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