As a one-time student of the cold war, pondering the potential causes of a global nuclear war was something of a Sunday afternoon past-time. The historic classic is of course the Cuban missile crisis but equally important were the series of near misses based on the faulty reading of radar early-warning systems when flocks of [...]
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Lulz takes on North Korea
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not Bad!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Griefing and Raiding and Entropia
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Currently playing with an idea relating to the nature of conflict within virtual spaces.
MercyHurst Virtual Worlds Initiative
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Link Here.
The problem with relying on crowds
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have had some objections to the use of crowds to conduct information anaylsis but have never been able to put it quite as well as today’s editorial in the Financial Times: Wisdom of nerds Published: February 13 2009 21:57 | Last updated: February 13 2009 21:57 Never a man overburdened by modesty, during his [...]
WEF – Scenarios and the ‘digital ecosystem’
Posted in News, Uncategorized, tagged digital ecosystem, WEF on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The WEF posts a decent amount of material online following the main event in Davos. Away from the headlines there are usually a few fascinating reports to be found. I haven’t completed a full scan yet but I can across some interesting scenario work and one discussing the ‘Digital EcoSystem’. The WEF scenario planners outline [...]
Abu Aardvark on al-Qaeda 2.0
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting post by Abu Aardvark (aka Marc Lynch from GW University) on terrorist use of technology. Link to posting here. Some interesting comments comparing outreach and operations.
Twit or Tweet
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism, Uncategorized, tagged jaiku, terrorism, twitter, wired on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Army’s 304th Military Intelligence Battalion recently produced a presentation entitled, “ al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses”. The presentation has some interesting information regarding, ‘Pro Terrorist Propoganda Cell Phone Interfaces”, mobile phone target surveillance, “Voice Changers for Terrorist Telephone Calls” and finally, “Potential for Terrorist use of Twitter”. This last topic has [...]
Money Launders in Action?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my many trawls across the internet I’ve come across a very interesting story here regarding the possible arrest and seize of Chinese Money Launder’s using an online game to supposedly transfer $38m in 18 months. Those of you who’ve kept track with this website will be very aware that this is something I’ve been predicting [...]
Emerging media its effect on organizations
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dwight Tovas presentation from the ODNI open source conference, regarding potential uses of World of Warcraft, available here as powerpoint: link.
