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February 24, 2007

More spies embrace social networking tools

"The U.S. Department of Defense's lead intelligence agency is using wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise 'mashups' to help its analysts collaborate better when sifting through data used to support military operations," according to an article by Heather Havenstein in Computerworld. Wikis, blogs, mashups...lots going on there. [Tags: democracy politics web2.0 everything_is_miscellaneous knowledge]

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 24, 2007 12:36 PM

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I think this is great in some ways -- in that the terror war is essentially a propoganda war, so if we are getting more competent at using all the available media, that's good. I would rather see us fighting in Bloghdad than in Baghdad.

Posted by: Weston MA | February 27, 2007 12:00 PM

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