Open-Source Warfare By: Robert N. Charette | IEEE Spectrum
Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn — and the West is struggling to keep up.

ON OPEN SOURCE GUERRILLA VANGUARDS

by John Robb

NOTE: Working through some thoughts on warfare theory in this post. Please excuse the mess, it's a work in progress.

In the traditional fourth generation war of the Maoist model, an insurgency/revolution begins with the formation of a guerrilla vanguard. This vanguard's goal is to create a moral crisis that incapacitates the government. To accomplish this, the vanguard simultaneously:

@ haha.nu.

The Internet is making us stupid

Content is Dead, Community is King?

I, Google For consumers, provided there is nothing nasty in the small print, Google’s new Android platform for mobiles is a welcome new entrant

Slate I Want You … Badly

A complete guide to Uncle Sam's recruiting incentives.
Phillip Carter and Brad Flora

Lush Shades of Gray Explored in Major Jasper Johns Exhibition at Art Institute

Jasper Johns, Flag, 1958, Pencil and graphite wash on paper

Blogs and elitism

by Kiki

Sunny at Pickled Politics makes the following interesting point about blogging and elitism, which I think is instructive even though I wonder whether it is on point:

Fake news, the new standard

Jonah Goldberg: TV journalism is increasingly playing to the Colberts and Stewarts to attract younger viewers.

The Not-Google Phone Google’s plan to develop a new open software standard for mobile phones could result in a more richly and fully integrated universe of mobile devices

Bringing Internet openness to the closed wireless world is bold but difficult, analysts say.

Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas
IEED A 124-page paper dealing with the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in low- and middle-income countries

Erkan's field diary