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2006-11-01 Science & Technology
'Intellipedia' developed for spy research
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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-01 09:58|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Would set Rantburg against the Intellipedia any day. Better minds, better humor and no conspiring against the administration.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-11-01 10:13||   2006-11-01 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 
Getting some traditionalists to contribute takes encouragement. Intellipedia's architects have resorted to sending small, black garden shovels to contributors.

"I dig Intellipedia!" says the handle. "It's wiki, wiki, Baby."

Why are they going that if their intent is to encourage contributions?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-11-01 10:19|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-11-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Has anyone told the FBI, yet?
Posted by .com 2006-11-01 10:19||   2006-11-01 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 About Intellipedia or Rantburg?
Posted by Darrell 2006-11-01 10:40||   2006-11-01 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 we know
Posted by FBI guy">FBI guy  2006-11-01 10:41||   2006-11-01 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember back when we were snarking about the FBI's latest failure to computerize and somewho suggested a wiki would make a fine first-pass attempt at a system?
Posted by SteveS 2006-11-01 12:53||   2006-11-01 12:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Yup, exactly.
Posted by .com 2006-11-01 13:03||   2006-11-01 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope they expand the concept to create a (heavily moderated) public wiki complementary to their private wiki.

The concept is simple: to open the floodgates to those who want to "talk" to them. Granted 98% would be utter crapola, but in that 2% they might get some pearls of true genius.

I am reminded of one of the first serious efforts to compile a dictionary. The compiler received an extraordinary flow of contributions from one gentleman, who eventually he discovered was a voluntary inmate in an insane asylum.

In the case of an online intelligence wiki, they would receive all sorts of tidbits, many from other intelligence agencies, either as a discreet heads up or trying to deceive (not knowing that any information is useful information to a spy agency.)

But they would also get information from old, retired spies and historians, world travelers and experts in arcana, and some shocks by those odd people who can read a thousand pieces of information and draw a quantum leap, but correct conclusion.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-01 13:10||   2006-11-01 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred can license them the yellow hiliter technology.

Also, he gets royalties on every link to the Crossfire Gazette.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-11-01 13:23||   2006-11-01 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Sea, methinks if they'd just puruse either the RB Times-Picayune daily or Thugburg, they'd find out a LOT more! Another reason I love RB...TONS of info (that in hindsight, actually matters, no matter how far scattered), easily accessed and plenty of online "experts" (both in spying and snarking) to boot!
Posted by BA 2006-11-01 13:44||   2006-11-01 13:44|| Front Page Top

#11 If they or NSA had a brain, they'd have somebody posting here and at ITM and a bunch of other places. Dropping juicy tidbits now and then, monitoring the traffic and goings on from time to time. I actually suspect/hope they have been.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-01 14:19||   2006-11-01 14:19|| Front Page Top

#12 I hope they expand the concept to create a (heavily moderated) public wiki complementary to their private wiki.

AMEN! I'm sure Cyber-Sarge, Old Spook, and Fred would also agree to contribute. Thugburg would be a great place to start. Another good idea would be to collect ALL open-source information about hot-spots around the world into a single source. Can you imagine having EVERYTHING that was said or written about Darfur, Somalia, Yemen, any of the muzzie terror groups, etc., online for everyone to see? Might want to make some areas read-only, to keep the "enemy" from erasing historical context. It would take a HUGE server, but I'm sure a CRAY-3 could handle it... Either that or a Sun SparkStation.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-11-01 15:13|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-11-01 15:13|| Front Page Top

#13 They don't need a public wiki. That's one of the things data mining is excellent for. ;-)
Posted by lotp 2006-11-01 15:17||   2006-11-01 15:17|| Front Page Top

#14 They don't want a Cray, Old Patriot. They want a massively paralleled something-or-other, like this
Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-01 16:51||   2006-11-01 16:51|| Front Page Top

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