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IBM Launches Competitive Intelligence Tool to Monitor Digital Opinions

IBM press release: “IBM today introduced a new software solution that enables businesses to make sense of the explosion of information from emerging social networks on the Web to deliver new insight into brand reputation and customer, competitor and public opinion about their company. The proliferation of blogs, news feeds, consumer review sites, newsgroups and… Continue Reading

Google Adds Two New Product Blogs

The newest additions to the Google product blogs, now numbering ten, are: Inside Google Desktop Blog: “We’ll be using this blog as an easy way to make announcements and share all kinds of information – including developer tips, in-depth feature descriptions, user feedback, and ideas on how to get more out of Google Desktop.” Google… Continue Reading

Forbes Attacks Blogs

Forbes targets what is calls “attack bloggers” with a very broad brush, in a trio of articles as follows: Attack of the Blogs, Daniel Lyons, 11.14.05 – “Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and… Continue Reading

Saddam Hussein Trial Blog

“As arguably the most important war crimes proceedings since Nurem­berg, the trials of Saddam Hussein are likely to constitute a “Grotian Moment” — defined as a legal develop­ment that is so signi­fi­cant that it can create new customary inter­national law or radically transform the inter­preta­tion of treaty-based law. This Website features key documents related to… Continue Reading

Study Reviews Role of Wikis and Blogs in Intelligence Community Info Sharing

Andrus, D. Calvin, The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community. Studies in Intelligence, September 2005. “US policy-makers, war-fighters, and law-enforcers now operate in a real-time worldwide decision and implementation environment. The rapidly changing circumstances in which they operate take on lives of their own, which are difficult or impossible to anticipate… Continue Reading

Enterprise Blogging Catches On

Executive Summary from the Guidewire Group Market Cycle Survey, October 2005: Blogging in the Enterprise (8 pages, PDF) Key findings (140 individual survey respondents): “Corporations of all sizes across a wide array of industries are adopting blogging technologies and practices. 89% of respondents are either blogging or are planning to blog.” “Smaller companies have been… Continue Reading