Our one big hope for the future Military Technology
Today the Pentagon said that they needed to move away from Fossil Fuels, and much like the rocketry that allowed us to go to the moon, much like the internet that is disrupting hundreds of business models, the military going green might be the way to p…
The lack of IT graduates has deep implications for the US Military
I am not a military expert – but as a follow on to yesterday’s very long blog entry on the Three Tiers of IT Workers and where the money is, there is some follow through that needs to be looked at.
Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban
I don’t pretend to be a military strategist, but I’ve figured out how to win the war in Afghanistan. OK, not on my own – The New York Times helped, with an article titled: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in [...]
Fear and Censorship Drives Military Bloggers Underground
This should be of interesting to almost every blogger out there. We all know that there are some bloggers who maintain their anonymity like Mini-Microsoft; we also know that there are bloggers who have had their identity revealed under court order, or voluntarily before legal action was taken. An article in the NY Times talks [...]
US Army Wikified
WetPaint is one of my early “discoveries”, three years ago I called them the “wiki-less” wiki, as it blended wiki-like, forum-like and blog-like features long before it became fashionable. I haven’t followed them closely, but apparently they’ve been growing nicely, and today I saw this post: The US Army on Wetpaint! – hm .. let’s [...]
