9/11, one part of the story is how peace and war became interchangeable afterwards. what's the meaning of war after 9/11? a story broadcasted in feb. 2007 and maybe worth to bring to the surface again, after seeing and reading all these reports. another historical piece to add ...

wondering what carl bildt would say five years after the interview, though, as well as sir michael howard, who is 88 by now.

it was my first time with these crowd, thanks to charles herzfeld, whom i wanted to see and went to geneva to do a story on arpa (was the first time we met personally, but having to many questions one needs to meet more often, which i could, luckily). but who would leave out a chance to listen to all these strategists of iiss, charles came over for?

the second mil event was en berlin (handelsblatt gathering). and i have to say, in hindsight i preferred geneva. at least it was far more interesting and challenging, yet strange. will never forget sir howard's talk about war was actually given as a dinner talk.

after blogs are social networks on their radar for recruitment. waiting for the first official announcement of their wikis, though.

In the bigger picture, if the CIA experiment goes well, other government agencies may be encouraged to turn to social networking tools for recruitment in the future. With hundreds of thousands of government workers set to retire in the coming years, sites like Facebook and LinkedIn may represent an untapped source of future talent. | acm carreernews

Communications Garden: has been used by the Arizona police department to predict links in criminal social networks, based on semantic analysis of communication contents | analyzing actors ...