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Via the D-Ring blog, links to two stories about the internal war within the Air Force over the use of social/new media and Internet technologies more generally.
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Two views of the Air Force:
- Air Force Makes Social Media a Priority
- Air Force Unplugs Bases’ Internet Connections
Cognitive dissonance anyone?
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Sources And Methods: Open Source Communicable Disease Surveillance Tool (Biocaster)
A very cool tool. It would be nice if there were a generic application like this that would allow you to “roll your own”–i.e. allow you to plug in source feeds, set persistent searches, and then have the data displayed on a map, or possible even a network graph, line graph, etc.
Soldiers banned from using MySpace and Facebook… in case they breach national security
Though early signs are good that the U.S. military has gone through this phase and is emerging on the other side with a more rational response–i.e. there have been recent reports of greater use of social media by commanders; each of the services have recently developed presences on Facebook, Second Life, Twitter, etc.–the Brits seem still to be in the ban-it-first-think-and-ask-questions-later phase.
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