The Senate Armed Services Committee’s confirmation hearing for incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates is underway on Capitol Hill. It began this morning at 9:30 a.m. and likely will last most of the day. To follow the hearings live, C-SPAN’s Web feed is here. And the folks over at InsideDefense.com are live-blogging the hearing. They’ve already posted 12 times in less than two hours.
The New York Times magazine this Sunday published a must-read article about using blogs, wikis and other “social software” that is already revolutionizing the way people share information on the public Internet to improve the moribund information-sharing systems of the U.S. intelligence community. And, yes, we did say moribund. The opening paragraphs of the article, by Clive Thompson, demonstrate just how behind the times the intel community is when it comes to information technology: When Matthew Burton arrived at the Defense Intelligence Agency in January 2003, he was excited about getting to his computer. Burton, who was then 22, had [...]
