Re: Dear DoD, the Web Itself is Social

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com>
Date: August 17, 2009 4:14:55 PM EDT
To: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Dear DoD, the Web Itself is Social

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Farber<dave () farber net> wrote:
> Dave Recordon has a really good take on why the DoD considering  
> banning
> social media is a non-starter:
>
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/the-web-itself-is-social.html

At a book event in NYC recently for Beth Noveck's "Wiki Government"
book, she mentioned that the Air Force has an internal social
network/reputation system called "Aristotle".  Apparently, it's been
successful (here's an article (that I haven't read yet) about it:
http://peoplepointsystems.com/Aristotle_NAECON_PDF.pdf )

So, possibly some walled gardening here?  Not that this undermines
Recordon's point: just like the "analog hole" through which it's
impossible to stop digital media, the "social hole" in military
information will mean that some background level of social data must
"tunnel" through such walled gardens.

Thanks for sharing, Joe

--
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/




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