Is ISI Really The Best Intelligence Agency In The World?

http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/spies.gif According to the National Post, Canada's conservative newspaper, it is. Th...

1st Annual Entry-level Intel Analyst Jobs Report Out Now!

How good is the job market for entry-level intelligence analysts over the next 12 months?  Good question, right?  If you are a recent gradua...

If You Think You Understand The Role Of Social Media In The Arab Spring Uprisings (And Particularly If You Don't), Watch This Video...

  This video is an hour long and, frankly, I didn't think I would have the time this morning.  Started watching nonetheless and became ...

Testing A New Mindmapping Tool...And You Can Join In! (Popplet.com)

One of our amazing alums ( Thanks, Justin! ) sent me a link to a beta version of a new, web-based, collaborative mindmapping tool called Pop...

Welcome USA Today Readers!

If you have found your way to my little slice of the internet today, it is probably because of this article in USA Today.  Hello! If you ar...

Evaluating The Reliability Of Social Media Sources, An Amazing Technology Roadmap And Reagan's Visual SFARs (Link List)

I love having friends and alumni that send me interesting links and this week contained an extraordinary crop!  Here are three of the best t...

An Internet Murder?

I ran across this remarkable video today and it occurred to me that I might be able to use it to offer a brief but challenging thought exper...

How To Improve Your Open Source Search Skills -- One Day At A Time!

If you scratch the surface of the web you will find a ton of articles , websites and videos about how to search for information more effic...

How Many Entry-level Analysts Does The US IC Need This Year? (Survey)

Good question, right? If you have direct knowledge of information that might help answer the question in the title or you have indirect kno...

Two New "Intelligence In Business" Blogs Of Note

Competitive Intelligence?  Too narrowly defined.  Strategic and Competitive Intelligence?  Too long.  Industrial Espionage?  Illegal.  Comme...

The Intelligence Analyst's Deck Of Cards Is Here! (Pictures And Update)

The cards came in last week and look fantastic!  Take a look at the unboxing pics below: Cool, eh? We should begin shipping out the complime...

RFI: Should Intelligence Analysis Be More Like Competitive Diving?

Quick!  Which is more difficult:  A jackknife or three and a half somersaults from a tuck position? In case you are not familiar with these ...

Smokin' Hot Online Cyberthreat Analysis Grad Class About To Start! (Shameless Self Promotion)

I know it is shameless.  I know it is self-promoting but I think our online cyberthreat analysis course is an extremely cool, very awesome c...

Intelligence Is All About A Partially Observable, Stochastic, Continuous, Adversarial Space...Really!

At least that is what I learned in lesson 1 of Stanford's free, online, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Course.  Along with 160,...

Pre-order Your "Intelligence Analyst's Deck of Cards" Now!

In just a few days we expect to have the hotly anticipated Intelligence Analyst's Deck of Cards in the building. While everyone who sub...

Getting Intel From Twitter, Getting Help From Online Communities, Getting A Job And Target-Centric Astronomy (Link List)

The great things about having friends is that they send you stuff.  I love getting links and articles from contacts all over the world.  It ...

9 Types Of Collaborators (CentralDesktop.com)

Recently I posted some of the early results of our research into using wikis as collaborative tools for managing and producing intelligence...

The Intelligence Analyst's Deck Of Cards: An Update

Several people have asked me about the status of Intelligence Analyst's Deck Of Cards that we collectively worked on this summer, so I w...

Is This The End Of Textbooks? (MakeUseOf.com)

The recent launch of Mercyhurst's The Analyst's Cookbook, Vol 2 as a Kindle only edition ignited an interesting side discussion on ...

Analyst's Cookbook, Volume 2, Now Available!

The Analyst's Cookbook, Volume 2 , is out right now(!) and can be downloaded from Amazon.com to your Kindle or, if you don't have a ...