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Oversight deficit?

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Kevin Drum posted a summary of the Sy Hersh article in The New Yorker that I linked to the other day, and very correctly points out that perhaps the most important thing is not that the administration has been looking closely at (and in) Iran. Rather, it is that covert activities in the US have shifted to the Pentagon from the CIA.

Hersh says – with seemingly considerable backup – that the administration has a broad plan to remove covert operations from the CIA and centralize them all in the Pentagon. Why? Because they believe that Pentagon ops are exempt from 70s-era laws that limit covert activities. In other words, no oversight.

Liz Lawley

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

in Many-to-Many: Social consequences of social tagging. Liz raises several issues related to tagging and other bottom-up classification approaches.

Interesting:

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Ta-da Lists. From the people that brought you Basecamp, the online project management solution.

To read:

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes.

Nofollow:

January 20, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow. A cogent article on the rel=nofollow initiative from Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent. I diverge from him, however, in that my understanding that the goals of this initiative are not to prevent comment spam directly, but to contribute, in a small way, to reducing the potential value comment spam. I agree that the assumption that comment spammers do it because of page rank is dubious and the evidence to support the assumption is lacking.