OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Sharon Weinberger’s article in Nature is behind a pay wall. I will provide some extracts and summaries below. The title of the article is “Military Research: The Pentagon’s Culture Wars” and was published online in Nature News on October 1, 2008. ••••••• Weinberger’s article, like so many others these days, is a recapitulation of much that has [...]
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
What began several years ago as an attempt to recruit social scientists to help the military has sparked a broader debate about militarizing academia. Sharon Weinberger reports.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
BOULDER.- On Friday, October 10, 2008 at 6:30pm, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) at the University of Colorado invites the community-at-large to enjoy a talk with internationally recognized authors and journalists, Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge, who in the past year have
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... early and another was just monitoring. The group was an impressive group, including Steve Corman , Sharon Weinberger and Noah Shachtman , John Brown , a reporter from CNN International (does he blog?), Pat Kushlis , Alex Belida , and others. I’ll post a link to the transcript when it’s available. Presumably (hopefully, hint hint) it will be available on DipNote or America.gov , two...
The Brad Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... and hundreds of key people on the other side in this conflict. So what could this new weapon be? Sharon Weinberger at Wired.com has a guess : I believe he is talking about the much ballyhooed (in defense geek circles) "Tagging, Tracking and Locating" [TTL] program... These are newfangled technologies designed to track people from long distances, without the targeted people realizing...
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
... Facilitation A book for the aspiring architect of USIA 2.0 Rethinking Smith-Mundt: responding to Sharon Weinberger American Progress: Build a National Consensus on Development and Dump Smith-Mundt (follow up here ) If Smith-Mundt really applied to the entire government... What would you do if you had six (or less) months to address the problems of U.S. Public Diplomacy? The actual...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... opened wide the window on places and events that, not so long ago, only spies could see,” writes Sharon Weinberger. As the initial shock wore off, five main responses to the “Google threat” emerged from nations around the world: negotiations with Google, banning Google products, developing a similar product, taking evasive measures, and nonchalance. This report discusses foreign reporting...
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
If you are at all interested in the Smith-Mundt discussion with Sharon Weinberger, I recommend you check out two posts by Craig Hayden on the subject...
