Careers In Intel Studies For High School Students (Nextstepmagazine.com)

NextSTEP Magazine, which covers the college scene for high school students, recently profiled the intelligence studies career field. This is first time I have seen such an article aimed at high school students and the article featured one of Mercyhurst's graduates, Zac Huber, fairly prominently. While the authors had some interesting ideas (emergency management specialist = intelligence professional?), I was glad to see the coverage of the discipline in such a prominent publication.

NextGen Browsers (Adaptive Path)

John Robb over at Global Guerrillas, pointed me (among others) to a very interesting video put together by Adaptive Path on a vision of the near term future of internet browsers. Given that virtually everything anyone does in intelligence analysis has some sort of browsing associated with it, I thought this would be a particularly fascinating video for most people.

I have included Part 1 below but you can see the full four part series at Adaptive Path's Aurora Concept Video website. It is also interesting to note that Mozilla Labs is the sponsor for this series on the next generation browser. Can anyone say "Firefox 4.0"?


Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

"The Machine Is Us/ing Us" And Other Mind-blowing Videos From Michael Wesch

Michael Wesch is an anthropology professor at Kansas State University and he has, over the last several years, with nothing but creativity and his student's efforts, put together some of the most thought provoking short videos on the web.

Many people are already familiar with Dr. Wesch's work but in case you aren't, you should start with the five minute video, "The Machine Is Us/ing Us" (seen below)...



There are at least two other videos that are worth watching. The first is Dr. Wesch's incredible collaborative effort with his students called "A Vision Of Students Today". This 4+ minute film is a real eye-opener for anyone who teaches college students or for anyone who is about to send a student off to college.

The final and most recent Wesch production is his hour long lecture at the Library of Congress titled "An Anthropological Introduction To YouTube" (I saw it first mentioned on the DataMining blog). Make sure you have a full hour to devote to it. Once you start it, you will not want to stop watching.

Dr. Wesch also has a good blog called Digital Ethnography.

Timeline Of Virtual Worlds (Greenbush Labs)

A colleague just pointed out to me a very interesting product on the Greenbush Labs Blog -- a virtual worlds timeline. What makes this timeline (see below) enormously cool is the way in which multiple media products have been integrated into it. I could imagine uses for this type of product in law enforcement, business and national security; virtually any time sensitive document (Imagine a history book, for example, put together using Dipity's technology...). Even if you are not into virtual worlds, you have to be impressed with this specific example and the possibilities of this technology in general.

How Magicians Control Your Mind (Boston.com via AOC)

The always interesting Architectures Of Control blog points to an online Boston globe article on how magicians and cognitive psychologists "are getting at similar questions, but while neuroscientists have been looking at this for a few decades, magicians have been looking at this for centuries, millennia probably." Definitely worth reading. For a little bit of magic (just as an example) check out the video below from The Unpleasant World Of Penn And Teller.



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