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    Default 2 Questions: Do You Write An Intelligence Blog and What's Your Favorite?

    If you write an IB blog, what is it? What's your favorite Intelligence-oriented blog or newsletter? I write IntelFusion, and enjoy reading The Spy Who Billed Me, Haft of the Spear, ThreatsWatch, and while its not a blog, NightWatch (John McCreary's newsletter).

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffC View Post
    If you write an IB blog, what is it? What's your favorite Intelligence-oriented blog or newsletter? I write IntelFusion, and enjoy reading The Spy Who Billed Me, Haft of the Spear, ThreatsWatch, and while its not a blog, NightWatch (John McCreary's newsletter).
    I write a blog but no one ever associates the word "intelligence" with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    I write a blog but no one ever associates the word "intelligence" with it.
    Ah, so it's a "covert" blog then. Very good!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffC View Post
    Ah, so it's a "covert" blog then. Very good!
    No, it's just dumb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    No, it's just dumb.
    Steve, I've been by several times and most give me a double take. It's not covert or at all dumb.

    I'm currently scanning your latest while on evening shifts

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    No, it's just dumb.
    if yours is dumb mine is dumber....? But I do have a few cool things on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffC View Post
    If you write an IB blog, what is it? What's your favorite Intelligence-oriented blog or newsletter? I write IntelFusion, and enjoy reading The Spy Who Billed Me, Haft of the Spear, ThreatsWatch, and while its not a blog, NightWatch (John McCreary's newsletter).
    I do not consider ThreatsWatch to be an "intelligence" blog - although I keep up with it, I consider it a poor second to Bill Roggio's The Long War Journal. Pat Lang's Sic Semper Tyrannis isn't bad, but still not truly "intelligence-oriented".

    And although The Spy Who Billed Med and Haft of the Spear may be considered "intelligence-oriented", they aren't as much "intelligence" blogs as is Kent's Imperative, which I prefer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    if yours is dumb mine is dumber....? But I do have a few cool things on it.
    Sam, you've once again cheated by adding biker pics and chicks

    BTW, I applied for an account at your place in order to respond to you posts, and have yet to hear back Was that in effect a subliminal message

    Regards, Stan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stan
    ....you've once again cheated by adding biker pics and chicks....
    .....for a decent blog discussing issues similar/related to what we talk about here and on the SWJ blog - but that throws in a completely unrelated picture of a naked woman (or women) with each entry - look at Swedish Meatballs Confidential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jedburgh View Post
    .....for a decent blog discussing issues similar/related to what we talk about here and on the SWJ blog - but that throws in a completely unrelated picture of a naked woman (or women) with each entry - look at Swedish Meatballs Confidential.
    OMG! I just looked at the most recent entry there. Sheila Jager, who works for me, would NOT appreciate the picture accompanying the entry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jedburgh View Post
    .....for a decent blog discussing issues similar/related to what we talk about here and on the SWJ blog - but that throws in a completely unrelated picture of a naked woman (or women) with each entry - look at Swedish Meatballs Confidential.
    I barely made it to Tuesday, November 06, 2007

    From a new article by Robert N. Charette in IEEE Spectrum, Open-Source Warfare:

    To understand open-source warfare, it's instructive to revisit Eric S. Raymond's 1997 manifesto, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, in which he describes how a large community of open-source software hackers created the operating system Linux.
    Such visual aides in an otherwise training environment are...well...hmmm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jedburgh View Post
    .....for a decent blog discussing issues similar/related to what we talk about here and on the SWJ blog - but that throws in a completely unrelated picture of a naked woman (or women) with each entry - look at Swedish Meatballs Confidential.
    Ha ha! Interesting dichotomy. I just subscribed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
    Steve, I've been by several times and most give me a double take. It's not covert or at all dumb.

    I'm currently scanning your latest while on evening shifts
    I see Steve's book but not his blog. What's the URL?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jedburgh View Post
    I do not consider ThreatsWatch to be an "intelligence" blog - although I keep up with it, I consider it a poor second to Bill Roggio's The Long War Journal. Pat Lang's Sic Semper Tyrannis isn't bad, but still not truly "intelligence-oriented".

    And although The Spy Who Billed Med and Haft of the Spear may be considered "intelligence-oriented", they aren't as much "intelligence" blogs as is Kent's Imperative, which I prefer.
    Wow, Kent's Imperative is in a class of its own. There's no author info. What are his credentials, do you know?

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    That's okay, A hat-tip to Stan for linking Steve's book. Very helpful to us newbies to this site.

    P.S. To Steve, I just read it, great insight!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stan View Post
    Sam, you've once again cheated by adding biker pics and chicks

    BTW, I applied for an account at your place in order to respond to you posts, and have yet to hear back Was that in effect a subliminal message

    Regards, Stan

    Dang Stan you were ok to post with day 1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    Dang Stan you were ok to post with day 1.
    Well (in your defense), I applied under another 'call sign' in keeping with the traditions of Secret Squirrel

    I'll give it another shot in the AM (on duty and beat).

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    Intel Dump is not just strictly intel but a good read >> http://www.intel-dump.com/

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    Interesting thread - and thanks for all mention (SMC), both favorable and less so. An interesting offshoot to this thread might be crappy self-proclaimed IBs.

    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    OMG! I just looked at the most recent entry there. Sheila Jager, who works for me, would NOT appreciate the picture accompanying the entry.
    We'd love to pull a dissonance dissipating pic-SWAP at SMC for that particular post if a decent surrogate pic can be suggestedby other. Just remember, vice is a slippery slope so be ye careful with thoust placating suggestions unto us.

    Several of our/my fav IB's have already been mentioned here. Off the beaten path, and perhaps not quite a blog, is SAAG

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    Greetings, M1 !

    Quote Originally Posted by M1 View Post
    Interesting thread - and thanks for all mention (SMC), both favorable and less so. An interesting offshoot to this thread might be crappy self-proclaimed IBs.

    We'd love to pull a dissonance dissipating pic-SWAP at SMC for that particular post if a decent surrogate pic can be suggestedby other. Just remember, vice is a slippery slope so be ye careful with thoust placating suggestions unto us.

    Several of our/my fav IB's have already been mentioned here. Off the beaten path, and perhaps not quite a blog, is SAAG
    Although I'm just across the 'pond' I had yet to notice your site (Ted typically finds folks like you much faster ).

    If you make to Estonia we'll have to get together and sample beers and discuss new pics for you site

    Welcome aboard and regards, Stan

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