On 9/12/07, Michael Zimmer <michael.zimmer@nyu.edu> wrote:
Of course, intelligence operatives reportedly have their own sns: A- Space <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2178210,00.asp>
And their own wikipedia: Intellipedia. I spent a couple days this summer at the Director of National Intelligence's OSI conference. (Blog posts here: http://alex.halavais.net/category/intelligence/ ) While it is true that spies tend to have a secretive streak--who'd have thought!--it is essentially a knowledge-producing organization, and unless you are working in the clandestine services, you can generally say where you work. Many *choose* not to, because it raises questions that probably cannot be answered, but I'm guessing that many of us have had grad students who have worked for the intelligence services or contractors in some capacity. As an aside, at that conference several of the speakers noted that their one of their greatest interests for recruiting these days is for virtual ethnographers... -- // // This email is // [X] assumed public and may be blogged / forwarded. // [ ] assumed to be private, please ask before redistributing. // // Alexander C. Halavais // Social Architect // http://alex.halavais.net //