Encouraging news today…

Intellipedia's godfather is CIA analyst D. Calvin Andrus, who wrote a paper in 2004 titled "The Wiki and the Blog: Towards a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community.". For decades, the U.S. intelligence system had been structured to answer static Cold War questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What America needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090408/us_time/08599189008400

Your Manhattan Cluster is colonizing the theme of collective intelligence networks and knowledge markets on 24 Apr 2009.

http://www.pmcluster.com/NYC09.htm