This week marks the second anniversary of the first live internal demo of the intelligence community’s A-Space project, groundbreaking for the IC in its goal of collaborative use of social media across agency lines. Somewhere in Maryland, a remarkable government employee and friend named Mike Wertheimer should pause and quietly celebrate the fruition of his early evangelism for it.
I was still a government employee then, but wrote about the effort at the time here on Shepherd’s Pi (“A-Space: Top-secret social networking“). It makes me chuckle to remember back to those days when it was still mostly unheard-of for IC employees to blog openly on the public web about current technology projects. Now you can’t shut ’em up! 🙂
It made sense, I thought, to set down a few notes at the time for several reasons: Continue reading
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I received an email last week from a DHS friend quietly asking that I “publicize” the listing once it was posted, which was scheduled to be last week. I checked for it online Friday – the first day applications were to be accepted – but must have looked too early for I didn’t see it listed. That’s understandable, given the holidays, so I checked again last night, prompted by a note from Bob Gourley of 
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