How are you finding out what you need to know? Are you getting the information when you need it? Or have you become accustomed to waiting for your “alert?” 

The U.K.'s Digital Communications Bill increases the goverment's legal digital surveillance capability

Zack Whittaker of ZDNet reports today about the draft Data Communications Bill that HM the Queen outlined in her annual speech to Parliament. He summarizes, "The draft “Communications Data Bill” is will expand the U.K. government’s Web, email, and call monitoring powers..." including allowing the police, intelligence services and other government departments to have access to its citizens’ Web, email and phone traffic to see every shred of “communication data” collected and stored by ISPs and phone companies which could then be accessed in near-realtime speed by U.K. authorities.

Speaking of knowledge management, I recently discovered that a Department of Homeleand Security document called the "Analyst Desktop Binder" was made public. Among the tidbits in the document was a tiered list of sources the agency finds reliable. Here they are, in original text, but with the formatting changed:

There are a lot of great pieces on the techniques and tools of content curation, and almost all of them include some version of do’s and don’ts. Below is a summary of the most important points.

One of the questions I get the most about the Darwin Awareness Engine is how “awareness” differs from “search.”

I’m getting really tired of hearing about Information Overload. I think we sometimes make the same mistake here at Darwin in thinking that what the Darwin Awareness Engine (DAE) does is help information workers deal with Overload, when what we do is something subtly, but importantly, different. The DAE organizes bits of data into patterns that help the user understand what’s different about the world. This is competitive awareness.