From Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, this publication might be compared to the Harvard Business Review. Here's a soundbite about the center:

The Center for Business Innovation is a source of new knowledge and insights for management. We exist to discover and develop innovations in strategy, organization, and technology that deliver high value to business. Our work, performed in collaboration with leading thinkers in business, academe, and other research organizations, fuels development of new strategic consulting services, and is communicated broadly to general business audiences.

On the subject of "connected innovation", the current issue of their journal includes, among other things, an interview with Alan Kay.

Alan Kay is one of the most influential computer scientists of the modern era. His contributions, among many others, include the concept of the personal computer. We sat down with him to discuss his take on how innovations happen.

In brief, Alan Kay rocks.

Interview with Alan Kay in the Journal of the Center for Business Innovation

The FBI effort, authorized by the antiterrorism law enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, is the first broad government check of library records since the 1970s when prosecutors reined in the practice for fear of abuses.

washingtonpost.com: FBI Begins Visiting Libraries

Bowie: "I don't even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years, because I don't think it's going to work by labels and by distribution systems in the same way. The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing."

David Bowie looks forward to the next music revolution.

David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur

Precrime. It works.

Citizens for a Murder Free America

I tried screaming at my TV, telling the news anchor he was wrong! I have first hand information! Yelling at the newspapers doesn't help much either. Writing on the Web does."

Adam Curry (yes, THAT one) talking about the problems with the mainstream press in the context of a recent assasination in Holland.

DaveNet : Adam Curry: The Big Lie

"As Brin sees it, security and privacy shouldn't be construed as rivals: Instead, he says, everyone will be safer if the government knows a lot -- within reason -- about its citizens, and if Americans know a lot more than they do now about how the government uses their information. "

The anti-cypherpunk philosophy has been gaining ground lately. Its an easy way "out" and people will just give in to it. Information wants to be free...

BW Online | June 5, 2002 | Privacy vs. Security: A Bogus Debate?

Visitors subject to the increased scrutiny will be from countries considered by the United States to be sponsors of terrorism and other unspecified nations that critics said are likely to be Middle Eastern.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Unveils Fingerprint Plan, Angers Arab Groups

Various US Census tables. Some interesting factoids here if you dig...

County and City Data Book: 2000

"The Data Quality Act, along with recent efforts by government agencies to scrub their Web sites of information to guard national security, indicate a substantial shift to a more conservative culture of information, said Darrell West, a political scientist at Brown who tracks government information on the Web. "

Questions About Online Data

Except for Tenet's Friday departure, details were not disclosed for security reasons, including even his precise destination.

Off he goes, but what he'll accomplish, nobody knows. Perhaps his actions will serve to strengthen those who might oppose Arafat in the much-talked-about future Palestinian presidential election.

Tenet to Rebuild Palestinian Forces