Check out my SpySpace page

Not really, but apparently spies are blogging for each other. And apparently there's a Secret Google or actually Secret Wikipedia called intellipedia, which is one of the things I'd always thought was there already. Type in a name of someone interesting--like, say, Firas Tlas---and you would get all the really juicy top-secret results and not just Debka craziness.

I mean, I'm not an intelligence analyst or anything but it seems like a basic technique that bloggers and journalists use to magnify the value of data. I hear that Norman Hsu was found in the home of Joe Blow, or that a suspected bomber was arrested at 666 Sesame Street, I'm up firing up the google toolbar for connections there. Sort of like how the Goose Creek bombers had that house connection to Sami al-Arian, you know? Or Norman Hsu's business traced to the Midtown Manhattan Public Library?

I would have to imagine it would help give some context to a specialist in one area who is learning about a new and unusual connection between groups. If an analyst for the U.S. Secret Service finds out a counterfeiter they're tracking met with someone else, that specialized analyst might recognize the name of a supplier of counterfeit inks but he might not recognize the name of a nuclear scientist. Someone in the intelligence community might put those two together eventually, but this might help it happen a lot faster.

The article predicts some turf battles over the information contributed to general knowledge, but that's understandable. Turf battles happen in regular blogging, although when you have to justify your budget to Congress they take on a new meaning.

So I guess they should really remember to hat tip.