Wow
Rod Beckstrom has been appointed as the cybersecurity advisor to the White House. He wrote the Starfish and the Spider. All I can say is wow.
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March 21, 2008
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This would have been a really great hire in 2001.
Posted by: Michael Tanji | March 21, 2008 at 09:38 AM
I think he was doing risk management of derivatives back in 2001.
There were only a (or at most a couple of) dozen of us working full time on social software (and exploring how it could be used to power decentralized organizations) back then. It was early days...
Posted by: John Robb | March 21, 2008 at 12:14 PM
For example, check out my early days posts on my old yahoo group called, "K-Logs"
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/message/244
Posted by: John Robb | March 21, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Not doubting the potential effectiveness - applauding the unconventional hire - just bemoaning the compressed time-line.
Posted by: Michael Tanji | March 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM