links for 2008-03-11

• TETRA defends itself against RIM onslaught | The Register
  PR fight (usual mix of incomplete truths, doubts, obfuscation) driven by current NPIA-managed programme to get 10k more handhelds out in police hands by Sep08. Truth is RIM and Airwave are good at different things.
  (tags: airwave blackberry mobbu mobile police criminaljustice via:alexlaurie)
• Stamen punts new approach to data aggregation | The Register
  Good point Mr Carden: "'Give me everything' [...] Let the data choose the questions, he said, rather than the other way around. [...] 'To say visualization has to answer questions would be to miss the trick of looking at the data in the first place'"
  (tags: visualization maps design infovis informationdesign)
• Identity Management Index: Sir James Crosby report: Challenges and opportunities in identity assurance [mar08]
  Crosby believes there's a case for an identity assurance programme [generally disagree], and is pretty critical of the current execution [agree].
  (tags: id security privacy toread politics)
• UNdata
  (tags: reference data infovis)
• Ready to Shoot on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  "Kubrick laid out the shots and storyline for 2001 on cards, to the extent that Arthur C Clarke called him "the Sasco kid""
  (tags: howwework stanleykubrick film)
• Afghanistan - Korengal Valley - United State Military - Counterinsurgency - New York Times
  (tags: war afghanistan via:adamgreenfield)