Tasket: A different way to manage your to-do list.

Collaborative ACH: Soon to be deployed to the entire national intelligence workforce, and also to the Web. This Web application encourages objective analysis, enables collaboration and fights groupthink. For more information, email me.

Speechology: Archived videos of campaign ads and debates, analyzed for truth by citizens.

I am a contributing editor for Personal Democracy Forum.

Below is a list of published articles, chapters and essays. All writings, including shorter, one-off posts, are available by clicking the Older/Newer links at the bottom of this page.

Should We Let Apple Decide What We Read?, The Guardian, January 16, 2010

Using the Web for Better Intelligence Analysis, Studies in Intelligence (CIA), Fall 2005
"An outstanding contribution to the future of U.S. Intelligence."--Former CIA Director Porter Goss

The Value of Open Source Information: Two Military Intelligence Coups by the Web
"one of the best blog posts I have ever read about the reasoning behind and process of OSINT."--Mark Drapeau, DoD social software expert

Why I Help the Man, and Why You Should Too
"Seminal...Burton's argument couldn't come at a better time."--Micah Sifry

Congress Reloaded (chapter in Rebooting America)
Congress needs more foresight. Fill it with scientists and young people.

"Obama is all talk" is all talk

I give talks on helping organizations make the most of the Web, from a GenY perspective. Here are some of my recent engagements:

9/20/08: OMBWatch Right-To-Know Retreat: Drafting recommendations for a Web-friendly government

9/11/08: DNI Open Source Conference: Young Analysts On the Value of Open Source | Video (Intelink-U access required) | Related essay

4/13/08: CIA Global Futures Forum Conference: Creating a Global Government Employees Cooperative to Combat International Security Threats

5/3/07: My thesis presentation at NYU's ITP

6.20.09: Newsweek: Wired For a Revolution, on the popular uprising following the 2009 Iranian election

7.23.08: Interview: Mozilla Foundation, But For Government

12.9.07: A Times article related to my recent work with the US Intelligence Community

5.10.07: My thesis presentation at NYU

12.3.06: New York Times Magazine: Open Source Spying, on my work to reform US intelligence