SUNDAY RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
Rob<\/strong> at Businesspundit<\/a><\/strong> gets pride of place today as he launches a volley against the wisdom of crowds and emerging long tails with “The Wisdom of Niches: Why Experts Still Matter<\/a>“.<\/p>\n I take issue with Rob’s generalization of the relative value of depth and breadth but this contrarian post is one that deserves wider play in the blogosphere. It was excellent.<\/p>\n Peter Lavelle<\/strong> of Untimely Thoughts<\/strong> <\/a>has his weekly round-up of expert opinion in ” Is there a post-Soviet teleology? <\/a>“. Closely related, at America-Russia.net<\/a><\/strong>, is “Putin’s China visit shifts power<\/a>” on Putin’s summit with Hu that emphasized a ” strategic partneship” revolving around energy market access and develpment as peer to peer military cooperation.<\/p>\n This is New Core integration and the United States should play a more active part in it – for that matter, it would be good to actually develop an engaged relationship with Russia rather than playing reactive, ad hoc, diplomacy.<\/p>\n Paul D. Kretkowski<\/strong> at Beacon<\/strong> <\/a>posts on “Public Diplomacy and the Video Gamer <\/a>“. Hmmm, perhaps Everquest<\/a><\/strong> and World of Warcraft<\/strong> <\/a>can win the war on terror.<\/p>\n Former DIA analyst, Rick Francona<\/strong> at Middle East Perspectives<\/a><\/strong> deciphers the DoD’s”Iraq Perspectives Project<\/a>“.<\/p>\n That’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SUNDAY RECOMMENDED READING Rob at Businesspundit gets pride of place today as he launches a volley against the wisdom of crowds and emerging long tails with “The Wisdom of Niches: Why Experts Still Matter“. I take issue with Rob’s generalization of the relative value of depth and breadth but this contrarian post is one that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}