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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post on got geoint? Hurricane Earl, a gunman at the Discovery Channel headquarters, Obama trying to broker peace in the Middle East…wow, lot’s happening this week. So much so, that we totally forgot about the three-day weekend that lay ahead of us. Rather than doing another Labor Day FFT post, we decided to dive a bit deeper and highlight the role our 5 (or perhaps 6) senses that we have and how our sense shape our perceptions of the world. Why this topic? Well, it’s kind of cool and hopefully it will give you some “food for thought” as you head off into the weekend.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? We hope everyone had a productive week and are gearing up for back to school time – man, how fast summer flies by. This week’s FFT theme is all about the next generation of GEOINTers and what makes them tick. By better understanding this new generation — many who are enrolling as freshmen in college — we will be better suited to create the next leaders of our community. And, we end this post with the anthem for how to deal with the upcoming generation – treat them right. Happy Friday!

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? As always, we hope everyone had a productive week and is enjoying the final weeks of summer and vacation season. As the GEOINT community knows, it was a very big week. Well actually a very big two weeks. General Clapper was confirmed as the new DNI and Letitia Long was inducted as the new Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), while breaking down major barriers by being the first woman to head an Intel agency. So, this week’s FFT post is all about breaking down barriers and the major strides that women have made. Happy Friday!

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Welcome to the ever famous Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? Hmmm…so what is the big IC story this week? Oh yes, the little story about the leaking of 91,000 secret documents about the Afghanistan war on WikiLeaks. Of course, this made realize that the ideal theme for this week’s FFT post would be all about the leaking of confidential information? Does our human nature make it difficult for us to keep secrets? We try our best to dive into this topic today. Hope you enjoy and happy Friday!

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Welcome to the illustrious and critically-acclaimed “Friday’s Food for Thought” post from got geoint? How many DC-based folks out there were woken up in the early morning hours by the earth quake? Yes, that is right…we had an earth quake. And, last month, the New England area experienced a 5.0 magnitude quake. So, what is up with all the earth quakes hitting the east coast? We hope to explore this further in our earth quake-themed FFT post. Happy Friday and we hope you enjoy.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? We hope everyone is excited for the long weekend, which marks the birth of our great nation. Each year, we typically do a July 4th-only post on the Friday before this holiday weekend, but with the sensational Russian spy story happening, we decided to make the theme all about “old school” spying techniques. So, before you head out to enjoy a weekend of BBQs and fireworks, please read and enjoy.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post on got geoint? They say that an unclever person always brings up the weather when in conversation at parties or events. The sophisticates of the world believe that it is too easy to fall back on talking about the weather, and that we should be able to expound upon current events, arts and literature at any moment. Well, perhaps its because our subscription to The New Yorker recently ran out because the only theme we can think about this week is GEOINT and the heat. Yes, the east coast has experienced its first heat wave of the summer this week — causing children to be sedentary, as well as creating a run on hair products at CVS as many tried to combat any “bad hair trauma” caused the humidity. So, yes, welcome to our “unclever” FFT post all about GEOINT the high temperatures. We hope you enjoy!

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post on got geoint? Monday will officially be June 21st, which is better known as the summer solstice. This special day is the official first day of summer and is also the longest day in terms of sunlight. So, we thought this week’s FFT post theme could be all about summertime and GEOINT. And, remember the time when summer meant things slowed down in business and government? Well, this no longer happens. Lots of things going on in the GEOINT world this summer. We have the NGA West Showcase, the GEOINT Community Career Fair, ESRI International User Conference and much more.

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post on got geoint? As many of our reader’s know, we often make the theme of this weekly post about music. By the way, did you catch last week’s post about the next grassroots movement featuring The Roots? Well, this week we are diving into the world of sports and GEOINT. Why you ask? Well, we actually ran two stories this week about GEOINT and sports: one about Google Earth and the World Cup stadiums and another post about the military taking a page from TV sports. Hope you enjoy!

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Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post from got geoint? We hope everyone had a productive, albeit short work week. Do you all recall our story from last year about two enterprising MIT students who for a mere $148.00 launched a camera to the edge of space and took some amazing photos of earth? Well, the grassroots GEOINT trend has extended into 2010 and, and this time, an MIT student has decided to use a kite string that’s tethered to a helium-filled trash bag and a point-and-shoot camera to take images of the Gulf Coast oil spill. So, this made us think…there truly is a grassroots GEOINT movement happening these days. People need aerial images and information — especially in the face of a disaster — and they are not afraid to go out and get these images on their own. Very cool stuff, and perfect for today’s FFT post theme. Hope you enjoy.

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