The New York Times Magazine ran a fascinating story on the government intelligence community. For years, living with Cold War era thinking (if not technology), the government acronyms (DIA, CIA, NSA, FBI) have recently been attempting to turn the boat. Some of the more forward thinking have recommended and tested the use of blogs and wiki for intelligence sharing. The first sets of results are compelling: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/magazine/03intelligence.html.