NASA Watch and the Fifth Dimension

Reader note: regarding comments made at the third annual Project Management Challenge yesterday:

"Bill Gerstenmaier gave a keynote speech where he described the "fifth dimension" of project management (Politics). In the speech he had a chart which showed information flowing from lowly workerbee up to NASA HQ and congress and back down again. Then he added "outside channels" and specifically mentioned "our friends at NASAWatch" and how managers need to be aware that in this information age, much information will go around proper channels. I applaud him for aknowledging that there was no way to stop this and aknowledging that it showed a problem with the communication flow inside of NASA."