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Technology News Department: The Ushahidi blog introduces Crowdmap. Mashable on how to avoid a social media disaster. Saudi Arabia is allowing Blackberries again. The Economist reflects on Spies,...
View ArticleWikileaks and Cablegate
First, a quick round up of the five media outlets that got this latest set of leaked diplomatic documents from Wikileaks: The New York Times (more here). The Guardian. Der Spiegel. Le Monde. El Pais....
View ArticleJulian Assange, Warfighter? Is This Anything?
Sweden has issued an arrest warrant for Julian Assange (albeit for rape), and Interpol is currently hunting him. Presumably if he is apprehended other nations affected by the recent Wikileaks releases...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day, Wikileaks, the upcoming referendum on South Sudan, and other...
World AIDS Day: Do Microbicides Offer Hope for HIV in Africa? Does the world need more AIDS targets? South Africa Marks World AIDS Day. Uganda: Striving to Provide First, Second And Third-Line ARVs....
View ArticleTalking Turkey: Turks react to Wikileaks
“So, who said government officials are dull, dry and boring people whose prose would only make you wish to sleep?” begins my favorite Turkish commentary on Wikileaks, “Some American ones, at least, can...
View ArticleLorne Michaels, Please Forgive Me
I have been discovered, unmasked, and publicly humiliated, and so I must confess forthwith and apologize to Lorne Michaels of NBC’s Saturday Night Live without further delay for an egregious act of...
View Article“Making the World Safe for Promiscuity”
Someone sent me a message on Facebook asking me about my thoughts on same sex attraction, and the ex-gay issue. I’ve been mulling over a response to that (both a shorter one that I’m overdue to send...
View ArticleExcellent points made by “The WikiLeaks Guy”
I really like this essay written by Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks: Don't Shoot the Messenger for Revealing Uncomfortable Truths It was published in The Australian on December 8, 2010. I can't...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind the Wikileaks Reaction?
Let’s review some of what we’ve seen happen to Wikileaks in the past week or so. Julian Assange’s personal legal defense fun has been frozen by a Swiss bank, funds that no-one has suggested were...
View ArticleWho Is Anonymous?
In the past couple of days, we’ve seen a bit of a reaction to the efforts of financial firms trying to shut Wikileaks down.”. Visa and Mastercard saw distributed denial of service attacks on their...
View ArticleWikileaks, the hacker ethic, and cyber warfare
Since the computer angle of this story is the one that lies closest to my own professional interests, I figured I’d do a round up of some of the articles and posts covering that angle. Der Spiegel...
View ArticleIndividuality, Information, Privacy, Property? Is This Anything
In a comment reply to our good Janice I tried, not very rigorously, to make sense of the relationship of ourselves as a society of individuals accorded a certain integrity of unique, individual...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Anonymous for a Second
The first rule about doing anything anonymously is that you don’t brag about or discuss what you’re doing anonymously to anybody under any circumstances. It’s the fast path to being unmasked. Or as was...
View ArticleGiving the Devil Benefit of Law
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws,...
View ArticleGhana and the fight against corruption
In Ghana, former President John Agyekum Kufuor slammed Tuesday’s Wikileaks story in the Guardian, WikiLeaks cables: UK’s anti-drugs fight in Ghana ‘beset by corruption’. In one sense, if you’re reading...
View ArticleMeta-Wikileaks (in which I round up Wikileaks stories that have nothing to do...
The US government is looking into building a case for conspiracy between Assange and Manning; if they can make the case that he was an active conspirator in arranging the leak, rather than simply a...
View ArticleSome Minor Updates
Wikileaks The New York Times Editorial page has taken notice of the financial institutions that have arbitrarily cut off my and your ability to donate to Wikileaks if we so choose. But a bank’s ability...
View ArticleEuro Crisis Update
I’m going to divide this one by country. Greece: The Euro crisis focus has moved on from Greece, first to Ireland, and then, after the rescue package for Ireland, to the question of whether Portugal or...
View ArticleWikileaks on Greece
After everyone else seems to have forgotten about it, the Wikileaks diplomatic cable release is now big in the Greek news, as cables get released that include evaluations of Greek politicians and...
View ArticleRemember WikiPRISMLeaks?
No? Perhaps because it hasn’t happened yet. It isn’t scheduled to happen until next week, or perhaps the week after that. One excellent testimony to a perennial charge that the more we collectively...
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