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Bill Keller’s keynote speech at the Secrecy and Journalism in the New Media Age conference garnered a lot of attention Thursday after the New York Times executive editor made a notable distinction between himself and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: “ I don’t regard Julian Assange as a kindred spirit. If he’s a journalist, he’s not the kind of journalist that I am
Bill Keller on how WikiLeaks has evolved, the NYT reporting process, and threats to national security » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
Columbia Journalism School (@ColumbiaJourn) presents a conversation about the latest developments in the Wikileaks controversy and what they mean for journalists and journalism.
Wikileaks What It Means for Journalism 12/17/2010 - ColumbiaJournalism | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio
結局のところ、日本人にとっては世界情勢よりも自分の快楽を満たすことのほうが重要だ。 なぜならば、彼らにはキリスト教やイスラム教特有の、「性的に自分を律する」ような価値観はない。日本人の多くは、ある意味において、無神論者であり、行動原理は隣人の監視、つまり「他人から同見られるか」原理主義者なのだ。
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WikiLeaks: The revolution has begun – and it will be digitised | Heather Brooke | Comment is free | The Guardian
Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
Twitter Explains Why #WikiLeaks Isn’t Trending
Twitter has finally responded to numerous accusations that it has been purposely keeping #WikiLeaks and related hashtags out of its Trending Topics list . Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner just published a post on the microblogging service’s blog that more fully outlines how Trending Topics are determined on Twitter.
The Internet may be working to take WikiLeaks offline, but the site's contents aren't going to disappear, thanks to hundreds of mirrors that popped up over the weekend. But even though more than 200 sites around the world now host the controversial leaked documents, WikiLeaks may face an all-too-familiar funding problem if it wants to continue publishing new leaks.
WikiLeaks mirrors multiply as main funding source gets cut off
WikiLeaks Archive — Julian Assange Issues Warning - NYTimes.com
On Monday, as Mr. Assange’s lawyers said he would meet with the British police about criminal charges involving sexual encounters in Sweden, Attorney General said the Justice Department had “a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature” into the WikiLeaks matter. “I authorized just last week a number of things to be done so that we can hopefully get to the bottom of this and hold people accountable,” he said at a news conference, declining to elaborate.
Julian Assange denied bail over sexual assault allegations | Media | The Guardian
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said last night it would not to be gagged by the imprisonment of its founder, Julian Assange , after a judge refused him bail at a dramatic extradition hearing in London.
Now we know, from the granular picture of engagement-in-action that emerges from that trove of 250,000 cables, many from the first 13 months of the Obama presidency.
Cables Suggest Obama’s Wide Range of Engagement - NYTimes.com
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