Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ...
by revscat on Sunday August 28, 2011 @11:30AM
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I came in here to post "Wikileaks" as a rebuttal to OP, but I see you have it covered.
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Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ...
by svnk on Sunday August 28, 2011 @12:23PM
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Oh, you mean like how Wikileaks shut itself down for a few weeks until its donation ransom was met?
Re:Now Can We All Agree That The "High Quality Web Content" ...
by pessimizer on Sunday August 28, 2011 @12:48PM
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I'm thinking more about easy to use low footprint FOSS blogging software, cheaper smaller processors, wireless, mesh networking, internationalization, distribution (a la bittorrent, group blogs, arXiv, Wikis, mirroring/CDNs, even '+1'ing, 'like'ing, 'digg'ing and 'stumbling'), encryption, computer translation, etc.
Wikileaks is a fascinating, unpredictable result of the technological amplification of voices going on at a lower level.
edit: I'd rather see a release of their submission engine (or a better one) and an easy way to distribute and hide content in a way that it can't be suppressed by angry governments than to have the entire idea of leaking tied to a single personality - not that I don't like Assange:)