Friday, 5 January 2007
User generated smoking guns
Wikileaks wants to be the Wikipedia of leaked documents. They claim to have 1.1 million documents for their launch, all leaked from governments and corporations all over the world. Thus far they have posted a single document on Somalia and and analysis thereof. Secrecy News has more.
A user editable leaks site seems like the 2.0 of The Smoking Gun; but is that a good thing or not? Unlike TSG they have an overtly political agenda, which is pretty hard to keep up in an environment where everyone gets to play. Celebrity scandals and copyrighted material seem like just a couple of the issues Wikileaks is likely to face. On the other hand, a truly uncensorable single point repository for documenting worldwide abuses can be a powerful thing: something Disinformation and TSG have already shown.
More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/user_generated_.html
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