The Huffington Post is an internet newspaper filled with blogs, video blogs, etc. The excerpt was most likely published here because the is a newspaper that informs readers a lot about interesting articles for media and today’s technologies and what it is affecting, positively and/or negatively. Since the article is about WikiLeaks, it seems very appropriate to have on the Huffington Post. Also, this site is very well known to give a different perspective than what you read in the older newspapers.
Micah L. Sifry is an author of a book about WikiLeaks. He was a man who was holding a gathering of the Personal Democracy Forum conference and he wanted to invite the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to speak.
WikiLeaks is not a Wiki. It has no ties to Wikimedia at all. It is its own website. It’s important to know basic background of the company and who it is not affiliated with. Just so there is no confusion, misinformation, etc.
His main argument is that the age of transparency is upon us. Anything and everything that is in digital form is not safe from being kept secret fr4om the public. Nor should it be “illegal” to release some information about what is really going on in the world. He warns that your personal computer is not really personal when it comes to all of the sites we visit and use on the Internet.
I like how Sifry doesn’t really point fingers at Assange. Yes, he was a little upset by the fact that Assange “could not” attend the gathering in Barcelona but that’s beside the point. I like how he commends the idea of there being more contributions to unraveling the truth about our nations politics, military and so forth.
WikiLeaks is a Wiki in a sense of the flow of incoming information, but not in the editorial process…
I agree with the idea of more transparency. The truth needs to be told.