More on Wikileaks
I posted a bunch of links about wikileaks and other things a couple of weeks ago. Subsequently, a few more links caught my attention but didn't make here because of the end of year rush. So, as I continue to clear my backlog:
A couple of weeks ago, MC Frontalot appeared on a syndicated radio show, The Takeaway, talking about wikileaks. As well as the content of the short peice, I was intrigued by the way the interviewer talked about rap in general and nerdcore in particular, and in the somewhat defensive stance that I seemed to detect in Frontalot's tone.
Morgue had a good post on wikileaks too: Wikileaks: Infowar.
This CNN opinion piece by American media commentator/theorist Douglas Ruskoff offers an interesting viewpoint on the Anonymous #paypack DDOS campaign as well as how those events "point the way toward what a decentralized network might actually look like": Why WikiLeaks hackers are a glitch, not a cyberwar.
While the main buzz seems to have died down a bit (or perhaps just moved from my view), there are still plenty of interesting things coming out. This one was fascinating: WikiLeaks Reveals Details on the Films of Michael Moore and Steven Spielberg. A diplomatic cable claimed that Michael Moore's critique of American healthcare, Sicko was banned in Cuba, while Moore claims it was shown on national TV there. If Moore is correct (and on the balance of liklihood, that seems more likely, it's a fascinating example of an American diplomat lying to his superiors back home in order to bolster the national ideology of the US. More from the Guardian here, including a link to Moore's blog.
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A couple of weeks ago, MC Frontalot appeared on a syndicated radio show, The Takeaway, talking about wikileaks. As well as the content of the short peice, I was intrigued by the way the interviewer talked about rap in general and nerdcore in particular, and in the somewhat defensive stance that I seemed to detect in Frontalot's tone.
Morgue had a good post on wikileaks too: Wikileaks: Infowar.
This CNN opinion piece by American media commentator/theorist Douglas Ruskoff offers an interesting viewpoint on the Anonymous #paypack DDOS campaign as well as how those events "point the way toward what a decentralized network might actually look like": Why WikiLeaks hackers are a glitch, not a cyberwar.
While the main buzz seems to have died down a bit (or perhaps just moved from my view), there are still plenty of interesting things coming out. This one was fascinating: WikiLeaks Reveals Details on the Films of Michael Moore and Steven Spielberg. A diplomatic cable claimed that Michael Moore's critique of American healthcare, Sicko was banned in Cuba, while Moore claims it was shown on national TV there. If Moore is correct (and on the balance of liklihood, that seems more likely, it's a fascinating example of an American diplomat lying to his superiors back home in order to bolster the national ideology of the US. More from the Guardian here, including a link to Moore's blog.
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