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Mr Brooke

Presentation Tune-Ups : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum - 1 views

www.openforum.com/...entation-tune-ups-chris-brogan

wikileaks

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  • Mr Brooke on 22 Nov 10
     
    Some good tips here for presentations.
The Zhan

Obama Turns Down Rumors On Afghanistan, Blasts WikiLeaks - 1 views

obama.net/n-afghanistan-blasts-wikileaks

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov

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  • The President of the United States of America Barack Obama is expressing some of his unfavorable opinions on a website claiming to have secret information about American government policies that are kept from the masses.
  • Tuesday, Obama clearly stated that he is highly “concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information” having to do with the goals and policies of the United States in Afghanistan by WikiLeaks
  • according to Obama as well as anyone who has taken a look at the claims, there is very little new information being represented on the site.
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  • “While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan.
  • In addition, the alleged secret information being leaked by site such as WikiLeaks is information that has already been made public to the men and women of the United States to read about at their discretion.
The Zhan

Wikileaks, causes for concern « Aletho News - 0 views

alethonews.wordpress.com/...wikileaks-causes-for-concern

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 1.3_privacy_anonymity; 1.2_security; 1.11_people_machines

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  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    Brief description of social and ethical concerns wikileaks raises.
The Zhan

WikiLeaks, a Ramayan tale - 1 views

www.livemint.com/...WikiLeaks-a-Ramayan-tale.html

wikileaks; 1.4_Intellectual_Property; 1.1_reliability_integrity; 2.6_pol_gov

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  • The traditional way of gathering news and reporting a story by finding out facts, interpreting them, asking others for corroboration, and organizing the story in a coherent way so that it would make sense and provide context to someone coming across the issue for the first time, were considered quaint
  • n the West, several newspapers had shrunk in size, literally, adopting the Berliner format, as The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal’s international editions did.
  • t was in that environment that WikiLeaks published the omnibus data dump of 92,000 pages of intelligence material about the war in Afghanistan, leaked from the US defence establishment. Finally the middleman was busted: Who needed reporters, those irrelevant intermediaries?
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  • WikiLeaks realized that the mountain of data was meaningless unless someone sifted through the data dispassionately to find out if there was a grand narrative.
  • Raw data alone is often inscrutable, and in the hands of conspiracy nuts, it is worse than useless.
  • Text without context is just words.
  • That explains why WikiLeaks turned to The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
  • WikiLeaks’s decontextualized data dump has created the illusion of advancing our understanding of the war, when it has done no such thing. It has made the coalition’s informants vulnerable— responsible reporters would not have made such an elementary error.
  • The Zhan on 22 Nov 10
     
    An article referring to the extreme decontextualisation and reliability issues of sources presented in WikiLeaks.
Fiche Galinha

Moses' Red Sea Parting Explained by Computer Model : Discovery News - 1 views

news.discovery.com/...moses-red-sea-parting.html

3.8_Spreadsheets_modelling_and_simulations

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  • Moses' Red Sea Parting Explained by Computer Model
  • Fiche Galinha on 16 Nov 10
     
    Science 1 - 0 Religion
  • Tranny Franny on 17 Nov 10
     
    Like ^
Mr Brooke

Continued: Debating the Pros and Cons of Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary « ZERO A... - 5 views

zeroanthropology.net/...-of-wikileaks-afghan-war-diary

wikileaks

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  • Mr Brooke on 22 Nov 10
     
    Some good arguments here and links to further reading
Mr Brooke

Rise of the robots and the future of war | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ary-robots-autonomous-machines

2.6_military

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  • Mr Brooke on 21 Nov 10
     
    Excellent piece on UAVs lots of links and some discussion of ethical issues
Mr Brooke

Schneier on Security: WikiLeaks - 2 views

www.schneier.com/...wikileaks.html

wikileaks

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  • Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10
     
    Some interesting links/comments here. One very good one poiting towards the nature of the leaks being analysis and therefore of dubious "truth"
Mr Brooke

Mapping the Republic of Letters - 1 views

toolingup.stanford.edu/rplviz

3.6_multimedia_digital_media

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  • Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10
     
    Nice visualisation here.
Mr Brooke

China's 18-Minute Mystery - Renesys Blog - 0 views

www.renesys.com/...chinas-18-minute-mystery.shtml

3.4_internet 3.4_Networked_computer_systems

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  • Mr Brooke on 20 Nov 10
     
    Nice level headed account
Mr Brooke

What Google knows about you and how to tweak it - 1 views

arstechnica.com/...ut-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars

1.3_privacy_anonymity

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  • Mr Brooke on 19 Nov 10
     
    Some very useful stuff here and I would recommend you check your settings. I found that I was automatically opted into the Ad tracking!
Mr Brooke

Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds | Politics and Law - CNET ... - 0 views

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1.2_security

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  • Mr Brooke on 19 Nov 10
     
    "Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds"
The Zhan

NGO brands WikiLeaks whistleblowing unreliable - 2 views

www.swisster.ch/...whistleblowing-unreliable.html

1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity 2.6_pol_gov wikileaks

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  • the Swiss branch of Transparency International, an NGO campaigning for more openness and better governance, claims the site is not reliabl
  • "I know other platforms for transparency use it a lot . . . but it’s not based on fact," Anne Schwöbel, director of Transparency International Switzerland told Swisster. "WikiLeaks is not enough for us – we need other sources," said Schwöbel.
  • The Sunshine Press sees its site as a public tool to advance transparency beyond existing freedom of information legislation.
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  • Government officials, corporate whistleblowers and journalists seeking anonymity can upload documents that sit in a queue waiting for a team of professional journalists and anti-corruption analysts to decide whether they should be published. Schwöbel said she could not find out enough about selection criteria used by the editoral board of powerful decision makers.
  • The Zhan on 19 Nov 10
     
    Campaigning group Transparency International Switzerland claims WikiLeaks is not reliable.
El Mexicano Pastiche

Pentagon demands WikiLeaks stuff genie back in bottle - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...wiki_pentagon

2.6_pol_gov 1.4_Intellectual_Property 1.1_reliability_integrity wikileaks

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  • El Mexicano Pastiche on 19 Nov 10
     
    "Obnoxious Pentagon spokesperson issues formal threat against WikiLeaks: Destroy everything, or else." The US Defense Department has formally asked WikiLeaks to delete all copies of military documents it has received and return any documents not yet published. Founder Julian Assange has rejected offer
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