tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post1170644321970917796..comments2023-09-15T09:56:16.253-03:00Comments on Composing: Composinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01739889615635395138noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148972.post-66740075424075555952010-12-02T03:06:32.821-02:002010-12-02T03:06:32.821-02:00Wanted to put out a couple more links. Ethan Zuck...Wanted to put out a couple more links. Ethan Zuckerman tackles the problem with <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/12/01/if-amazon-has-silenced-wikileaks/" rel="nofollow">Amazon</a> stopping hosting WikiLeaks and the broader implications for free speech.<br /><br />Zuckerman also provides some fascinating information about the DNS attacks which go to topic of super-empowered individuals.<br /><br />That latter subject is taken up in a great article by Felix Stalder <a href="http://www.metamute.org/en/articles/leaks_whistle_blowers_and_the_networked_news_ecology" rel="nofollow">Contain This! Leaks, Whistle-Blowers and the Networked News Ecology</a>. <br /><br />Stalder's piece points out with the consolidation of media journalists are fed a diet of "official" leaks and insider information. He point to journalist enbedded in the war. So the hope is that so called "New Media" might fill the gap made by lazy journalism. <br /><br />But he makes the point that old media isn't gone so the relationship between the new and old is worth examining as a "networked ecology."<br /><br />Stalder also reflects about how modern work leads to WikiLeaks.<br /><br />The meaning the words ethics and morality are hard to pin down. but perhaps a distinction can be made that morality has to do with how we treat one another-who we are as human beings--and ethics about how we ought to live. <br /><br />Assange talks about ethics. But in the background to that is the moral sphere. Stalder doesn't use the word but does address a structural transformation with ramifications to morality brought on in part by new information technologies.John Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17126222842766191343noreply@blogger.com