WikiLeaks has been all over the world news headlines this past week after the Daily Beast reported that Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning released 260,000 classified documents to the controversial journalism network. Wired.com has followed up on story with reports about Manning’s conscience and WikiLeaks’ intention to provide him with legal help. In related news, [...]
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WikiLeaks: The Beginning of the First-Ever Golden Age of Journalism
Now that I’ve emerged from my symbolic journey through the desert that took place over the last few months, I need to start cracking away at a variety of topics that have sparked my interest lately. The timeliest of those topics is WikiLeaks, a site that I heard about a few weeks ago via an [...]
The Cunning of Desire
Aside from The Outsider and Tropic of Cancer, the other life-changing book I read this year (yes, it’s been a big year of reading discoveries) was Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown. I actually heard about it last fall, when I bought a large book on Stanley Kubrick as a Christmas present for my [...]
Copyleftism
It’s time that I got into more modern publications and topics. Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford Law professor and a popular blogger. He helped found Creative Commons, which affords creators partial protection on their work in a way that will encourage further creativity and progress. He wrote a book entitled Free Culture: The Nature and [...]
