I found this post in my draft folder. I must have written it last summer. It is just a fragment at the moment, not a real essay, probably not even a proper blog post.  It is not finished but somehow I am not motivated to work on it at the moment and before it becomes [...]

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The media is all over wikileaks and cablegate. But, as usual, they might miss an important part of the story. There seems little understanding about what exactly wikileaks stands for and where it comes from. A good start is to read Julian Assange’s archived blog “Interesting Questions” which he wrote between 2006-2007. If you want [...]

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“Us Now” is an interesting documentary about “the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.” (via) Although most examples are well known (at least among “political web 2.0 geeks” …), the film provides a good overview about different collaborative internet projects and how politics might change in the future: In a world in which [...]

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