Look what's happenin' up the street...got to revolution, got to...

Evading a shutdown, WikiLeaks mobilizes Twitter supporters

Posted By Blake Hounshell 

 

Sunday, December 5, 2010 - 1:58 AM

In a bid to stay one step ahead of the governments, companies, freelance hackers trying to shut down its operations, WikiLeaks mobilized its vast base of online support Saturday by asking its Twitter followers to create copies of its growing archive of hundreds of classified State Department cables.

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As my FP colleague Evgeny Morozov warns, aggressive action like arresting or killing Assange could spawn the rise of a vast, permanent network of radicalized hackers "systematically challenging those in power – governments and companies alike – just for the sake of undermining 'the system'." That could prove an extremely dangerous threat to the global economy and diplomatic sphere.

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I particularly like the part about "radicalized hackers" ... we  can anticipate oligarchical control of the Internet any minute now. 

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And God said ...

... I need something interesting to do this afternoon... I think I will make ...

A tiny chameleon sits on a human thumbnail with room to spare. The minuscule creature is rarely spotted in the wild, and doesn’t need to change colour to help hide from its enemies. British wildlife photographers Matt and Will Burrard-Lucas were lucky to spot the tiny Brookesia during an expedition in Amber Mountain Park, Madagascar.

Picture: burrard-lucas.com / BNPS (via Pictures of the day: 3 December 2010 - Telegraph)

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A Norman Rockwell painting... Southern Justice

Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi) (1965)

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Great Complexities

Tony Schwartz

• On:
 
• Managing yourself,
 
• Organizational culture,
 
• Work life balance

Consider the following qualities:

Confident	Humble
Courageous	Prudent
Tenacious	Gentle
Honest	Compassionate
Decisive	Flexible
Disciplined	Playful
Strong	Vulnerable
Deliberate	Spontaneous
Discerning	Intuitive
Outgoing	Introspective

Which quality do you value more in each pair?

Is there any doubt that most of us tend to choose up sides between qualities, valuing one in preference to its opposite? Or that most organizations often value the whole constellation of qualities on the left over those on the right?

Many companies now build leadership programs around developing "competencies," a list of core qualities they expect all their leaders to embody. It's one size fits all, and the aim is to help people get up to speed wherever they fall short.

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Thank you Rosa Parks

On this day 55 years ago, a woman named Rosa Parks kick-started the modern civil rights movement when the then-42-year-old refused to leave her seat in the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

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Better if we don't name it...

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