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Morozov (via Catherine) The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over
 
Morozov (via Catherine) The age of the WikiLeaks-style vigilante geek is over
 
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/age-wikileaks-style-vigilante-geek-over
 
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/07/age-wikileaks-style-vigilante-geek-over
*In this respect, WikiLeaks (at least in its current incarnation) embodies an ideology that can only be called anti-web 2.0: they value professionals over  
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*In this respect, WikiLeaks (at least in its current incarnation) embodies an ideology that can only be called anti-web 2.0: they value professionals over amateurs and explicitly reject the "anyone can edit" ethos of Wikipedia, believing that waiting for this mystical "anyone" is like waiting for Godot.  
 
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amateurs and explicitly reject the "anyone can edit" ethos of Wikipedia, believing that waiting for this mystical "anyone" is like waiting for Godot.  
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Wagner James Au
 
Wagner James Au
The great thing about SL is you meet an insanely diverse amount of people in there. Which is how I got this first-hand report from the streets of Cairo from  
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The great thing about SL is you meet an insanely diverse amount of people in there. Which is how I got this first-hand report from the streets of Cairo from an Egyptian artist into Nubian hiphop steampunk in Second Life.
 
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an Egyptian artist into Nubian hiphop steampunk in Second Life.
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*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/02/egyptian-steampunk-on-anti-mubarak-uprising.html
 
*http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2011/02/egyptian-steampunk-on-anti-mubarak-uprising.html
  

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