Wikileaks is a new player in the apparently unstoppable trend for information to be free in the modern age. Data is perfectly replicable, sharable, scalable, and virtually free to reproduce or distribute. The scarce resource is no longer information, which flows like water. The resource is our attention and focus. The international hostility to Wikileaks deserves a closer examination. Wikileaks has published cables with additional information on the progress of the war and documentation on international player in geo-political hot spots. They have produced evidence proving the … [Read more...]