WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker: "NO SECRETS
Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.
by Raffi Khatchadourian"

WikiLeaks is not quite an organization; it is better described as a media insurgency.

...a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian#ixzz0s3YufzzN

Part of the article reads like something from a recent William Gibson novel, and the rest is an interesting portrait of Assange.

Mick Gzowski on online reputation management

The un-Googling of Mick Gzowski - The Globe and Mail

Denise Brunsdon, director of social media for the public-affairs firm GCI Group, says online reputation management is one of the fastest-growing areas of their business. It seems like whenever she tells people her title these days, she gets asked if she can do another contract.

As Gzowski shows in this article, online reputation is something many individuals and organizations want to control or manipulate. Being able to do it or help others do it has become an occupation in itself.
And by writing this blog post about this article, I may be helping Gzowski improve his own online reputation.

Social Media for Higher Education

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