{"id":4257,"date":"2010-12-09T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2010-12-09T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:45:29","slug":"repost-the-web-will-eat-itself-over-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/09\/repost-the-web-will-eat-itself-over-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: :: The Web will eat itself over WikiLeaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I realize there are other events taking place in Tech Land these days. Google, for example, seems determined to roll out a new operating system every damned day &#8212; Gingerbread [10], Honeycomb [11], Chrome [12], and so on. But I can&#8217;t stop thinking about WikiLeaks.<br \/>\nWhy? Because this is the single most important story to hit the Internet ever. It dwarfs the Drudge Report&#8217;s Monica Lewinsky scoop, the Twitter anti-Tehran uprising, and even the Pam Anderson sex video. Never before has a small band of whatever-you-want-to-call-thems taken on every major nation simultaneously, twisting them into knots. But thanks to the distributed nature of the Net, they have &#8212; and I suspect they won&#8217;t be the last.<br \/>\nAlso: Journalism as we knew it is over. No more trade-offs between revealing some things while keeping other information private, of choosing between the necessary secrets governments must keep and the public&#8217;s right to know &#8212; it&#8217;s now a free-for-all.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/print\/145902\">The Web will eat itself over WikiLeaks<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize there are other events taking place in Tech Land these days. Google, for example, seems determined to roll out a new operating system every damned day &#8212; Gingerbread [10], Honeycomb [11], Chrome [12], and so on. But I can&#8217;t stop thinking about WikiLeaks. Why? Because this is the single most important story to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/09\/repost-the-web-will-eat-itself-over-wikileaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: :: The Web will eat itself over WikiLeaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}