Digital Digs 13/12/10

A micro - digest of what's new and emerging

Social Media Data: The Benefits of Friends
Your mom always told you to share. Now marketers love her for that. We’ve only scratched the service of the value of online connections.
Share Age 

Marissa Mayer’s Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search
Knowing what you want before you do – this is Google’s aim for the future. Are we cool with that?
Go With Google?

5 Crafty Tricks for Creating Killer Photo Memes
Some things to play with over the holidays. Maybe you’ll be the next sad Keanu creator. That guy’s famous.
Knowledge is Hilarious

Top Trends of 2010: Privacy
It was a big deal this year. Look back on the biggest issue the internet presented in 2010, then speculate on what’s going to go down this year.
The What and When of the Internet

Zeitgeist 2010: How the World Searched
A heck of a lot of fun to look at – the top searched keywords in 2010.
Googled

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[Acassandra]

At the Oslo Freedom Forum, in 2010, Julian Assange was asked about the ideology and intended purpose of Wikileaks. This is what he said.

"Our goal is to have a just civilization. That is sort of a personal motivating goal. And the message is transparency..... Gaining justice with transparency. It is a good way of doing that, it is also a good way of not making too many mistakes. We have a trans-political ideology, it is not right it is not left. It is about understanding. But before you can give any advice, any program about how to deal with the world, how to put the civil into civilization. How to gain influence on people. Before you can have that program, first you have to understand what is actually going on.... And therefore any program or recommendation, any political ideology that comes out of that misunderstanding will itself be a misunderstanding. So, we say, to some degree all political ideologies are currently bankrupt. Because they do not have the raw ingredient they need to address the world. The raw ingredient is to understand what is actually happening."

With regards to the situation that erupted recently involving Wiki Leaks - and Julian Assange, Malcolm Gladwell might refer to this as a "tipping point."

To many people in this world Julian Assange is a hero, and yet every hero is human, and each has their weaknesses - their achilles heel. Hopefully the legal team, Mr. Assange and the powerful friends supporting this individual can work together in ways that brings this situation to a place of resolution on a win win level. Although with the stakes being as high as they are, one could suggest that a win win outcome to this and related situations would be a matter for the heavens to orchestrate.