Wikileads

Comment from Erica
Time: June 4, 2008, 2:21 am

1. I’m 24 years old, live in Chicago and am a graduate student in journalism at Medill.

2. News is mostly online, because I spend all day at my computer. I read the websites of the New York Times and Chicago Tribune. I get TIME magazine every week. I check out WV newspapers online for my blog.

3. I’m on Facebook, but that’s about it. I’m not super-involved, but consider myself more of an observer. Except for Scrabulous.

4. I care about social justice, freedom of speech, environmental justice, socioeconomic disparities, etc.

5. Semi-weekly.

6. Through our class website.

7. I think it’s very well done, and you really found a cool niche that’s not being done by anyone anywhere else on the Internet. Your posts are interesting, informative, and usually tell me something new.

8. I know your content doesn’t really make this too easy, but more pictures to break up the text would be nice!

9. As long as you have enough material, I would stay with Wikileaks. If not, I would find either topic interesting.

Comment from Ryan Mark
Time: June 4, 2008, 3:44 am

1. 25, native of Chicago and student

2. News? Chicago Tribune, Digg.com, rss feeds from NYT, various blogs about different subjects

3. I use facebook, del.icio.ous, digg.com and last.fm with friends, I’ve started to use other social networking tools like twitter and ning.com, although i’m not at all active in those communities.

4. I have it in my rss reader and read it once or twice a week

6. you told me

7. lies, secrets, betrayals, provocations. Wikileaks has it all, and you have managed to get some of it to your site. Bravo.

8. yup pictures, follow issues more closely. you could make this a gossip blog about stuff that matters.

9. I think you should stick to wikileaks and the controversies it spawns.

Comment from Jenn
Time: June 4, 2008, 2:09 pm

1. Tell me a bit about yourself. 23, graduate journalism student from Indianapolis, currently living in Chicago

2. Where do you get your news? newspapers, online news

3. Are you involved in any online communities? I use facebook, but mostly just to stay in touch with friends in other parts of the country.

4. What sorts of issues do you care about? I care about social justice, handicapped and disabled issues, LGBT equality and environmental sustainability

5. How often do you visit this site? I look at this site a few times a month

6. How did you first hear about Wikileads? Through class

7. What do you like about the content of this site? I like your analysis of the Wikileaks content

8. What do you think could be improved? agree, more visuals

9. Which of the following would you prefer: a blog dedicated to Wikileaks and the issues surrounding it — this is new and you can be the person to take the lead on the coverage.

Comment from Kerry
Time: June 5, 2008, 7:12 pm

1. Tell me a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do and what brought you to Wikileads today? Include your name if you feel so inclined.
I’m over 40, living in Georgia but originally from NM. I’m a photographer.
A link brought me to this blog today.

2. Where do you get your news? Newspapers, TV news, the radio, online news, or some combination?
Online, radio, newspapers, primarily. I’m not very interested in TV news these days.

3. Are you involved in any online communities? How do you participate? How involved do you consider yourself?
Flickr. I’m in some child photography specific groups there. Moderately involved.

4. What sorts of issues do you care about?
The economy, the environment, universal health care, replacing the current administration with an honest, functional one.

5. How often do you visit this site? Weekly? Daily? Monthly? Did you just stumble across the site today?
This is my first time. But I’ll visit more often.

6. How did you first hear about Wikileads?
Through my daughter
7. What do you like about the content of this site?
I like the variety of coverage.

8. What do you think could be improved?
More graphics.

9. Which of the following would you prefer: a blog dedicated to Wikileaks and the issues surrounding it, or a blog about whistleblowing and government/corporate transparency from a mix of sources, including Wikileaks?
a blog dedicated to Wikileaks and the issues surrounding it; fascinating.

Comment from Adam
Time: June 5, 2008, 9:12 pm

1. 25 year old grad student from Canada
2. Mostly online and in dead tree format.
3. I am not particularly involved online. I run a blog, but I am required to do that. I use the facebooks sometimes and I contribute to this site called the Medill News Service.
4. I care about lost of issues, like what all them scoundrels in government are up to.
5. I read this site when I am bored in class, which is often.
6. I heard about it through the site’s author.
7. I like when you make the scientologists look foolish. those people are way crazy.
8. Could you add more audio slideshows? I can’t get enough of those.
9. I love me some good whistleblowing.

Comment from James
Time: June 9, 2008, 4:58 am

1. 24, graduate student, Chicago native.
2. Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Local News, WBBM Radio, and too many web sites to name.
3. No.
4. Poverty, Education, International Affairs, Media.
5. I think this is visit numero tres or cuatro.
6. I met the site’s author at an interactive class with lots of cookies.
7. Balances reporting on the topic well enough that experts and non-experts would enjoy it.
8. I’m gonna jump on the bandwagon and agree with more visuals, but also anything else that embarrasses or pisses of the “Church” of Scientology.
9. Whistleblowing. Don’t stop snitching.

Comment from 9
Time: August 31, 2008, 12:35 pm

#1: Tell me a bit about yourself.
I am from Oklahoma. I am a high-school drop-out.

#2: Where do you get your news?
From the internet *only*. It is the only place for news that I really trust any more.

#3: Are you involved in any online communities?
No.

#4: What sorts of issues do you care about?
SECRETS. When a government is completely open with it’s people, it is difficult for it to be corrupt. When a government decides to be corrupt, of course it will try to be as secretive about it as possible. The american government as it is right now is one of the most secretive and corrupt governments in existence right now. Since they (among other governments of the world) will not tell us what is really going on, places like wikileaks has to do it for them.

#5: How often do you visit this site?
Once a week probably.

#6: How did you first hear about Wikileads?
I think there was a link to it from wikileaks.

#7: What do you like about the content of this site?
I think of wikileaks kind of like raw data, and wikileads manages it in to a more readable format.

#8: What do you think could be improved?
Nothing really. I do not need tons of pictures like the other people seem to, unless the actual pictures are relevant to the story, for example, pictures that governments do not want released or some thing. But if it is an article on some thing like oil or some thing, I do not need pictures of oil barrels in the article, any one can look up those type of pictures if they want to.

#9: Which of the following would you prefer?
WIKILEAKS only. That is only my opinion of course. But like I said before, I kind of use wikileads instead of having to sift through every thing on wikileaks. Although I still like to read the whole wikileaks article in some thing I am interested it.

Other comments:
I am very cynical when it comes to things like governments, money, power, corruption, secrets, et cetera. I think very many people are actually finding out about lots of corruption around the world. One of the biggest reasons that we know so much is because of the mostly-unregulated nature of the internet. Do you think any mass-media would televise the kind of stuff on wikileaks?? Also, despite that there have been countless movies made that reveal many deep secrets, none (I think) have ever been televised. This is because the mass-media and the governments are best friends. If you have not seen any of these movies, I would start with Zeitgeist (the best one in my opinion); you can watch it right on their website. It talks about things like 9/11, RFID chips, North American Union (trying to merge canada, united states, and mexico in to one country), and basically how we are paying for our own slavery and do not even realized it. It makes you realize that some thing needs to be done very soon…..but in my opinion, probably will not.

Comment from n/a
Time: March 15, 2009, 9:31 am

1. Tell me a bit about yourself. Student at the Danish School of Journalism. Have been reading wikileaks and –leads for some time, and am currently writing a small feature on whistleblowing for a school paper.

2. Where do you get your news? All over the place. Danish, British, German and American newspapers, Danish National Radio and an assortment of online sources, like The Register or Indymedia.

3. Are you involved in any online communities? I write small news bulletins and blog for a small local paper.

4. What sorts of issues do you care about? Heavy stuff – politics, law, economics, science and that sort of thing. On the lighter side I like to write about literature.

5. How often do you visit this site? Probably weekly. But I haven’t known about this site for that long.

6. How did you first hear about Wikileads? Googlesearching wikileaks and the likes.

7. What do you like about the content of this site? The following up on leaks and lawmakers’ acts, adding to transparency. Reading about things I wouldn’t see in a mainstream media news source.

8. What do you think could be improved? Perhaps less emphasis on WikiLeaks as such, and more about whistleblowing and disclosures in general.

9. Which of the following would you prefer: See question 8.

Comment from edgar perla
Time: April 10, 2010, 8:59 am

Hola tengo 40años,soy de El Salvador, me interesó el sitio a raíz del video hecho público del asesinato de civiles por parte del ejercito usaricano. me entere en la revista REBELION.ORG a la que soy asiduo lector. Ahora también Wikileads será una fuente de información importante para mi si ustedes me lo permiten,pasando sus filtros por favor.
le felicito sigan adelante no soy un donante potencial pues no tengo los suficientes recursos económicos para apoyarles, pero si ustedes combaten las injusticias en el mundo atravez de la libre información son mis hermanos.