Wikileaks? The Truth of it

Do you know what is wikileaks? Have you heard of it?... some may say its similar to wikipedia?...Well this is the real explanation of wikileaks all about.

" WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources to leak information to our journalists (our electronic drop box). One of our most important activities is to publish original source material alongside our news stories so readers and historians alike can see evidence of the truth. We are a young organisation that has grown very quickly, relying on a network of dedicated volunteers around the globe. Since 2007, when the organisation was officially launched, WikiLeaks has worked to report on and publish important information. We also develop and adapt technologies to support these activities". -http://wikileaks.org/About.html

Ever since wikileaks was founded, we started to see what's more than that and we actually know who is the main fault especially like the US and Iraq war... from the video, the US army shooting Iraq people even the innocents ones. Should we say US is right with all their claims on cable tv that Iraq is a terrorist country and have the rights to shoot them all down.... and we think deeply and start analyzing with one simple question "Who started it first?"... People around the world might able to recap the 911 incident that 2 airplanes crashed the 2 state of the art building in New York in 2001...but does that means all Iraqi must die just because of the action done by those terrorism like Osama Bin Laden? Have a look on the videos and decide. 

and this

killing the innocent ones?...

Without this, I would think, people would still only know whatever the authorities reported in news... we would pretty in the dark side of the world and would not know the truth of a problem. People are faced in two different realities which is the collateral damange and also collateral murder which is a very serious matter and people would need to know the truth of it....Personally, I think WikiLeaks indeed exposed the world and people about all the hidden secrets and "more juicy" information that we are not aware of. In fact, WikiLeaks also will be the best source of information that people these days tend to believe more than what is reported in the news or cable TV.....with all the flexibility of accessing Internet everywhere, WikiLeaks will be the best medium to convey all kinds of information that far beyond from what we use to read, listen, watch from the local news.

Another example would be politics, we know politics are dirty and what they tell the public are other way round as well to make the public to believe its true and taking Malaysia into the context, Malaysia kini.com acts similar like WikiLeaks by spreading all the "extra or secret" news that happen to Malaysia especially the politic sides. Well, I would say people are more interested to know the truth in the website rather that reading the daily newspaper because all are covered by the government... it happen not in Malaysia only BUT everywhere..... even the US war with Iraq... that is where WikiLeaks play a role in revealing more juicier information to the world and MOST IMPORTANTLY, they done it with PROOF of video and photos so that their news are credible, thus people would believing it more.

Twitter changed us?

Twitter.....its all about Tweeting

Twitter twitter twitter... everyone is using it... everybody loves to tell the world what is they are doing.... so I am too... we love let people aware of us... for instance, the moment we enter a cafe.... oh there goes our phones and ready to key in "Having Java Chip at Starbucks"..and your friend reply you.. "Wow, rich man".... so there you go, you feel proud that someone notices your tweets....... then more tweets and more tweets when you head on to other location or maybe you saw something funny...and you tweet... "Lame aunty farting behind me"... then as you walking, a hot girl pass by....there goes your tweeting again "Damn..a hot girl pass by, wish to say HI".... ..

OK!!!...

Tweeting will never ever ends; it happens every single seconds, minutes, days..... ever since twitter was introduced in 2006, people were not aware of this service offered as Facebook was so new and demand of registering Facebook were so high and people prefer facebook than Friendster... I repeat!, most Friendster user shift to Facebook when it was introduce to the world. Well, people prefer Facebook due to the fresher look and easy use that time compare to Friendster...However, things changes few years later after the introduction of Twitter..... People prefer conveying simple and short messages yet meaningful in it without the need of wrting long lenghty sentences... "Im Home"...and tweet...there you go... 

Twitter has dramatically changes the way people communicates, as according to Johnson it further explain in few sub categories like:

You need followers..otherwise?  

News and Opinion:

If we see twitter these days, and with the latest smartphones that enable us to tweet more, it makes life easier... looking few years back, where 2006 is the introduction of Twetter, nobody aware of it and most users are only able to tweet whenever they have their computer with them.. I MEAN DESKTOP AND LAPTOP...no no no no IPAD!!.... but now, it makes us to share any information quicker at anytime with the help of latest smartphones technology and application like TweetDeck, Andriod Tweeter , Iphone for Tweeter easier to share our information to among our followers (friends). Furthermore, it makes information (news) to reach faster to others that would help human mankind easier..for instance "Alert, those staying near beach area stay out!..tsunami" or "Tsunami in Pulau Pinang"......short and simple, people would able to know it and react fast to prevent going there.... see.....smartphones+tweeter=bravo.

Searching

Can we call people whom regularly tweets busybody?...Maybe!... just like search engine or weblogs where you look upon when comes to food review or where to go for Christmas, or best Nasi Lemak in Malaysia.... tweeter do provide the similar functions too.... Think again when you checking out your tweets reply and one of your friends mention, "Nasi Lemak @ Ipoh Town best!"... So indirectly you would know where to go when you hunt for Nasi Lemak..... you get feedback and ideas at one go..cool?

Advertising

Twitter nowadays also favor by most organizations because they believe by twitter, it provides a greater way of delivering their message towards targeted audiences which is their followers. Just like Facebook fan page.... lot companies insist people to like their pages and from there on-wards, updates from the company will be notifying in your news feed... simple yet cost free..... as for Twitter, the more followers, it could mean the company itself are more well recognized and even preferred by people.... Imagine a company lets say Samsung. By putting their company profile in Twitter, there are more followers will follow Samsung's profile...so if there is any new product from Samsung, they would tweet it and indirectly, people who follow or added will be notify with latest product from Samsung... lets say the new Samsung Galaxy S III is coming out soon.... so tweeters who follow the profile would first to know Samsung is coming out with new phone... wouldn't that be so much better than sending through Emails where 90% of it people would not even open it because they would think is a JUNK MAIL....? with Twitter, the information can reach in split seconds and best to your potential target audience...

However, Twitter may have the dark side of it especially when comes to privacy... there is no privacy especially with these social networking sites... people from anywhere around the world can just check what are you talking about?. and one thing bad about twitter is, anonymous able to see a person's tweet (messages) without even need to sign in to Twitter. They can just type in the person's name and there it goes with all the tweets mention by a person's profile... so come to think of it.... your profile might be stalked by other people.!!! and another problem is, people these days are so crazy on telling the whole circle of friends on what they are doing... or shall I say attention seeker?    some people would just type in sentences like " I am sad".... and there goes the comment/replies... "How are you?" "Take care friend", "Have enough sleep"... Oh well.... I have nothing to say about this.... =)

In the nut shell, Twitter certainly does improve the way we communicate and most importantly, Twitter or even other social networking has dramatically improve our lifestyle and the behavior of newer generation when comes to communicating with others. It might be a good thing because people constantly share information on what's happening...and indirectly, the messages we see would benefit us and some would even save us from being into the same shoe with other people... just like "OMG! Do not buy phones from this seller Mr xxxx he cheated my money"..... well.... at least I will take precaution when buying phones next time =)