The Interweb: WORLDWIDE.

Over the week, the internet has been the main topic of discussion.
The social networking website Twitter and the "non-profit media organization" Wikileaks have been the two sites that we focused on.

Twitter, the 2006 founded website started out looking like a complete failure. Jack Dorsey, the inventor of the huge success that is Twitter "never appeared to expect any more than babble". Of course, Twitter is used for much more than "babble". People are now using it for countless useful things, as well as the unavoidable babble. Celebrities and politicians are using it to try and gain popularity and make them seem more like their countless followers. People in dire situations such as the protests and riots in the Middle East have been using the website to provide information about where to avoid in the streets, or where a protest might be held, and even to describe what is happening during one. Another very useful use is spreading important information such as locations of evacuation centers, or how far away the cyclone is from major cities and towns,as done during the Cyclone Yasi disaster in Queensland earlier this year.

While the success of Twitter is just growing and becoming more obvious, Julian Assange, the founder and head of Wikileaks has been deep in controversy for quite some time now. Wikileaks, the self described "non-profit media organization" is basically a website where people who have access to secret government and military information go to tell the world about it. It is known for being used to post information which is controversial and could cause a lot of trouble to someone. Different people have different views as to if what Julian Assange has been doing is good or bad. I personally believe that overall, it's hard to tell. Some of the things he (and his team) posts are good and can help people, or expose immoral information/footage, but other things that are posted can just cause harm to people. Not all that long ago, Wikileaks posted some footage that had been taken in an army plane of helicopter of a small group of people huddling in a group. The aircraft open fired and killed most of them, while only two of them were suspect in any way whatsoever. This is the awful truth that is modern day American-style warfare. This sort of thing should be seen and known about. On the other hand, Assange has been publishing names of people who seem to be corrupt in the slightest ways, putting them in danger by their government. Wikileaks also occasionally posts things that governments would really not want out there, sometimes even things that could ruin two (or more) nations relations (not that that has necessarily happened - that it is a possibility). So far, what the organisation has done, is, I believe good, but the day that Julian Assange starts a war will be the day his website becomes a hazard.