Within few hours the wikileak contents were copied by many more sites than Wikileaks had called for. The initial 50 pages were reached quickly, reaching nearly 100 in the early evening. The sites included peoplerule.info, wikileaks.geekview.be, wikileaks.the-secret-world.info. The names of many of these sites "are program".
What is happening? Disregarding the fact what you think about Wikileaks, there seems to be something deeper going on.
It is David against Goliath. Nation states, multi-national companies, international organizations gearing up to mute Wikileaks. But this seems to produce the contrary effect. Even more sites are adopting the content and splitter it throughout the entire net.
It is about leadership. No longer a clear one-way, organisation-focused and often hierarchical leadership can trump and curtail the network-oriented, multi-way, distributed leadership of the wiki and web-world.
Whatever you think and agree or disagree with Wikileaks- this is no longer a phenomena about news and transparency. This is the start of a fundamental discussion about leadership in a web 2.0 world.
I am curious to check out how many sites will be listed when I wake up tomorrow.
