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.