Logically speaking, if Wikileaks is a criminal organization, then the New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and The Guardian are too (they have been working with criminals) and should be blamed for complicity.

Aware that Islam is the most volcanic taboo in Morocco’s society, M.A.L.Is did not choose provocation deliberately. What they were bent on doing was to act as the mirror of “the provocative contradictions of Morocco’s social, religious and institutional fabric.”

According to The New York Times the online whistle blower organization WikiLeaks plans to publish an extensive amount of confidential documents from the US military Saturday. The disclosure once again stirs up a debate about the legitimacy of WikiLeaks.

Many small- and medium-sized non-profits have been criticized for their inefficient and outdated methods of advocacy. What does it look like when organizations start taking social media and technological innovations by the reins?

How do we engage online audiences so that they advocate our cause? What do we do if they steer off message? And what do carrotmobs have to do with any of this.

Five easy pieces… or some of what I read in the news today.