This pretty much sums it up:
I’ll be back online after Labor Day. In the meantime, here are two fun short books/essays that you should go read:
Heather Brooke’s “Assange Agonistes”–The noted muckraker, whose digging led to breaking open the British Parliamentary expenses scandal, chronicles her convoluted collision last year with Julian Assange, and discusses how it was that she came to obtain her own leaked copy of the State Department cables and to work with the Guardian on its WikiLeaks coverage. If you are, like me, a WikiLeaks junkie, you will want to read Brooke’s side of the story.
Becky Hogge’s “Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia”–An intimate journey through contemporary hacker culture, told by the former director of the Open Rights Group. All kinds of fun people make appearances through this diary/meditation, including Assange, Cory Doctorow, Stewart Brand, Rop Gonggrijp, Ethan Zuckerman and others. As current as Brooke’s report but with a broader scope. Hogge makes a free version available to read online but just give her the cash.