All this talk about the need to "assassinate Assange" ¹ is pretty funny. Some little fascists going ballistic about realizing that their world view doesn't work in the digital age. Try to imagine how stupid they must be to not realize that what's happening is inevitable... that makes me smile, if not even laugh out loud. :D

It is a bit more scary that some of them manage to put big pressure on companies that cowardly refuse to do their job, like Amazon, PayPal and EveryDNS.

But having the library of congress block access to the WikiLeaks website² - that is CENSORSHIP!! That is a government trying to construct the reality they need for themselves. A reality without these very real documents.

Sadly I'm not so "shocked to find countries such as France and the United States suddenly bringing their policies on freedom of expression into line with those of China."³ as the Reporters Without Borders put it.

You may have whichever opinion on Assange you like. And if you think he's acting like a narcisstic popstar, I wouldn't even disagree (actually I'd even start to argue about this being a good thing ;) ). But who cares in the first place? The information is out there, in digital form. It can be easily copied. It can be easily moved around the globe. It is impossible to make this information go away!

And a finnish guerilla gets angry, when brainless ruling idiots start restricting human rights just because they don't understand this! Time to get some tactics from the box of digital guerilla tricks. Yes, being a guerilla in the digital age means that YOU can fight in this war as well as Assange!

1. Spread the IP address of the WikiLeaks entry server: 88.80.13.160 (Reminds me of a former post, in which I told you to "Pursue me for I know something")
2. Provide DNS for WikiLeaks so that people don't have to remember the IP address. For Example you can reach WikiLeaks via http://wikileaks.amette.eu
3. Download insurance.aes256⁴

As the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. #WikiLeaks" ⁵ Oh, and if you are looking for a christmas present for a loved one.. how about a nice USB-stick with insurance.aes256 on it? ;)

German weekly newspaper Die Zeit is bashing WikiLeaks all the time with some arguments that are far from truth or understanding. I once liked that paper and even wikipedia says that it is a liberal newpaper for intellectuals - yeah, you wish! And so far most of germany seems to be talking about how stupid our government looks in american eyes. Even some people I thought are smart don't get what WikiLeaks is about and #CableGate is demonstrating.

WTF?!? Of course I don't need an american diplomat to tell me that I'm ruled by brainless idiots - I know that already.

But I need WikiLeaks to make an american diplomat tell this honestly to the idiots that rule me. So when some politicians lament about world diplomacy never again being the same... YES! That's it! That's the point! I want the people deciding on how stuff is run around the world to be honest to each other, so that they can together find honest solutions. As Assange puts it: "WikiLeaks means it’s easier to run a good business and harder to run a bad business, and all CEOs should be encouraged by this." ⁶ Think of governments as 'businesses' and of honesty as being 'good' (you do agree with the last claim, don't you?).

So when I told you that I think this is brilliant..

Brilliant!! @USAgov admits being a bunch of assholes just because @WikiLeaks is gonna publish some truth. http://goo.gl/ikn7Y :D

...I was very serious about it. No pun intended. Probably due to the length of a tweet just too much of lossy compression for some. Verbose mode: Look! The US goes telling people what it does and how it works - and even before anything is being published by WikiLeaks! WikiLeaks works! It works! *clappinghandsinatotallyinfantileway*

"The point of Wikileaks — as Assange argues — is simply to make Wikileaks unnecessary." ⁷ "[..] if we maximize the reliable, verified information about how the world is working, then we start to produce more sophisticated and intelligent structures that respond to the abuses in societies and also the opportunities there may be in society."⁸

The more we make the ruling idiots think about what they say lie to each other and the people, the better the results of their work will become. They will have to start thinking about their real assignment and stop working only for their own profit, because the people start monitoring them. They can't play their own little conspiratory games in their circle of a few under the cover of being elected. They will be held accountable by the people - bottom up. Power to the people - executed, not abused, by a few. That's the democratic promise, isn't it?

And WikiLeaks is just about that. WikiLeaks works on making the ruling idiots realize that they can't hide anything in the digital age. It forces them to work honestly. Anything you say can come down on you - and if it affects millions or billions of people, then thanks to WikiLeaks it will come down on you one day! "You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so paranoid of itself that it can no longer conspire" ⁹

WikiFest BLN, as was its working name, turned out to be a great event. :)

Afterwards I have to say that this was the perfect occasion to combine some things I love: Open Source, music and Berlin.

Actually I now wonder, if this could be the direction for my blog to go...
... or probably I will just blog what I like in the moment I do it - just as we did at WikiFest. :)

On the last day we decided that WikiFest _is_ BLN and we can drop that addition. Actually I think that Berlin is the only city that can provide for a thing as a WikiFest, a real life wiki, where happens what people contribute. Berlin is the city that is world famous for doing that since the fall of the wall - they just never called it a wiki. Let's keep that spirit for WikiFests as long as the city still allows for it. :)

Next year's WikiFest will be from

note these dates down and be sure to there or be square... ;)

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Photos by mogreens.

This happened actually already last week and I hoped it to happen the week before, but better late than never and it also gets dated back to the 1st of July 2010.

I am now officially an entrepreneur with german government funding. And the plan is "Tiki Farm Cloud Hosting World Domination" That sums it all up and still fits in a tweet - neat, huh? :)

So, lot's of stuff happened in between. Let me tell you how it happened that I was offline for a couple of days. Some people (including my parents) thought that I'm dead because my cell phone battery ran out... sorry for that! :)

I was very surprisingly at a festival, got the legal side of my business all sorted out, made new friends and had my first extended couchsurfing experience...
... so again not much happened actually.. ;)

Yeah, that was a really excellent time I had there at MELT! Festival - I just went there without any ticket or much anything and then I just walked into the festival. You've ever seen Derren Brown? That's what came to my mind when I approached the security guy checking my wrist band. I used my former wristbands from other events for paying like with paper. The security guy even checked my wristband physically and still let me pass. Check this out for seeing what I mean: Derren Brown - "Paying with Paper" ;)

And on the next day the guys from Liverpool, who got me into going there in the first place, found a ticket lying on the ground and decided to give it to me, so I may just be the "luckiest guy of the world". Oh, and I got the label of "unwakeable". ;)

I slept somewhere on the grass most of the time, people even had to leave me lying there because they couldn't wake me after the party was over, but I got a pretty good tan now - you wouldn't have thought that of a geek! ;)

The next two days were then spent CouchSurfing. First one of the friends from Liverpool stayed at my place, then we went around the city for sightseeing with another fellow couchsurfer. Very relaxed and beautiful two days.

A nice tour around the city in which we by the way also got to the c-base in which we will have TikiFestBLN2010 as it turned out. Stay tuned for more information about "WikiDev feat. TikiWiki, DokuWiki, WikiPedia" or whatever we'll call it - I'd still like WikiFest. ;)

A very good weekend with very nice people - thank you all again for everything! :)