Wikileaks gets kicked off Amazon, Every DNS and Paypal, overloads the Guardian website, changes both journalism and government forever. Particularly see Zunguzungu on the motives of Julian Assange - "to destroy this invisible government" - and Scott Adams who thinks the US government staged the whole thing.
Groupon makes the astonishing decision to turn down six billion dollars.
England makes the schoolboy error of failing to bribe FIFA; Russia and Qatar do not. One commentator suggests that the FIFA execs watching at Prince William, Beckham and Cameron were playing the quickest game of "marry one, shag one, chuck one off a cliff" ever.
Posettigate ends with a whimper; Chris Mitchell's professional reputation somewhat the worse for it, Australian press freedom considerably more so.
Facebook is now "worth" $50 billion - some thoughts on how and why.
Taleb predicts the end of nation states, currencies, companies, most current technologies.
danah boyd has new research on the psychology of bullying.
A UK blogger makes a paywall work; The Telegraph will have a stab at one next year too.
The US military's most powerful computer is a Playstation.
Iceland crowdsources a new constitution.
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