8.24pm: Michael Calderone plucks out an interesting nugget from Julian Assange's Time interview. Originally, Assange and WikiLeaks expected that its document treasure trove would be mined by bloggers and interested parties, rather than professional journalists:
When we first started, we thought we would have the analytical work done by bloggers, and people who wrote Wikipedia articles, and so on. And we thought that was a natural given that we had lots of quality, important content. Surely it's more interesting to write an article about top-secret Chinese [inaudible], or an internal document from Somalia, or secret documents revealing what happened in [inaudible], all of which we published, than it is to simply write a blog about what's on the front page of the New York Times, or about your cat or something, but actually it turns out that that is not at all true.That might explain Assange's "media strategy" of first giving access to the material to media organisations such as the Guardian and New York Times.
7.58pm: At last, here is confirmation from WikiLeaks that Amazon did pull the plug today on hosting its websites, via its @wikileaks Twitter account:
WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free - fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe.
