The cloud press

Stephen Baker points to an illuminating, and troubling, report on the current state of electronic publishing by Newsweek COO Joseph Galarneau. This past week, amid the controversy surrounding Wikileaks' publishing of confidential messages from US diplomats, Amazon.com tossed Wikileaks off of its cloud computing service. Wikileaks, the company said in an announcement, had violated at least two clauses in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer agreement: AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of...