Defending Milblogging
The possible end of army milblogs will not be accepted without serious discussion. Blackfive has enough links to get you informed about the need to keep the milblogs alive.
Laughing_Wolf has been working with others on a paper looking at how the army can bring their communications into the Web 2.0 21st Century.
The military is good at blowing things up. It’s the info war they’re having trouble with. Andi at Newsbusters.org writes,
I understand that it takes a while for a big bureaucracy, such as the Department of Defense, to embrace new mediums, and I have been heartened by their efforts, albeit slow, to use blogs, new media and other forms of technology to engage the public, but stories like this one leave many feeling that we’re taking one step forward and two steps back. It’s a difficult balance and it’s going to take some time to get it right. The problem is, of course, that we’re running out of time to get it right.
