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Why Noah Shachtman is a great journalist

Posted in Harpers, Outreach, PAOs, Pentagon on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »

This morning, I read Ken Silverstein’s latest contribution to Harpers Magazine criticizing the Pentagon’s blogger engagement program. He says that the program is designed to preach to conservatives and administration champions (even though I mentioned this week that I am on the list and by no means a conservative).
I was all set to critique his [...]

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Who is Scott Thomas?

Posted in Fabrication?, Soldiers, The New Republic on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Inquiring minds want to know…
This first came to my attention from a link on the Drudge Report this morning to an article in the New York Times. It appears to be another mainstream media scandal in the making, with people openly questioning the veracity of a supposed Soldier diarist currently deployed to Baghdad and writing [...]

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How Harpers sensationalizes blogger outreach

Posted in Bloggers, Harpers, Outreach, Public Relations on July 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »

A journalist has tried to shine a spotlight on the Pentagon’s blogger relations program — and failed miserably.
Recent postings to Harpers.com (here and here) by Ken Silverstein suggest that the Pentagon is engaged in a propaganda campaign, managed by junior political appointees, to seed its message among conservative bloggers.
As someone who has participated in the [...]

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Please… avoid the sex jokes…

Posted in Air Force on July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »

…Because the Air Force is getting close to launching “Cyber Command.”
Air Force Cyber Command is creating a foundation now for the combat Airmen of today and tomorrow, said Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder Jr., commander of 8th Air Force here and the joint functional component commander for Global Strike and Integration for U.S. Strategic Command [...]

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D-Ring News Wire

Posted in D-Ring, News on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Military files left unprotected online
Mike Baker, Associated Press
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a new fuel farm at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The military calls it “need-to-know” information that would pose a direct threat [...]

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Bad form, CBC

Posted in Canada, Television on July 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Canadian Broadcasting — what were you thinking?
Sorry, Noah.

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Military misunderstanding by danah boyd

Posted in Facebook, MySpace on July 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »

So while I was busy getting my affairs in order to close on my first home (yes, I am now officially a home owner!), I missed the big buzz around the danah boyd (all lowercase) blog essay about the social divisions inherent between MySpace and Facebook. For those who haven’t read the essay, she is [...]

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Military Motivator

Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »

You’ve probably already seen it, but in case you haven’t you need to check out Military Motivator. This site falls in the category of “it’s funny ’cause it’s true.”

Added it to my RSS feeds.

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AFN Hawaii advances new media (unofficially)

Posted in Military, New Media, PAOs, Web 2.0, Web site on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

A while ago, I was pointed to the new (unofficial) site created to promote the news and events of U.S. Pacific Command. It was created by enterprising folks from AFN Hawaii, probably because the command’s official position was to fear new media and not embrace it.

The site takes advantage of multi-media in an incredibly successful [...]

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