It seems like…

The Army Web Risk Assessment Cell has some new toys with which to track blogs.
Anyone from AWRAC wish to share? I’d love to hear more…

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Top milblogger to return to Iraq as citizen journalist

Ok… so I’m a week late on this one (he announced it last Tuesday on his blog), but for some reason I just got the post in my feeds this morning. Damn you, Bloglines!
Here’s the (not-so) scoop:
“Teflon Don,” the milblogger who regaled us with his impressive prose and chronicles of his deployment to Iraq on [...]

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Don’t create a micro site just because you can

A Web site is a great way for you to get out your message on your terms.
But you should never create one just because you can. You need to have a reason to do so.
Today’s lesson in online communication for the military has been brought to you by the U.S. Army, which recently launched “Grow [...]

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Go Army! Beat Navy!

From Flickr, uploaded by Hoses.

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The Army is blogging!

Kinda.
The U.S. Army has a contestant in this year’s Miss America Pageant — Miss Utah, or Sgt. Jill Stevens. She is a veteran of Afghanistan and a member of the National Guard, and she is blogging about her experience in the competition.
They aren’t calling it a blog, probably as not to intimidate the higher ups [...]

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Fallen Soldiers

Remember those seven Soldiers I wrote about earlier who spoke out against the war in Iraq in a New York Times op-ed?
Two of them won’t be coming home.
The Pentagon has announced that Yance Gray and Omar Mora from the 82d Airborne Division died in a vehicle accident on Monday.
These men were true patriots — fighting [...]

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Army tightening its grip on bloggers?

NETCOM, the Army command responsible for the maintenance and preservation of the military’s online network, has blocked access to Blogger, Google’s popular blogging platform, from government computers, according to Army employees.
Sources tell The D-Ring that Blogger blogs (which can easily be identified because they have the word “blogspot” in their Web address) were blocked for [...]

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From a Pentagon source

On the Army and new media:
“If they can’t blow it up or paint it green, they don’t get it.”
Funny. And, sadly, seems to be true.

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Trophy: Part Three

I first wrote about the Trophy in October, suggesting that the weapon system was being promoted online by tech-savvy supporters and that the Army would not hear the end of the story that was dug up by NBC muckraker investigative reporter Lisa Myers.
It was back in the news in January.
And now, Danger Room is reporting [...]

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OCPA responds to ‘milblog crackdown’

Follow-up from yesterday’s conversation about the new Army regulation and its impact on military bloggers.
The Office of the Chief of Army Public affairs (OCPA) has fully jumped into the discussion about AR 530-1 and its impact by putting out this one-pager on the issue.
I think the key point is here:

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