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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Blogtipping: Fewl.net

Under the category of new-to-me-milblogs, check out fewl.net, a blog written by a sailor stationed in Japan.
One of my favorites is his redacted blog post, poking fun at blog censorship:

The rest is just as good. You won’t be disappointed.

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Color me impressed, Navy

As a former Army guy, it usually gives me great pains to give props to the Navy.
Not this time.
I’ve got to say that I am thoroughly impressed with an official blog started aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer. The Destroyermen is a blog written by crew members who want to give a realistic, unvarnished view [...]

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DOD New Media PR for… DOD New Media!

What a better way to shill for your new media practice than with a YouTube video?

In all seriousness, OSD has made some major strides in terms of use of online communications in the last two years. Perhaps the Pentagon’s greatest success is the way it has leveraged online video content — making it accessible through [...]

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Two ways to get through the USAF blog filter

Want to read blogs that are getting blocked by the US Air Force? Here are two ways to circumvent this boneheaded decision:

Use RSS. Noah recommended this approach, and it works well. He also notes a shortcoming; embedded images, audio and video will not get through, only text. Noah mentioned Feed Deamon and Google Reader. Others [...]

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Stupid move, USAF

But great reporting from Noah.
The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word “blog” in its web address. It’s the latest move in a larger struggle within the military over the value — and hazards — of the [...]

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A new must read

I don’t know Guy Hagen, but I must say I am impressed with him.
Guy is the president of Innovation Insight, a Florida company that specializes in technology development and research consulting. He has a great post on military and new media communication. I’d encourage that you read it.
I am not sure I fall in line [...]

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Army Major Blogged About His Death

From AP (via Breit Bart):
DENVER (AP) - Maj. Andrew Olmsted’s “Final Post” was published online—after the Rocky Mountain News blogger was killed in Iraq. Olmsted died Thursday with another soldier, Capt. Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque, when rebels attacked with small arms near Sadiyah, the military said.
Olmsted, who began writing for the News on [...]

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Weblogs a decade old

Dear Pentagon,
I think these “weblog” thing that the kids are talking about on the Inter-tubes are catching on.
From BBC:
The word “weblog” celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997.
The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page.
The word [...]

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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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