John Donovon Reports From Vegas
Here's the link to his blog:
Blogworld Expo
IMHO, Blogworld Expo will have more influence on the future of milblogs than MBC II did.
I intend to post links to various milblogs reporting from Blogworld Expo on this thread. Seems to me SWC Blog Watch is a more appropriate repository for such than my own blog. More likely to be seen here, anyway.
ArmyWifeToddlerMom Community Live Blogging from Las Vegas Blogworld Convention
Community Live Blogging from Las Vegas Blogworld Convention
Best line from above:
"if the PAO's were doing their job, blogs might not be needed."
Much that should be done in counterpropaganda/strategic communications is not being done, for a variety of reasons. Who should be doing it is less important than getting it done.
TF Boggs Blogworld Wrap-up
Blogworld Wrap-up
I came to realize that there is a lack of soldiers sharing quality writing about their experiences overseas. The fact that professional writers are traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan to cover the sorts of things that I as a soldier take for granted is a shame.
Professional writers aren't the only writers. Irregular pamphleteers are producing products, too.
Liveblogging from Vegas III
Milblogging Panel 3: From the Front
Gordon: My mission was to tell the story. I wanted to talk about what was happening in my area. I was in Anbar and watched the entire area transform before my eyes. One instance, a PAO was escorting a journalist and was killed by an IED. She had done a lot of work to represent Ramadi. The journalist getting killed got mentioned but the PAO's work didn't get mentioned. I regret that I didn't write about her and her good work.
Photos From Glenn Reynolds
blogs, yes--psyops, not really
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Cannoneer No. 4
That ideological filter weeds out quite a few who are pre-disposed to be alienated.
My comment, of course, was in the context of whether bloggers make effective civilian volunteers in support of national IO and PSYOP campaigns--in which case you precisely don't want to filter out those who are undecided or slightly tilted against the views you are trying to sell.
Don't get me wrong: I'm an avid reader, and user, of milblogs, for both research and teaching purposes--as I am of aidblogs, and the truly fascinating SRSGblog of former UN Sudan envoy Jan Pronk (which got him in more than a little trouble). All power to those who spend the time to blog, yourself included.
However, I am very doubtful regarding the viability, effectiveness, or even desirability of independent blogs serving as "distributed information operations by domestic PSYOP auxiliaries."