Courtesy of JD, I was reading Mark Glaser's account of American soldiers blogging from the war zone in Iraq. (For those of you with realy long memories for details of online media criticism ephemera, Mark teamed with Chervokas and me to create the MediaGrok - a protoblog- at Battelle's Industry Standard back in the day). In any case, Mark convenes a virtual roundtable of GI bloggers, and it's well worth a read - as are the soldiers' blogs. The "miliblogs," as Glaser cleverly coins, are three:
Glaser also includes two Iraqi bloggers in the exchange, and it's terrific. I'll be following these blogs. Particularly telling to me was this comment by American Soldier:
I agree that having the elections in "safe" areas is a joke. I am sure the media will say that the Iraqi interim government will decide on those elections but this will be heavily influenced by U.S. intelligence. I think the elections in Iraq are not valid. I will even go as far and say that the elections should be considered invalid. If the entire country can't vote then it will not be a 100% supported government. Will we blame the Iraqi government if Iraq erupts into a civil war because half the country didn't get a chance to vote? It's ugly and very very politically motivated!
