If you've been hanging around The Squiggler for any length of time, then you know that Black Five is one of our favorites.
Mike Specter wrote a story for the WSJ on milblogs. His focus is the most excellent and hilarious JP of Milblogging.com. Several others interviewed are yours truly and Mike Yon. And of course out of the hundreds and hundreds of milbloggers, the MSM has to interview the three or four anti-Bush ones. *sigh*
And a Hat Tip to our very favorite BMEWS for the actual article and an order:
Today’s reading assignment is below. Read it all or get down and give me twenty, maggot!
Cry Bias, and Let Slip the Blogs of War
By MIKE SPECTOR
(WALL STREET JOURNAL) - July 26, 2006J.P. Borda (pictured at right) started a Web log during his 2004 National Guard deployment in Afghanistan to keep in touch with his family. But when he got home, he decided it was the mainstream media that was out of touch with the war. “You hear so much about what’s going wrong,” he says. “It gets hard to hear after a while when there’s so much good going on.”
Mr. Borda, a specialist, read other soldiers’ blogs and found he wasn’t alone. Hundreds of other troops and veterans were blogging world-wide, and many focused on a common enemy: journalists.
The 31-year-old software analyst, who now lives in Dallas, wanted to make it easier for people to read soldiers’ accounts. So he started a Web site, Milblogging.com1, to organize as many blogs as possible by country, military branch and subject matter. Today, the site links to more than 1,400 military blogs world-wide and was recently purchased for an undisclosed amount by Military.com, a Web site catering to soldiers that is owned by Monster Worldwide Inc.
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