Standby for link-fest.
Milblogging has been all over the mainstream media these last few days. Partly due to The Blog of War release, partly due to news that the Pentagon has dedicated a National Guard unit towards monitoring miblogs for OPSEC violations.
Noah Shachtman, Blackfive, and I did an interview with Wired magazine, already up on their main site. You can also hear the three of us on National Public Radio’s Day to Day segment on Monday (not sure when exactly, but I’ve been promised the mp3 version when it airs).
Additionally, the AP ran a story earlier today on the new Pentagon milblog monitoring team. As did the Stars & Stripes. Both have the usual suspects, JP from Milblogging.com and Matt from Blackfive.
And yes, there’s more. USA Today blogged the Pentagon story on Wednesday, with a completely inaccurate “Pentagon Moves Against Milbloggers” title, I might add. That’s not what’s happening.
Marc Danziger’s Examiner piece, focused exclusively on The Blog of War, was somewhat less contentious. Not to mention one of the better BOW reviews that I’ve read.
And finally, The Salt Lake Tribune wrote a nice Sunday piece on the excellent miblog Wordsmith at War.
There seems to be a perfect storm forming around the milblogging movement, with the bloggers, the media, and the Pentagon merging to affect some sort of major change on the community. The exact change is -as they say- in the tea leaves. Let’s hope it is a positive one.
