Immediate and intimate, revealing and raw: For firsthand, unflinching accounts of life in a war zone, look no further than milblogs.If you are interested in military blogging this piece is for you.
Short for military blogs, milblogs are personal online journals being kept by hundreds, if not thousands of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Milblogs have proliferated in a massive way," said Christopher Michel, president of military.com, the nation's largest military membership organization at 4 million strong.
"These (bloggers) really are the most embedded journalists."
In this tech-savvy generation's war, a grunt's kit bag often includes a camera phone, video games and a laptop computer. Free and easy-to-use Web page software and ubiquitous Internet access make creating a blog a cinch.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Blogs of War
The Sacramento Bee reports on milbogs:
