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Below the fold: Milblogging, Revamping, and a New Approach and some very good news if it's true.

The Army disarms itself
Michelle Malkin

Hugh Hewitt at Townhall blasts the Army's milblogger gag: "The milbloggers, in short, have done an extraordinary job of keeping the home front not only safe but also informed. I cannot imagine what the public would think of the war if this vital flow of information –solid, reliable, realistic information—had not been flowing back to the homefront for relay and rereading by the millions of Americans skeptical of the MSM’s ability or willingness to report on the war in anything approaching an objective fashion. Now, in a stunning admission of almost impossible to believe incompetence, the Army has announced henceforth the blogs will fall silent unless the entry has been preapproved. E-mails to civilians as well. In short, the Army is abruptly ending operations on a key portion of the battlefield –the fight for American public opinion."

The MilBlogs team is all over the story. Click here and keep scrolling, then keep checking back. I won't even attempt to link to all of the individual posts. I will try to keep an eye out for good related posts on other sites. "Developing," as they say.

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Milblogging, Revamping, and a New Approach
Posted By Laughing_Wolf

The explosion yesterday of what the Army is trying to do to communications and information has forced public discussion on what a number of bloggers and others have been talking about in private for a while. In point of fact, there are several people who have been working on a modest proposal for trying to make some substantive changes to the information front.

The white paper being drafted is still quite rough, but some quick thoughts to share this day are the following:

1. Military PAO acitivites are based on an (early) industrial-age model, with some slight modifications that come from experience in WWII.

2. Many in leadership and rear-echelon positions are not comfortable with Web 0.5, much less Web 2.0 -- a condition that applies to industry as well as government.

3. The combination of these two factors, along with several others, means that current information acitivites are neither effective, efficient, or acceptable.

4. Blogs and Milblogs have shown some of what can be accomplished using more modern technology and models, as well as an innovative mindset.

5. Blogs and Milblogs, for all they have accomplished, are not the answer ...

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Not gonna try to summarize this one folks; there's no way to pull an appropriate excert without violating Fair Use. Just go read Ed Morrissey's post here.