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Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more

The 'Gay Girl in Damascus' blog, which was believed to have provided an authentic voice documenting the Syrian chapter of the Arab Spring, has "vanished".The author of the blog, Tom MacMaster, apparently decided to delete the contents of the blog......more

Earlier this month bloggers rounded on a column written in the Washington Post which suggested that Barack Obama could revive the United States' flagging economy by ramping up tensions with Iran.In an article in the Washington Post on 31 October,......more

So yesterday on Twitter I asked a question: when was the first official U.S. military blog started?Of course, long gone are the days when blogs were an unknown quantity, and these days blogs by U.S. soldiers will usually be signed......more

Need to run out in a moment or two so excuse the brevity of the post, but I've just been helpfully pointed in the direction of a press release on military blogging:'British forces in Afghanistan have launched their first-ever mass......more

I've been doing some research into the coverage of the Gaza conflict (back end of 2008, front end of 2009) on blogs. One of the English-language blogs that covered the war was the Muqata blog.The Muqata blog was started......more

Посмотреть на Яндекс.Фотках (Link to Tatiana Krasnova's album) Two female suicide bombers were believed to be responsible for the deaths of 38 commuters in Moscow at rush hour this morning. Russian officials say that 60 people were also injured in......more

Yesterday, I travelled up to Coventry for a conversation about embedded journalism in Afghanistan. It was hosted by Coventry University and the BBC's College of Journalism.I'm not sure I ever really understood the question that was supposed to frame......more

As of last Friday, all US servicemen have been able to update social networks like Twitter and Facebook from non-classified military network computers.The announcement by the Department of Defense is the first time a single policy has been used across......more

This looks like an interesting new blog which apparently kicks off today. US Tech Sergeants Ken Raimondi and Nathan Gallaghan are going to travel through five regional commands in Afghanistan blogging and vlogging along the way.Unsurprisingly, they think the story......more