Category Archives: MIL

“Bullets and Blogs” — new media and warfare [recommended reading]

By Daniel | Published: October 26, 2009
“Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter” (2.7mb PDF) is a very new agey text. The report emerged from the finding of a workshop tasked with the question: How must battlefield communication change to adapt to this twitterin’ bloggin media-rich battlespace? The report is fascinating, and focuses on the Iraq/Afghanistan-relevant idea that rapidly broadcasting [...]
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Army opens Mil internet access to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Vimeo

By Daniel | Published: June 10, 2009
Photo by tcmhitchhiker Today was the day that Army bases were ordered to stop blocking social media sites. No Youtube, yes Vimeo. No Myspace, yes Facebook. Seems arbitrary, but those are the sites I prefer anyway, so I would be happy were I in the mil. It’s interesting what remains banned… The list includes: (a) YouTube, http://www.youtube.com (b) 1.FM, [...]
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The Balad Burn Pit: All-purpose toxic materials disposal in Iraq [iraq, vet health]

By Daniel | Published: April 8, 2009
Update Feb 20, 2010: The anger is rising: read this LAtimes piece. Something made me mad today. So I’m posting about it. After reading an article on Wikileaks regarding the Balad Burn Pit, where toxic chemicals such as “…acetaldehyde, Acrolien, Arsenic, Benzene, Carbon Monoxide, Ethylbenzene, Formaldehyde, Hydrogen Cyanide, Hydrogen Fluoride, Phosgene, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfuric Acid, Toluene, Trichloroethane and [...]
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