(Weblog Awards) Every day we'll be updating the site with important information and observations about the progress of The 2008 Weblog Awards.
Today we're announcing that the permanent location of each of the 48 polls have been set. The finalist polls can be reached via the main poll navigation page here.
All comments will be disabled later today. Discussion is allowed on The Weblog Awards Forum.
As a reminder, the voting starts January 5th, and I’ll be posting all the information here on this blog. Happy New Year!
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But YouTube temporarily yanked the clips on Tuesday after viewers, apparently supporters of Hamas, flagged it as objectionable and asked that it be taken down. The video sharing Web site restored the video a few hours later, labeling it inappropriate for minors.
"The blogosphere and the new media are basically a war zone" in a battle for world opinion, military spokesman Maj. Avital Leibovich said Wednesday.
Leibovich said the new YouTube channel and a new blog the military is launching are an important part of
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From My Position... on the way!
The War on Big Tobacco
Blackfive
Michael Yon
This Ain't Hell
One Marine's View
Op For
Army of Dude
Milblogging,com
Knee Deep in the Hooah!
You know what you need to do starting January 5th, don't you? Get out and vote for the best military blog. Or, you can just vote for Milblogging.com. For the past few years I've been trying new things to bring more awareness to the Milblogging.com website and the index of over 2,000 military blogs, and I think winning a Weblog Award would do the job. I mean because, tagging public bathroom stalls and spray painting subway cars with “www.Milblogging.com Forever!” and “Visit Milblogging.com The World’s Largest Index of Military Blogs” was kind of illegal. Plus, now I have carpal tunnel syndrome.
To keep updated on this year's awards, visit the Weblog Awards website.
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Well, I’m off to play with the Unicorns dancing in my Home Office. So perty...
Wheeeeeeee!
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Just wanted to thank you and all of your readers for the incredible support that you guys have given us. We are literally swimming in care packages, which is great. We had been down to eating MREs for two meals a day due to chow resupply, however with the stuff everyone sent us we put together some ad-hoc meals to get away from MREs.
I know that everyone’s lives are so busy during the holidays and the thought that people took that valuable time to put something together for us showed us the true meaning of Christmas.
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I have to admit though, I've got some experience with setting and missing deadlines each year when I host and run the MILBloggies. But I’ve learned a lot over the years, and there's an easy way for the Weblog Awards to sort this date out once and for all. Allow me to share...Normally, before I even get started with the Planning Phase, I pick an arbitrary date by asking my kids their favorite numbers or reading a Fortune Cookie. Obviously, if I miss the first date I tack on another month. Or maybe three or four months. Sometimes up to six. Who knows? It really depends on how my cornflakes align in my cereal bowl that morning.
I like to set my targets low.
Really, it's a gift passed down from generations of slackers.
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The first post is on thenextweb.com which stated, first, that only 1 in 6 people find corporate blogs trustworthy. I'll ask some more questions about perceptions toward official military blogs some other time. For the time being, suffice it to say that this, at its roots, is a problem with credibility!
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I pause for no one.
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KUAM will broadcast a documentary made from the final diary entries and home movies of U.S. Army Spc. Jonathan Santos, 22, who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq on Oct. 15, 2004.
Santos most recently lived in Guam from 1992 to 1997, between his father's tours of duty in
Santos was deployed for only 38 days, but he recorded his thoughts, fears, frustrations and hopes into a worn green journal. The journal and his videotapes were returned to his family after
"So this is my birthday wish,"
He was killed 22 days later.
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A shot from a Tiger's 88mm gun could penetrate the front armor of a Cruiser 2,000 metres away, but a Cruiser's 57mm gun couldn't penetrate the front armor of a Tiger one metre away. (This fact has been revealed only recently. Was it known in 1944?).
Mayman, a member of the tank regiment, the 15th /19th King's Royal Hussars, kept secret wartime diaries recounting his Army life from
The diaries, already published as a book, Led Soldiers, are now being posted day by day as a blog on the Internet, to the delight of exservicemen - not all of them Brits - and military historians around the world.
These diaries provide a living account of Mayman's conscription, induction and training, leading up to his experiences under fire as his regiment fought its way through
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If you have a book idea and need representation, you can submit your own information to William Clark Associates using the online form.
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Is it me? But is there actually anything wrong with leaving harassing comments? Truthfully, part of running a blog is receiving harassing comments. I suppose if you don't like to hear opposing points of view, you could always move to
In my defense though, I usually only troll on Friday nights. Late. About
(Red, Green, and Blue) Many bloggers and webmasters want to check their stats so often it borders on behavior that could be classified as obsessive-compulsive. Fortunately, that is how the folks behind the scenes at the New Orleans-based activist group, Levees.org learned that the harassing comments being left at their blog were coming from computers registered to the
Levees.org is a watchdog activist group that is pushing for “a truly independent analysis of the failure of the federal flood protection system in metro
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Webmaster Update: Sorry, for those of you who want to leave me harassing comments, the Comments section is still broken. High five!
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Original Credit: Boston Herald
I regularly like to post stories about military bloggers in the news when they appear in my Google News Alerts. You know? Like when military bloggers get quoted by newspapers or news stations. So I’m pretty sure this piece of news is a first in the milblogosphere. Todd Kobus, who used to blog at lostiniraq.com, was arrested for tackling Junior Seau during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game. Not only did Todd leap over a seven foot wall, but he tackled one of the toughest NFL players in the league. If you ask me, Todd is pretty hardcore but not the sharpest tool in the box.
I mean, I’m almost 99% sure Todd would have had a better chance of wrestling a wild grizzly bear and winning than trying to fight Junior Seau. I'm still surprised we're not reading about the Football Stadium Cleaning staff sweeping up little Todd crumbs after attempting a stunt like this.
(The Sun Chronicle Online) "An
Todd Kobus, 31, of
The incident happened during the fourth quarter of Sunday's 47-7 win over the
Kobus was released on personal recognizance after being arraigned. Judge Warren Powers continued the case until Feb. 17 for a pre-trial hearing, according to the clerk magistrate's office.
Patriots spokesman Stacey James said the team has revoked the ticket Kobus used.
The newspaper profiled Kobus in a
At that time, Kobus, a National Guard intelligence specialist, was assigned to the 26th Brigade Combat team at
He previously spent most of a year in
Kobus became known locally for a military blog he wrote, lostiniraq.com. The site was packed with pictures, videos and irreverent humor, and was widely read among the military and their families..."
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Webmaster Update 3: I just found some video of Junior Seau discussing the incident. According to a reader who commented on Murdoc Online: "Rumour on the Patriots Forums has it that the Cardinals front office was talking about bringing Kobus in for a tryout, since he seemed to be the only one able to tackle a Patriots player that day..."
Webmaster Update 2: LostinIraq.com is now offline, but you can still access the site via Archive.org.
Webmaster Update 1: Unfortunately, the Milblogging.com Blog Comments are
currently not working. It just leaves a blank comment. We're researching the issue right now. Thanks to Kathi for catching this. Honestly, it's actually a glitch, and not an evil plot to block snarky comments from certain readers. Anyway, I'll start researching this issue just as soon as I finish my latest enhancement: automatically deleting all comments from users where the first name starts with the letter "k". Coming Soon![ 2 comments ] | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink | Discussion | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us
Example of an Xanga Blog
I’d like to thank everyone who has been recommending inactive/obsolete sites for removal from the Milblogging.com database. There are several hundred sites in the database that no longer exist or have been inactive for years. Anyway, the glory days of leaving inactive or obsolete sites in the database are gone. Now that we’ve reached over 2,000 blogs indexed in the Milblogging.com database, we’re gonna start cleaning house so that we can improve things around here. Particularly with the Xanga.com blogs, there’s nearly a hundred listed that have been deleted by their owners or that are no longer active.
I don’t want to put down Xanga.com, but if you open up a Xanga blog, it’s like watching the blue screen of death. I’m assuming most of the Xanga users made the move to Facebook or Blogger. I’m not saying the Xanga design is the worst I’ve seen online, but I’ve seen better websites designed by a box of rabbits. In fact, I threw up once after eating at a buffet and partying all night, and I'm pretty sure my vomit was better organized than an Xanga website.
I’m just saying.
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In its editorial, “How to pay for a 21st century military,” the Times recommended the Navy eliminate one carrier strike group; cancel its planned Zumwalt-class destroyers; cancel all its Virginia-class submarines; and cancel the Marine Corps’ V-22 Osprey program. Its other recommendations included eliminating the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor and ending the missile defense program, part of which includes Navy warships.
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Freddie Ward, pastor of Highland Park Assembly of God Church in Kilgore for almost 29 years, began writing daily in his first "YMCA Wartime Log" in October 1943, about three months after he bailed out of a plane shot down by the German Luftwaffe.
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The book had been written first as a diary by Metodi Hadzi Janev, a professional soldier in the ARM, but was later transformed into a book.
The film has strong support among the
The focus will be on the Macedonian contingent arriving on Iraqi soil in 2003, with the time frame being from June 2003 to December 2003. During this period, the Macedonian contingent was engaged in half a dozen ferocious battles with Iraqi insurgents who had either cornered or surrounded US troops.
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Back in 2006 I submitted Milblogging.com to Wikipedia and it was accepted. Since then, Milblogging.com receives regular traffic from Wikipedia. It took awhile for the site to be accepted, but after going back and forth with the folks at Wikipedia they finally agreed to list it. In fact, a lot of the "fat" I originally wrote, has been trimmed by their editors.
Now, if I remember correctly, if you plan to get listed on Wikipedia, you or your website have to be considered notable by Wikipedia’s standards. I have no idea what notable really means, nor do I care. But apparently Milblogging.com was notable enough to be accepted.
Getting coverage on sites like Wikipedia, BlogCatalog and others, certainly helps build steady traffic back here. So I suggest giving it a shot.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bottle-feed some baby kittens that were abandoned by their mother. There’s even a baby squirrel in the litter that I rescued from the jaws of a wild bear. Anyway, I’m not just a military blogger, I'm also a humanitarian.
I can almost taste that 2008 Weblog Award.
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