The Army created a war game, to make army service more attractive to kids. The speaker went to cover Afghanistan for this game. They created the weblog to "build relationships with their customers." The coverage was self-sensored, because of military security concerns.
At the beginning of this session, Halley told the story of how she started blogging, writing about her father's death.
Dave Winer started the the day's program, talking about weblogging and honesty.
An honest weblog from a battlefield will talk about people killing, and people dying.
I'm not a pacifist, but I am very troubled by the idea of war reporting where nobody kills and nobody dies.
To be honest, I haven't read the Afghanistan blog -- need to.
Posted by alevin at June 9, 2003 02:15 PM | TrackBack