A Blogged War

I stumbled on something tonight scanning some blogs. This is a quote from the Real Live Preacher blog. On his blog he states,

"Note�the emerging power of weblogs. A loosely organized network of people with the ability to post information�and�point readers to one another is very frightening to governments and news agencies.�It�is becoming ever more difficult for people in power to control information."

Maybe that's what the CNN commentator meant by our first "blog war."

He goes on to link to a man in Baghdad who is blogging, somehow, from the midst of this battle. RLP says,

"Blog insiders are flocking to read 'Where is Raed?'. Most of you already know about this amazing blog, but�I have a number of readers who are not immersed in the blog culture. 'Where is Raed?' is an ongoing journal kept by a man living in Baghdad. If you do a little research, you'll find that�a number of people have tracked him in sophisticated ways. He seems to be the real thing. Somehow he is still posting. There is new information online today. Whatever your thoughts are about this war, you will be moved by reading his point of view."

It's hard to stop reading.

Where is Raed?

Comments

[Deanne]

A few more war-related blogs... just FYI.

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
http://electroniciraq.net/news/iraqdiaries.shtml
http://www.lt-smash.us/ (this one is by a member of the US armed forces)
and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (look for the spot at the middle bottom of the page... it's a running list of updated reporter's diaries)