Posts Tagged with ‘military’

Pentagon Blocked Access to Entertainment Sites

Svetlana Gladkova,

It looks like Pentagon further restricts the way military personnel uses the world wide web. Military personnel and civilian employees will not be able to access YouTube, MySpace, Pandora, Photobucket, hi5, metacafe and several other “recreational Internet sites” (I like the term, by the way) when they are using the Department of Defense network. The full list of websites along with the explanation of the reasons for such a decision can be found in the official Pentagon memo. The cited [...]

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Blogging the War

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira,

The War on Terror has been unique in its coverage simply because of the presence of user-created content for the first time in a U.S. military conflict. In addition to the traditional media coverage of a military conflict, we've also been privy to first-person accounts, from the first accounts of the U.S. invasion of Iraq from bloggers like Salaam Pax's Where Is Raed? to current military personnel blogs like the Fresno Bee's Life in Iraq from Army counselor Capt. Jeffrey [...]