February 2006

Blogs can be useful. Instead of bitching about other bloggers, or performing self proclaimed honourable censorship, or talking about mundane stuff with pictures of ownself face covered in a thick layer of clay, someone actually went to Iraqi and ‘shared the trenches’ with the soldiers there for a whole year and blogs about it.

Quoted from the article in Wired :

The 41-year-old former Green Beret and author was embedded as a freelance journalist with troops last year and used an internet blog to report on car bombs, firefights and fallen soldiers. He also wrote about acts of compassion and heroism, small triumphs in the country’s crawl toward democracy and the gritty inner workings of the military.

His blog is one example showing that blogs can be useful.