Nilbloggers vs Milbloggers

Check out the John Hockenberry piece on milbloggers over at Wired, along with Jon Stewart's interview with Hockenberry at his Daily Show site. Fascinating stuff. Blogs, emails, just about any type of digital media (photos, anyone?) flowing out of the Iraqisphere are causing big headaches in Pentagon craniums. As you'd expect, these bloggers aren't writing primarily about, say, a nice little bike ride they went on yesterday. It's probably just a matter of time before a "cone of silence" gets erected around the whole thing, but come on, there's no way to staunch all that data flow.

Milblogger, by the way, is a cool moniker. So I hereby coin my own term for most of the writers around here (Mike says, as he looks squarely in the mirror): Nilbloggers.

Speaking of Iraq, at least we've turned the corner. I mean, look at our accomplishments: we've caught Saddam, evil mastermind behind 9/11; we now know where the WMD are; and democracy is spreading like wildfire in the Middle East. What? Oh.