new media

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at President Obama’s Monday press conference. Apparently, this was a pretty controversial move by the president. The Heritage Foundation sneered that “left-wing blogger Sam Stein” [...]

My love for the U.S. Naval Institute’s blog is second only to my love of Coke Zero. Over the last week, the blog has sparked a far-reaching debate about how the Navy reacts or doesn’t interact with the blogosphere after a vice admiral left some comments on a provocative post about public perceptions of the [...]

For the past couple years, the Pentagon’s communications staff has tried to familiarize itself with all Internet traditions, with some frustration. The new-media staff took major strides in outreach to the blogosphere by launching blogger conference calls between military leaders and Cheeto dust-encrusted bloggers like myself. They even launched DOD Live, their own blog.
But now [...]