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Hating Sam Stein

By | 02.11.09 | 9:51 am

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 More…

The Navy in the Blue-Water Blogosphere

By | 01.28.09 | 2:54 pm

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 More…

A Really, Really Great Pentagon New-Media Idea

By | 11.12.08 | 1:40 pm

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 More…