Milblogging: Spreading Patriotism or Glorifying the War?

Web 2.0 has revolutionized the way America sees war- specifically, the War on Iraq.  By “seeing” I’m not referring to your opinion on the war itself, rather our ability to now visualize what it’s like for our soldiers overseas.  Soldier’s blogs (or milblogs), YouTube, Flickr- all of these have allowed us to view videos, pictures [...]

Global Blog Round-Up: Brazil

Today I visited Global Voices, a website that dedicates itself to the curation and promotion of global blogs.  The thing that’s so interesting about this site, is that you really get an idea of what is going on in other countries through the people that actually live there.  Issues and stories that are often ignored [...]