VITAMEDIAS
'Webloggers,' Signing On as War Correspondents: For all the saturation coverage of the invasion of Iraq, this has become the first true Internet war, with journalists, analysts, soldiers, a British lawmaker, an Iraqi exile and a Baghdad resident using the medium's lightning speed to cut through the fog of war. The result is idiosyncratic, passionate and often profane, with the sort of intimacy and attitude that are all but impossible in newspapers and on television.
Web Logs Tell War Stories, Unfiltered and in Real Time: Soldiers and citizens in the war zone are publishing in real time on their own Web sites. Families are posting on the Web the e-mails sent home by relatives in the service. And free-lance reporters - not subject to restrictions by the Pentagon or large media outlets - are writing online for a new world-wide audience.
Baghdad calling: There are dozens of journalists and TV cameras in the Iraqi capital. But the most vivid account of the build-up to war and the start of the bombing has appeared on the internet - on the weblog of an unknown Iraqi writing under the name Salam Pax. But who is he?
Iraqi Uses Web to Chronicle a City Under the Bombs
A Live Report From Baghdad
On the Ground, and Above It, in Baghdad: If you want to know what it felt like to be living in Baghdad in the days before and after the start of the bombing, you'd do well to turn off the constant prattle of TV talking heads and read [Jon Lee Anderson, the New Yorker's veteran war correspondent] wonderfully nuanced and humane "Letter From Iraq."
Pausing the warblog, for now: I've been asked to suspend my war blogging for awhile.
But I don't want let you down - I'm chronicling the events of my war experiences, the same as I always have, and hope to come to agreement with CNN in the near future to make them available to you in some shape or form, perhaps on this site.
[act.:] Blogging: the new journalism?: Perhaps one attraction of blogging lies in its unmediated and dynamic quality. Without an agenda, editorial stance or pedantic sub-editor standing between the writer and reader, blogging can provide reportage in a raw and exciting form.