Milblogging.com Newsletter: Today! Voting Starts for the 2008 Weblog Awards `Best Military Blog`

Monday, January 5th, 2008

Voting Begins Today for the 2008 Weblog Awards `Best Military Blog`(Milblogging.com) Voting starts today...More here.

Remembering Military Bloggers` Personal Stories: The Blog of War(Mudville Gazette) Reading (or re-reading) these stories (like me) might be reminded that everything done before "the surge" was not stupid, pointless, and wrong - and you might even come to share my complete disgust with those who now believe otherwise...More here.

2009 Pinup Calendar Raising Money for Hospitalized Vets(PinUpsforVets) A WWII style pinup calendar that raises money for the VA and military hospitals. The 2008 calendar project raised $15,000 that I was able to donate to rehabilitation efforts for the Wounded vets...More here.

News Story: Fallen Soldier`s Journal and Videotapes featured in a 60-minute doc umentation(Stars and Stripes) On Oct. 10, 2004, Army Spc. Jonathan Santos wrote in his diary that he planned to catch up on his reading while deployed to Iraq. "I will read `The Principles of Writing,` and then I will write the Great American novel and get hired as a professor at a prestigious university," he joked in the government-issued green log book he carried with him wherever he went...More here.

Documentary Film `Iraq and Beyond ` Seeking Reviews from Military BloggersMore here.

2008 Weblog Awards `Best Military Blog` FinalistsFrom My Position... on the way!The War on Big TobaccoBlackfiveMichael YonThis Ain`t HellOne Marine`s ViewOp ForArmy of DudeMilblogging,comKnee Deep in the Hooah!More here.

News Story: Israeli army tells foreign journos to blog off(RT) ...the Israeli army has created its own YouTube channel, with an entire department dedicated to blogging on the internet. At the end of the day who wins the war in Gaza will depend as much on what is said here - in cyberspace - as to what happens on the ground...More here.