Proof the Army is confused about blogging
There’s an article in Wired’s Danger Room entitled “Actually, the Army Kind of Likes Your Blog” by Noah Shachtman that reports on the Army’s attempt to get a grasp of the milblogosphere’s opinion of them;
Every week, the defense contractor MPRI prepares for the brass a “Blogosphere and Social Media Report,” rounding up sites’ posts on military matters. It’s meant to be a single source for top officers to catch up on what’s being said online and in leading social media outlets. Items from about two dozen national security and political blogs are excerpted, and classified as “balanced,” “critical,” or “supportive.”
Well, the problem is that they’re looking at “This Ain’t Hell” way too much to be at all helpful to them. 18 times in the three week period that Danger Room evaluated – more than almost any other blog. That’s not healthy – we don’t know what we’re doing here.
To demonstrate how clueless they are, they included some of your comments in the report, too. See what I mean?
Category: Bloggers, Military issues
HuffPo and Salon are “balanced”? Holy shit, I really could use some of whatever drugs they’re on. That has got to be some primo bud.
Gee, I wonder if they saw my comments on what a bunch of PC jerks they are, that they allowed a “Major Hasan” to happen?
This, my friends, is what passes for “Information Operations” at the Pentagon.
I’m speechless!
I know why you’re mentioned so much…….you gotta a plant in the Pentagon……who is it fellas???
Dang, I need a job like that…
Good way to tell the brass that daddy bought them a commission (same as he bought your momma) but your whore of a momma didn’t give you a brain.
“HuffPo and Salon are “balanced”? Holy shit, I really could use some of whatever drugs they’re on. That has got to be some primo bud.”
I said damn near the exact same thing when I read the article. Who compiles this crap? Politcal appointies?
Wait, you mean people are getting paid for reading milblogs??? Okay I want my cut and maybe I can get hired on as on outside consultant.
Amazing that somebody has a job doing what to a lot of us could put our employment in jeopardy if we are caught doing it, not to mention that stupid Websense blocking software that so many companies use which makes reading milblogs at work all but impossible.
Hey at least they aren’t surfing pr0n sites like those folks at the SEC.
(I said all but impossible, because where there is a will there is a way) 🙂
I’m not angry that they are doing this. I am angry that they are probably paying a half dozen MPRI contractors six-figure salaries to do something that I do in my spare time for free.
Congrats! HuffPo and Salon are balanced??
Oookkk…
I can’t really post the comments I first had when I read this. I can, I guess, but I’m not going to.
Sigh… An Army of One: Brain Cell.
“I am angry that they are probably paying a half dozen MPRI contractors six-figure salaries”
Guess how many of those MPRI former military PAO types are raping the American tax payer, ahem, assisting Afghanistan with setting up a public affairs program in Kabul??
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