Yet another Milblog 2012 post
My editor at Business Insider, Eloïse Lee, just posted an article about what she took away from the Milblog Conference this year from the perspective of a real journalist.
A common theme we encountered at the conference was that bloggers were surprised people were reading their content. We couldn’t reiterate enough how civilians are interested in the military and defense issues — and whatsmore, milbloggers offer an authentic, fresh perspective on the stories that are reported, misreported, or even unreported in the traditional media.
Eloïse also put together a slide show of some of the people she met there. You’ll see StrikeFO and Doc Bailey in the mix, well, and me.
I really enjoyed my weekend with Eloïse and her editor, Robert Johnson, I learned more from them than they learned from me, I’m sure. But mostly I was just glad to see some non-bloggers who were interested in what we do. Unlike the Old Media who were there and preached to us about how we were only interfering in them doing their jobs, and the service New Media people who were telling bloggers we had been replaced by Facebook and Twitter, Robert and Eloïse actually asked us questions and tried to understand the unseen intricacies of blogging.
I feel lucky that they approached me and found some value to their bosses in my mindless prattling. So, click over and read the rest of Eloïse’s article.
Well done, Eloise! Glad to see Maggie and Matthew were in the lineup too. Very cool!
Went through the whole story and you mean to tell me that the guy from the Military Times is still acting butt hurt about comments made in 2009? I would think somebody that covers the military would have a little thicker skin then that. Nowhere in the post did I see anything “vile”. Sure you questioned his “journalistic integrity” which is much better then calling him a lying douchebag. Where was he in the years immediately following 9/11 when the anti war crowd was on a roll and all I had to do was show up at a rally with some sort of pro military apparel on to be called everything from a baby killer to the worst mass murderer since Mao? For the record I have never been an abortion doctor so I can squelch those baby killer rumors right now.
Kudos to Business Insider for giving you a platform and for spending the resources to cover the conference, even as now a decade into the GWOT interest has fallen off precipitously.