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• 09 Jan 09
  

  Brian Edwards

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• 25 Apr 08
  

  Blergie Blerguson

  A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

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  • A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." 
• 02 Apr 08
  

  pearl t

  • A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." 

    
    
    

    Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers
    blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary
    troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad. 

    
    
    

    This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning. 

• 01 Apr 08
  

  Brad Friedman

  • A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers." 

    
    
    

    Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers
    blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary
    troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad. 

    
    
    

    This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning. 

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  Reports of a 2006 report written by Dorothy Denning for the Joint Special Operations University. The report poses the idea of recruiting or hiring bloggers to help spread the U.S. message, as well as the potential for using enemy blogs as intelligence or information operations resources.

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  • A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."
  • This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning.
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  tony curzon price

  Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'

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  Internet Freedom

  A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

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  Eli F

  This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll.

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