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MSNBC Net users offer glimpse of life in Iraq

"Chicago native Kathy Kelly filed her last dispatch from Baghdad on Wednesday for ElectronicIraq.net: "Here, amid a dearth of justice, human kindness is overflowing," she wrote. Then she told the site's Webmaster not to expect any more diary entries for several days. News of everyday life in Baghdad could be found on the Internet right up until the war began Wednesday.

KELLY IS ONE of a small contingent of observers and independent journalists who have chosen to take the risk and remain in Iraq when hostilities with the United States began."

Paul Boutin Q: Is the Baghdad Blogger for real?
"Speculation continues that Dear Raed, the weblog of a young man in Baghdad who posts under the name Salam Pax, is a hoax, perhaps even a disinformation campaign by the CIA or Mossad. A month after Computerworld published a story quoting a "terrorist" who turned out to be a one of their former writers pranking them, it would be foolish not to wonder.

Rather than guess, I emailed Salam and asked for proof of his location just before the first attack on Baghdad this morning."

Plastic Putting The 'War' Into War-Blogging
""Kevin Sites is a CNN corespondent who also runs a weblog that he updates from the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq. Like the recently famous Lt. Smash and Salam Pax, Sites' blog attempts to give the world a first person perspective from the war zone. (Although some have questioned the authenticity of the Baghdad blogger.) In addition, many professional news organizations have adopted the weblog format for their reporters' own first-hand dispatches.

"While the anonymous and easy-to-update nature of blogging has the potential to transform reportage, by freeing reporters from military censorship and spineless news mega-corporations, it also increases the likelyhood that blogs could be used to spread disinformation. Will blog users be able to sort fact from fiction?" And will the proliferation of 'warbloggers' who happen to be in the middle of a war-zone challenge the media profiles of other so-called 'warbloggers' who, fixed on their television sets and computer monitors, will make up the 82nd Couchborne Regiment in the current conflict?"

The Age Bullets over broadband
"There have been suggestions that during a conflict, the internet could now be used by "moblogging" journalists, who could now, in theory, upload photos and video from the front line direct to the net. Der Derian has doubts about this. "The mistake of the anti-war movement against the first Gulf War was to think that you could mobilise, as with Vietnam, after the war had started." But modern war happens too quickly."

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