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PHOENIX - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday. Leonard Clark, 40, was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined $1,640, said Col. Bill Buckner, a spokesman for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq. Soldiers in Iraq are allowed to maintain blogs or Web sites but cannot post information about Army operations or movements. They also are barred from posting information about the death of a soldier whose family hasn't yet been notified. "The intent of the policy is not to violate soldiers' rights,...

PHOENIX - An Arizona National Guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his Internet Web log, an Army official said Monday. Leonard Clark, 40, was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined $1,640, said Col. Bill Buckner, a spokesman for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq.Soldiers in Iraq are allowed to maintain blogs or Web sites but cannot post information about Army operations or movements. They also are barred from posting information about the death of a soldier whose family hasn't yet been notified."The intent of the policy is not to violate soldiers' rights, but to...

Blogging is supposed to be democratizing the world of information, empowering the individual. And it is -- especially for male individuals. In this fast-growing community of people using the Internet to self- publish journals on a broad range of topics, half of all bloggers are women, according to surveys. Yet the most popular blogs are created overwhelmingly by men. The top 10 blogs, ranked according to the number of other Web sites linking to them by the Web site Technorati, are created by 23 men and only four women. At conferences for bloggers, female writers find themselves in a very...

When I wrote a column last week about college students wearing flip- flops at the White House, there was a surprisingly large reaction. Lots of people jumped into the debate about the "casualization'' of America, and some wanted to add other names for the beach shoes, like "zories'' and "go-aheads.'' But a couple of e-mails stopped me cold. They wanted to know why I had not mentioned that the women of the national championship-winning Northwestern University lacrosse team wore flip-flops to the White House to protest the president's waffling on Karl Rove. Another version said they were auctioning the sandals...

Senate Democrats and Judiciary Committee minority staffers are miffed that conservative bloggers appear to have more information about Bush Supreme Court nominee John Roberts than they do. "They've got material out there that we don't know about," complained Sen. Edward Kennedy, who's leading an effort to force the White House to turn over any documents it has on Roberts. Other Democrats said that they believe the White House is providing supportive bloggers with information that paints Roberts only in a positive light. Kennedy, speaking to reporters last Friday, said that he was unaware of the prolific GOP blogging on behalf...

I happen to believe that politics is circular. There comes a point when the extreme left and extreme right meet each other and more or less conglomerate into one big mess of extremism. In Internet community terms, consider the similarities in behavior between Democratic Underground and Free Republic. I think you'll find, if this is true, that there's a point where actually the ideologies are the furthest apart. When you have mainstream political debate pushing towards those points, not the farthest to the extreme mind you, that's when you have real divisiveness. You have the MoveOn.org/Daily Kos crowd on the...

A FEW MONTHS AGO, Markos Moulitsas, proprietor and founder of the left-wing blog Daily Kos, penned a brief but extremely insightful posting. Under the heading, "Evidence that we live in a different world," Moulitsas pointed to a recent Time magazine poll that showed 79 percent of the American public had never heard of (or didn't have an opinion of) Ann Coulter. Moulitsas wrote, "I'd venture to say that 100 percent of this site's readers know who Anthrax is." Indeed, there is little doubt that the habitués of the Daily Kos, like their hated cousins who read popular conservative blogs such...

In an effort to bring credibility to a media realm populated by "agenda-driven, rumor-mongering, unedited hacks who blur the line between fact and opinion," CBS News announced today it would launch a 'blog' called 'Public Eye'. "The word 'blog' -- short for weblog -- has traditionally meant an online journal of commentary on the news which uninformed readers often mistake for actual news," said Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "Public Eye will bring legitimacy to the medium the way United Nations involvement legitimizes U.S. foreign policy." 'Public Eye' will differ from the vast majority of news-oriented blogs, Mr. Heyward...

Blogs are everywhere - increasingly, the place where young people go to bare their souls, to vent, to gossip. And often they do so with unabashed fervor and little self-editing, posting their innermost thoughts for any number of Web surfers to see. There is a freedom in it, as 23-year-old Allison Martin attests: "Since the people who read my blog are friends or acquaintances of mine, my philosophy is to be totally honest - whether it's about how uncomfortable my pantyhose are or my opinions about First Amendment law," says Martin, who lives in suburban Chicago and has been blogging...

"...Cable goes wall-to-wall, broadcast networks mixed. Some stations still running regular programming. Local news mostly focused on story, but with major local angles that sometimes seem too provincial. Focus on the news that has actually occurred. Let's show we care. Some other stories being covered as well. Actually heard an Aruba update. Let's take a pass on that one for a few days, shall we? ...While the blogosphere jumps right in, talk radio is caught with its pants down. Many regular hosts are away this week and the substitutes in their place range from nightmarish, to completely unairworthy. ...Please leave...

Bloggers have called for a mass protest against today's bombings and have insisted that Londoners will not be intimidated by the string of attacks on their city. "The outrages in London are the work of enemies of humanity. There should be massive demonstrations throughout Britain this weekend to show our solidarity against them," said Paul Anderson on the libsoc blog. There were other calls for action against the bombers, who killed at least 33 and left 150 seriously injured. Bloggers had no doubt the attacks were the work of terrorists. Tim Worstall, the leading Brittish blogger said: "Tomorrow we’ll find...

..."Get me rewrite" will in effect be a menu option, a way for unhappy readers to go online and offer their own versions of articles they do not like. Their hope is to convert the paper, through its Web site, www.news-record.com, into a virtual town square, where citizens have a say in the news and where every reader is a reporter. This feature, part of a planned overhaul of The News & Record's Web site that is to begin next week, is a potent symbol of a transformation taking place across the country, where top-down, voice-of-God journalism is being...

SANTA FE - So it has come to this: The Federal Election Commission wants to slap new rules on the Internet. Sounds scary for the libertarians, free thinkers and online writers of the world. But the proposal - or at least parts of the 12-page lesson in bureaucrat-speak - has noble intentions. The commission, which enforces federal election law, is considering requiring online political ads to wear disclaimers stating who paid for them. Not a bad concept. Just like on television, on the radio and in newspapers, voters have a right to know who is saying whatever they are saying...

The Federal Election Commission says Web blogs just might be a threat to democracy and it's considering whether to police them. The issue, being discussed during FEC hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday, is whether some Web sites actually provide unregulated benefits to specific political campaigns. The famously free-spirited Web community is fighting back.....

[Liberal web site] plans to rocket into the “blogosphere” by creating a central Web log and arming thousands of its members with free, template-based journals to help fight the rhetoric, lies and hatred spewed by conservatives. [Liberal web site], one of the Internet's largest liberal discussion forums, plans to rocket through the “blogosphere” with its new Web log or "blog." In less than a year, [Liberal web site] received well over 24 million hits and 4.5 million page views. The site has over 5,000 registered members, and plans to quadruple those numbers in the upcoming months with its new blogging...

When Ashlee Fukushi's friends started blogging this school year, the 14-year-old Woodbury girl decided she wanted a Web diary, too, so she could keep up with the daily gossip. "I had thought about having a pen-and-paper journal but was too lazy to do it," Ashlee said. "I thought it would be fun to go to my friends' sites and comment on their day and stuff." But the whole idea of blogging makes her mother, Mindy Fukushi, a bit nervous. She found her daughter's site by accident one day on her computer and began reading some of Ashlee's posts — mostly...

Best Political Blogs: DC Journalists Pick Their Favorites At the height of the 2004 presidential campaign, ABC’s “The Note” was the hot political Web site for the chattering class. The New Yorker anointed it as a “must read.” But without the campaign’s constant political fodder, “The Note” has devolved into a daily caricature of itself. Click on it today and it opens with a series of questions and navel-gazing comments, followed by a list of links and schedules. “It’s completely incomprehensible to anyone unless they work in politics,” says Garrett Graff, who covers media for FishbowlDC, part of Mediabistro. “For...

I'm interested in doing some semi-weekly blogging on events from a Christian perspective, but I would rather contribute to an existing collaborative blog than start one on my own. Anyone interested in bringing on another contributor? You're welcome to browse my posts to see how I write, and I can send samples by email as well. I feel compelled to write not so much about politics as about issues that arise in our everyday Christian walk... personal ethics, balancing work and family, family leadership, church participation, relating to our neighbors, and the like. Freepmail me if you have a blog...

<p>Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo.</p> <p>Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with.</p>

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A BLOG By Michelle Malkin   ·   June 13, 2005 04:01 PM This blog turned one last week! (BTW: Congrats to Karol at Alarming News, which turned the Big 3 today.) First, some blogiversary expressions of gratitude: Special thanks to the following people for their warm welcomes, words of advice/encouragement, and early links during mm.com's incipient days: John, Paul, and Scott at Power Line, John Hawkins at Right Wing News, Frank J. at IMAO, Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom, Bill Ardolino at INDC Journal, Kevin Aylward and the Wizbang crew, Ace of Spades, Spoons, Captain...