Israelis and Lebanese Are Still Talking — on the Net

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2006 Official diplomatic relations between the two countries may be at a nadir, but young citizens on both sides are finding common ground on Internet chat boards Says a blogger: "We have tons of things in common We come from two of the most liberal, educated countries in the Middle East" Also: Read the back story on that infamous picture of Israeli girls writing on rocket shells. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CIA Blogger Fired for Anti-Torture Post

Staff / Truthdig Jul 22, 2006 Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, was fired when she posted a blog entry to the agency's closed network stating her opposition to torture. The post started like this: "Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong." Such a sad confirmation of our government's dismal human rights policies that so obvious a statement qualifies as grounds for termination. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blogging the Middle East Conflict

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2006 Both Wired News and boingboingnet have featured excellent links to blogs from Lebanon and Israel Check out a collection of links to blogs from both sides of the border Mazen Kerbaj comicblogging from Lebanon Melly blogging from northern Israel Mana: Manamania blog from Beirut More links on the story pages (Wired, BB). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Department of Defense Funds $450K Blog Research Project

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2006 The Air Force Office of Scientific Research will fund a three-year research project shepherded by Versatile Information Systems Inc. that will seek out "relevant and credible" information pertaining to terrorist activity on blogs. (via boingboing.net) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Feminist Blogs Afire Over Oral Sex Debate

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2006 Salon wittily wades through a debate raging in the feminist blogosphere over whether the act of a woman performing oral sex on a man is inherently demeaning. It's reg req'd for Salon, but Pandagon sums up most of the argument on her free site. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blogs and the Left: An Emerging Symbiosis

Staff / Truthdig Jun 11, 2006 Veteran N.Y. Times political reporter Adam Nagourney, reporting from the blog conference in Las Vegas, writes that "the blogosphere has become for the left what talk radio has been for the right: a way of organizing and communicating to supporters." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Media Descends on YearlyKos

Staff / Truthdig Jun 10, 2006 The DailyKos-hosted annual blogger conference, taking place this weekend in Las Vegas, is attracting a gaggle of traditional-media reporters--not to mention politicians, fundraisers and political operatives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blog Trades Carbon Offsets for Links

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2006 A progressive-minded blog called DeepMarket.com is teaming up with CarbonFund.org to offset one ton of carbon emissions for every blog that links to it. (h/t: Tree Hugger) Hey, blogosphere: Link up! It doesn't cost you anything. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

For Interns, Blogging Brings Perils, Profits

Staff / Truthdig May 26, 2006 On the eve of the premiere of the underling-dishes-all movie "The Devil Wears Prada," the N Time surveys the landscape of interns whose work-related blogs have brought them both pay and pink slips . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Capital Full of Shih Tzu Reporters

Molly Ivins / Truthdig May 11, 2006 "The president's approval ratings are at 31%, and not a single Shih Tzu will yap at him." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Free the Internet: The Movie

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 If you're disturbed by the thought of Internet service providers deciding which websites you can have access to, watch this short, entertaining and disturbing movie that crystalizes the battle now being waged over this issue in Washington and the blogosphere. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Brazilian Call Girl Stirs Debate on National Values

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2006 First in a blog, then in a best-selling memoir, a 21-year-old prostitute from Sao Paulo, Brazil, has revealed a country "that is not always as uninhibited as the world often assumes." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )