I highlight a Reuters piece on the emergence of war reporting via blogs, discussing how early digital platforms allowed individuals to share direct dispatches from conflict zones, bypassing traditional editorial filters and reshaping modern journalism.
I explored the Federation of American Scientists' index of global military operations and was surprised to learn that India was considered at war. It provides a sobering look at active conflicts around the world.
I share Feedster's monthly list of the top 500 most influential blogs, a curated resource for discovering new voices, trending topics, and popular RSS feeds across the evolving blogosphere.
I'm sharing The Guardian's 2002 list of favorite blogs, which features Satish’s Random Thoughts. It provides a unique snapshot of the early blogosphere and the personal sites that first caught the attention of mainstream media outlets.
I’ve shared a visual breakdown explaining the economic drivers behind the Iraq war. This resource uses images to illustrate complex relationships between military action, oil interests, and geopolitical spending during the early 2000s conflict.
I examine early automated blogs like iamlearn and rrobot, which use programs to generate readable yet meaningless content. I compare these experiments to useful automated platforms like Google News and discuss the future of blog automation.