Web Week

Blogs of war

The rapid evolution of weblogs, or blogs, underscores a thirst for information unfiltered by TV presenters and editors. Blogs such as Blogs of war and Sgt Stryker sometimes beat the media with war developments. Try LT Smash by a US Navy reservist. On the other side, a Baghdad citizen under the name of "Salam Pax" was filing daily reports but seems to have lost net access. CNN journalist Kevin Sites was doing a blog but has been told by his employers to stop. For a blog about blogs check out Cyber Journalist. Hacking censors Hack attacks and a surge in traffic, plus some technical glitches, have kept al-Jazeera's new English-language web site offline. You can still get news from a different point of view at Arabic News or Arab News.

Major TV networks are charging for video reports online but you can see raw video footage free at Reuters. There's also Iraq Body Count which aims to establish an independent public database of civilian deaths in Iraq ... "

Herald Feature: Iraq