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A colleague pointed me to a C4ISR Journal article about General Cartwright’s blog. On a classified network, the general habitually asks questions - and expects non-vetted answers. For the uninitiated, “vetting” is a process by which the people with the answers work with the people with the political savvy to craft an answer for the people with the responsibility to give. Gen Cartwright wants to skip all that vetting and get a quick answer.

From the article: “If you’re not contributing, I don’t want you as part of the organization,” he said. “And if you’re not contributing because you don’t think the information will be perfect, I still don’t need you.”

The more I hear from him, the bigger fan I am.

Video blogs. It was only a matter of time before weblogs moved beyond the simple text. First we had moblogs - blogs with pictures taken from mobile phones. Next came podcasting, which can be considered an audio blog.

Now, video blogs. The most popular is apparently Rocketboom. I found out through my Tivo. Ain’t life grand?

What’s next? We must have a better way to discover and promote all this information. So, what technorati and reddit are doing for text and Flickr is doing for images, someone will do for video.