Electronic Voting: New or already the reality?

With the implementation of an online voting system being considered more seriously than ever before, the topic of electronic voting has been on my mind. Thus, I casually typed the words “voting online” into my search engine the other day to see what I would find. The following Wired news headline appeared as the number two [...]

New Media and the Leaked Iraq War Video

A few days ago the site Wikileaks released a classified video showing a US Apache helicopter gunning down a Reuters employee and his rescuers who were mistakenly targeted as insurgents. The video is extremely disturbing and has provoked a passionate reaction from the blogosphere.

The NY Times blog, At War, has posted an interesting roundup of the [...]

Military opens up social media policy

The New York Times reports the military is set to announce a brand new social media policy for American soldiers. Currently, all social networking sites (including YouTube) are blocked at military Internet stations.

“Those advocates have complained for years that local commanders, sometimes for vague or arbitrary reasons, have shut down personal blogs or restricted [...]

The First Official DoD iPhone App: "US Army News and Information"

These days even the US Army is jumping on the new media train (assuming, that is, you consider an iPhone application a type of new media – I certainly do). “US Army News & Information” provides iPhone-friendly content from Army.mil – everything from Army news from around the world, to photos and videos from the field, [...]