Today on Boing Boing tv, Xeni speaks with defense technology journalist Noah Shachtman about the role technology plays in the Iraq war. This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year.
Noah is a contributor to Wired, and the editor of Wired’s defense tech blog Danger Room. Don’t miss his recent Wired magazine feature, “How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social — Not Electronic.”
Don’t forget about JD Johannes(outsidethewire.com), Bill Ardolino (indcjournal.com), Bill Roggio (longwarjournal.org), and Jeff Emmanuel (jeff-emmanuel.com)
The point made about front-line soldier blogs drying up is an important one. Also, there is a very limited number of journalists who’re still embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq.
Two of the best of those are independent bloggers, Michael Yon, a retired special forces operative currently in Mosul, and Michael J. Totten. Check them out if you’re interested in first-hand reporting from the front-lines, as anyone with a strong opinion about the war should be.