Silenced Army Blogger Tells His Tale in New Book
Last May, after a series of blogs created by U.S. Army soldiers on deployment gained worldwide notoriety and popularity, the military cracked down, effectively putting an end to the practice. Now one of the most popular of those silenced bloggers, Colby Buzzell, has written a book and continues to speak out about his experiences there and his hopes for the future.
Buzzell, who operated a blog under the nom de guerre CBFTW (Colby Buzzell F*** The War), wrote a number of posts from the warfront immediately after engaging in combat, including one famous one titled "Men In Black," about an engagement with a number of insurgents dressed in black. That post earned him plenty of attention from the worldwide media, and his superiors, too, who initially confined him to base then later ordered him to stop blogging altogether -- just 10 weeks after he started.
Now he's written a book, called "My War," which contains many excerpts from his blog, and continues to write for Esquire magazine while also working on a new book. Military blogs are still largely banned, though. Sadly, this means that the only way we're going to keep up to date with what's going on over there is the same way we always have -- through the traditional media. [From: CNN]
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Jeffrey Thornton said 9:07AM on 11-18-2008
I don't understand why this is news . . . the book came out in 2005, for Chrissakes. It's a good read, incidentally.
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Tech said 1:31PM on 11-20-2008
Switched does sometimes put up stories with almost no relevance to technology or recent news.
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decem said 12:13PM on 11-18-2008
Good point Jeff!
Why is AOL reporting this when the book was published in 2005, won an award in 2007. It's Nov, 2008, how about it AOL, why this story at this time?
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