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- For a complete list of rules and up-to-the-minute information on the Milbloggies, refer to the Milbloggies page here.

- you no longer need to be a registered member or signed in to view the Standings.  As a reminder, the Top 5 in each category will move into the voting phase on February 22.

- the email server is still experiencing intermittment problems. And because of the backlog it’s possible some emails will not be delivered. If you have signed up for an account or requested your password, please send an email to Milblogging@gmail.com and I will activate your account and/or send your password.  In the meantime, I will be manually activating all new accounts throughout the day so you are able to sign in.

- don't forget, if you nominate a blog, feel free to let other visitors know about your support for that particular blog. To leave your comments, scroll down to the Actions section of the Milblogging Listing, then click Add/View User Reviews.

Thanks again for everyone’s patience.  I wish I was so awesome, that I could just  fold my arms, give that blink-and-a-nod--and all these website problems would be gone. 

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The website is reportedly having problems. The server had a meltdown which is causing problems with email and other features.  If you have tried to register an account or recover your password and didn’t receive an email, please let me know by sending an email to Milblogging@gmail.com.

Things are going to be fine.  It might take a few days to sort things out, but rest assured, hundreds of highly trained monkeys are currently working on the problem.

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The Milbloggies Award recognizes military bloggers for their contribution to blogging, news and information, and to the military over the past year.

Overview

1. A military blog can be nominated ONLY once by the same registered user.  However, a user can nominate as many military blogs as they wish.  All nominations must be submitted online through Milblogging.com by 8:00 pm EST on February 21, 2007.

2.  The top five nominees in each branch and country category will be announced on February 22nd and those nominees will move into the Voting Phase beginning February 22, 2007.  The Voting Phase will close on February February 26, 2007.  Instructions on voting will appear on the website on February 22, 2007. 

3. Nominees may be military blogs the branch categories and countries in the Milblogging.com database.  Learn more about the categories here.


4. To nominate a military blog, you must be signed in or a registered user (just like last year).  Registration is quick and free and you will not receive any SPAM.  This helps maintain the integrity of voting.  To place you nomination, simply click on the listing in the Milblogging.com database, and click the Nominate button at the top of the blog profile.  You can reivew the milblogs you nominated at any time, by signing in and clicking Manage Favorites.  Click the link that says View Milblogs Nominated by You.

5.  Winners will be presented awards at the 2007 Milblog Conference on May 5, 2007.  Winners are not required to attend the conference in order to receive their awards.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Feel free to leave your comments below or send an email to milblogging@gmail.com

You can also discuss and chat about this year's Milbloggies with other members in the Discussion Boards.

To keep updated on rules, standings, and more, go to the Milbloggies Home Page.

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I’ve created a widget that you can add to your blog. It’ll keep you updated on what’s going on in the military blog world.  You know? Milblogs in the news, new milblogs, and other cool stuff in the milblogosphere.  So go ahead and grab it by clicking Get Widget, then add it to your blog.  You can see a "live" example of the widget on the right sidebar (scroll down).

It's hot.

Pretty soon, your readers will be saying there’s something different about your blog...They're not quite sure what it is. And they can’t put their finger on it, but it’s fantastic.  At which point you’ll need a box of tissues to wipe away the tears of joy.

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(USA Today) Political junkies know there's been a huge buzz in the blogosphere over two bloggers hired by John Edwards' presidential campaign. Michelle Malkin and others on the right led the charge after Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan were brought on to the campaign, saying that their past blogging showed they are anti-Christian.

Last night, Marcotte resigned from her post as an Edwards blogger. She blamed:

"Bill Donohue and his calvacade (sic) of right wing shills (who) don't respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics (I'm anti-theocracy, for those who were keeping track).

Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, had helped lead the charge.

Memeorandum has collected a huge number of links to blogs where this is all being discussed. Those who wanted to see the bloggers go are cheering:

• "Milblog" BLACKFIVE says "ding dong the witch is dead."

Read the entire story here.

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(2007 Milblog Conference) The Venue for the 2007 MilBlog Conference will be The Westin Arlington Gateway. Our cocktail reception Friday, May 4 (8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.) will take place at the hotel, as will the conference on Saturday, May 5 (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.).

The Westin Arlington Gateway is only a couple of blocks from the Ballston Metro Station and only a few miles from Washington DC. If you're flying into Reagan National Airport, you can easily hop on the Metro and take it directly to the hotel.

We have reserved a block of 50 rooms -- 25 singles and 25 doubles -- at a room rate of $139 per night (plus hotel taxes). The rooms are first-come/first-served. Once the 50 rooms have been filled, attendees will still be able to book rooms at the $139 rate on a space available basis.

Click here to make your reservations. If you receive a "sold out" error message when trying to make reservations, please call the hotel directly (703.537.4253) and speak with Ms. Allyson Themel. Our room rate will be good until April 10.

Please note that the start time for the conference on Saturday has now shifted from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

Stay updated here.

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If you’re gonna milblog, there’s a great new service called Freedom Blog Network. I wish I could take credit for coming up with the idea, but Anthony Cavella came up with it first.  I guess when you spend all your free time rescuing orphan squirrels, it’s hard to do much else.   Speaking of which, sorry for the time off last week, but the little tiny squirrels thank you for your patience.  All 8 pounds 6 ounces of them…in their little tiny diapers, with their tiny, little, fat, balled-up fists pawing at the air…

Anyway, there are a bunch of websites that offer blogging services, but the Freedom Blog Network is the only one dedicated to milbloggers. 

More from the Freedom Blog Network:

Let me first start by introducing myself, my name is Anthony Cavella. I am a fellow MIL-Blogger and have been blogging at A Soldier’s Mind for the past year. Since I began blogging I quickly realized there isn’t much support for MIL-Bloggers. The MIL-Blog support that is available is usually spread all over the internet on tiny websites. It is for this reason I have started the Freedom Blog Network.

Read more here.  If you need a milblog, sign up here.

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(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) Matthew Currier Burden has a Web site he says gets 15,000 hits a day.

He looks forward to the day he can shut it down.

"I'd love nothing more than to not have to do it anymore,'' said Burden. For that would mean, the Chicago area man said, that "no more of my friends will be dying.''

The site -- www.blackfive.net -- works as a kind of electronic clubhouse for soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Started by Burden, an Army veteran who served in the first Gulf War, the site includes words and pictures posted by servicemen and -women, ranging from descriptions of battle to laments of boredom and homesickness.

Burden calls it "an oral history of the people involved."

Read the entire story here.

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(Defense Tech) “The digital rights crusaders over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation are suing the Department of Defense, "demanding expedited information on how the Army monitors soldiers' blogs," according to an EFF statement.

EFF filed its suit after the Department of Defense and Army failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the blog monitoring program...

According to news reports [ahem, ahem], an Army unit called the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell (AWRAC) reviews hundreds of thousands of websites every month, notifying webmasters and bloggers when it sees information it finds inappropriate. Some bloggers have told reporters that they have cut back on their posts or shut down their sites altogether because of the activities of the AWRAC.

Well, not exactly. Most of the bloggers I've talked to dialed back their sites because of a more broad suspicion about blogging within the military community -- and unclear regulations about what can and can not be written online.”

Boing Boing is also covering the story.

Read the entire story here.

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(Forsyth County News) Watada is just the latest in a line of losers abandoning their men, their mission and the rule of law. The left calls this "dissent." The rest of us call it what it is: Desertion.

Many military observers say they smelled a rat when they first heard of Watada's story. Watada graduated from Hawai'i Pacific University in 2003, joined the Army shortly after, went to Officer Candidate School and incurred a three-year obligation. Wrote Navy Officer Robert Webster:

"This guy graduated from college and then joined the Army, going to Officer Candidate school, after we had already started the Iraq campaign just to claim it was an 'illegal' war when his unit is called to go. Smells funny to me. In my mind, either the Army gave a commission to an idiot not aware of current events or he planned this all along."

Soldiers making calculated political statements against their own troops? Wouldn't be the first time -- cough, cough, John Kerry. Idiot or schemer, Watada deserves a stiff, strong penalty for his lawlessness. An excellent proposal put forth at the military blog Op-For (op-for.com):

"Relieve him of operational duties and send him to work at Walter Reed, to handle the in- and out-processing of wounded veterans."

Yes, where the real heroes are.

Read the entire story here.

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This week I won’t be able to write much, but I’ll be back in a few days.  I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what’s going on with the Milbloggies because I’ve been talking them up for weeks.  Ok, so months. Well, I’m pleased to announce the work is done and the voting system will be uploaded in about a week.  So now, you all can smile. 

Seriously, some times I wish I looked like a little cuddly koala bear, so if I did something bad, like say, promised something to my readers months ago...I would just post a picture of myself and you would look at it and say, “What did he promise? Awwwwww, who cares? He’s sooooooo adorable!!”  But unfortunately, I’m cursed with this chiseled body and rugged good looks.

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The Uncouth Online Magazine, Chris Erickson, Qatar, Originally for entertainment, now for updates. Upd..., 01 Feb 2007

All Ahead Full - A Submarine Wife's Adventures, Wendy, United States, Navy Submarine Wife, entrepreneur, and soccer mom...., 01 Feb 2007

Retired Reservist, Stan Smith, United States, Opinions and views from a retired Reservist, 31 Jan 2007

Asymmetric Military, Nelson Guirado, United States, A lifelong civilian joins the Army, goes to Iraq a..., 26 Jan 2007

Task Force Phoenix 5, Todd Larkin, Afghanistan, This site will focus on the good things we as sold..., 26 Jan 2007

Sgtdub, Sgt Dub, Afghanistan, This is my second trip to Afghanistan, I'm a polic..., 26 Jan 2007

Bombshells: War Stories, Jesse Loren, United States, Are you out there on the homefront? You are invite..., 25 Jan 2007

Smittie's Ramblings, Smittie, United States, Observations, commentary, and ramblings from some ..., 25 Jan 2007

PeteRepublic.org, Pete Fanning, United States, US Navy Veteran Blogging on Conservative and Milit..., 25 Jan 2007

Differences in Recording Medical Data, Jorge Guzman, United States, MC4 Systems Administrator Jorge Guzman describes h..., 25 Jan 2007

The Beats of My Heart, Sgt. L's Wife, United States, I'm the mom of a toddler and the wife of a "weeken..., 24 Jan 2007

Alpha Mike Foxtrot, LK, Canada, Current military news and commentary., 23 Jan 2007

My Stupid Thoughts, Charlie B., United States, Thoughts of my life my military career. Most are ..., 20 Jan 2007

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(Strategy Page) A report on NBC Nightly News has touched off a bit of controversy in the blogosphere. In the initial NBC report, several troops expressed their frustration about opponents of the efforts in Iraq who claim to support the troops, but don't support the mission. One media response to this came from William Arkin, who decried the troops' comments, hoped they had been counseled, raised the specter of a military coup, and then referred to them as mercenaries. The response to the Arkin comments in the milblogging community has been fierce, with big blogs like OPFOR, Blackfive, and others returning fire.

Read the entire story here.

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(The Daily News) Marcus Penn knew that the baby kicking inside his wife was a girl.

So when he got the news that there were about 40 little ballerinas in a Camp Lejeune dance class who needed help with recital costumes, the blogger got busy.

Penn, a corporal in the Marine Corps, and Army Sgt. C.J. Grisham, write a popular military Web log called "A Soldier's Perspective."

After hearing about dance instructor Lauren Hill's quest for help buying the costumes (which can cost as much as $100 each), the bloggers put out the word.

Read the entire story here.

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I just wanted let you know that I’ll be deploying again.  I’ve got a lot going on so I might not be as active on this website.  Now, I know what most of you are thinking: “Oh dear god, will you NOT be attending the 2007 Milblog Conference?”  Well coincidentally, I probably won’t be attending this year’s conference. So you’ll have to make do with CJ drawing silly pictures of my face on napkins or putting stickers that say “Hi, my name is JP” onto random objects like plants and chairs throughout the Conference Center.       

Anyway, if anyone would like to volunteer and help write some content for Milblogging.com when I'm unavailable, feel free to contact me at Milblogging@gmail.com.  And yes of course, I realize my posts are on an entirely different level...But although it sounds difficult in theory to write like me, you’d be pleasantly surprised. You really only need to be brilliant or handsome. Or both, like me.   High-five!

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(PRWeb) Songwriter Luigi Cappel has released a new song called 'Another Stretch in Iraq' this month and has already heard from a number of soldiers that they relate strongly to it. The song is about a soldier who signs up for another stretch in Iraq after coming home to find his girlfriend has left him for another man.

Auckland, New Zealand (PRWEB) January 31, 2007 -- Cappel said that he did a lot of research for the song over a period of 3 months as he wanted the song to be authentic and respectful. From his home in Auckland, New Zealand, he said, "I communicated with a military personnel serving or about to serve in Iraq and also read several recent books, loads of articles and milblogs ( personal military blogs). A major concern for soldiers serving overseas for long stretches is keeping relationships intact and I understand Dear John letters are just as common today as they have ever been. Coincidentally the day I finished the song there was a story at www.milblogging.com about a 19 year old woman who went back to Iraq for another stretch after her relationship broke up, exactly the story the song is telling"

Read the entire story here.

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(RealClearPolitics)The very smart military blog Ace of Spades HQ speculated yesterday that Tony Snow might have been launching a trial balloon for an Iraq exit strategy rhetoric when he quoted President Bush's statement that, taking the long view, we won the war in Vietnam because, 30 years on, it is trending capitalist and has become a pro-American Pacific Tiger.

Read the entire story here.

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(DoD Daily News) I had an interview with Captain Doug Traversa with the help of CENTCOM. If you are interested, you may read it here.

Capt. Traversa is an Air Force pilot in the USAF. His blog is Afghanistan Without a Clue. He is a wonderful man with a wonderful wife and family. Please read about him and Afghanistan.

My site is DoD Daily News. I understand I chose the word 'Daily', but sometimes it gets too hectic around here! Sometimes there are 1-8 entries, sometimes there is none. :( But hey, look at the bright side! At least your eyes can have a rest! Have a nice day.

Story submitted by Milblogging user Rosemary.

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(94.5 – The Buzz) Army Wives Forums is an "online forum for U.S. Army wives, girlfriends, and fiances stationed all over the world. Site features tips on deployments, and articles on military life."

Milblogging bills itself as "the world's largest index of military blogs." The site is "a daily snapshot of the top milblogs, milblogs by country, and other cool stuff in the military blogosphere."

Read the entire story here.

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(Andi’s World) I've received a lot of email this week regarding the 2007 MilBlog Conference. Some of you have already made your flight and hotel reservations. I wanted to let you know that we're very close to securing a venue and we're hoping to offer a block of rooms at the site of this year's conference. You may want to hold off on booking your hotel until I have more information, which will be very soon.

Tentative agenda:

Friday, May 4, 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Cocktail Reception.  Milbloggies will be presented.

Saturday, May 5    9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  -  Conference.

Stay up to date by visiting Andi’s World and the official 2007 Milblog Conference Blog.

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