Blogs are logs or journals maintained on the Web. Many serve as personal diaries, but they can also serve as commentary on a specific subjects such as current events, politics, books, and movies.
Following is a very brief current selection of blogs related to the war in Iraq. Remember that blogs reflect the opinions and attitudes of the writer.
Blog ChecklistUseful blogs should have the majority of these features.
- About section with contact information
- Archives
- Links to news and/or information sources
- Blogroll
General Directories of Iraqi BlogsBlog Catalog Links to blogs from a variety of countries and sources.
Yahoo Iraq War Blogs and Diaries Lists blogs on Iraq by popularity.
Journalists and News Media BlogsBack to Iraq Hosted by freelance reporter Christopher Allbritton
Blogging Baghdad, the Untold Story (MSNBC) A look at the story behind the story of covering the news in Iraq. World Blog has the latest blogs on Baghdad.
Command Post Iraq Purpose of this site is to provide a permanent historical collection on the war in Iraq.
Inside Iraq a blog updated by Iraqi journalists working for McClatchy newspapers in Iraq.
Iraq Hack, a Reporter's Blog Hosted by Tom Popyk, a freelance journalist, based in Toronto.
Soldier's BlogsBoots on the Ground
Letters from Baghdad
MilBlogging.Com - Iraq provides a daily snapshot of top milblogs by country Milblogging.com currently has blogs in 38 countries.
MilBlogs, Black Five's Favorites
Sandbox Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's milblog created for troops to "report on themselves" in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Civilian BloggersBaghdad Burning
Hammorabi
Healing Iraq Contains daily news and comments on the situation in post-Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist.
In the Middle, Raed Jarrar's Blog
Iraq the Model
Messopotamian
Voices from Iraq, Bloggers from Iraq
Voices from Iraq, Letters from Iraq Latest entry September 2005.
BooksBurden, Matthew Currier. The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Simon and Schuster, 2006.
Salam Pax. Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi. Grove Press
2003.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. Feminist Press, 2005.
Riverbend. Baghdad Burning II: More Girl Blog from Iraq. Feminist Press, 2006.
Smith, Craig A. The World Wide Web of War. U.S. Army War College, 2006. (available online at: http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA449402)
Stanford, David. Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. McMeel Pub., 2007.
Trouern-Trend, Jonathan. Birding Babylon : a Soldier's Journal from Iraq. Sierra Club Books, 2006.
Wood, Trish. What was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It. Little, Brown, 2006.
Citing BlogsUsing Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources provides guidelines for citing Internet sources.
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