{"id":429,"date":"2004-04-28T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/28\/blogwars-the-next-reality-telly-show\/"},"modified":"2004-04-28T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T06:54:00","slug":"blogwars-the-next-reality-telly-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/28\/blogwars-the-next-reality-telly-show\/","title":{"rendered":"blogwars: the next reality telly show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=1471&amp;ncid=1471&amp;e=4&amp;u=\/ibd\/20040427\/bs_ibd_ibd\/2004427tech\"><font color=#000066>&#8230;some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what&#8217;s reported in some blogs is questionable. <\/p>\n<p>Still, a panel of folks who work in the U.S. intelligence field &#8211; some of them spies or former spies &#8211; discussed this month at a conference in Washington the idea of tracking blogs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News and intelligence is about listening with a critical ear, and blogs are just another conversation to listen to and evaluate. They also are closer to (some situations) and may serve as early alerts,&#8221; said Jock Gill, a former adviser on Internet media to President Clinton&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>thanks to <lj user=\"diepunyhumans\" \/> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what&#8217;s reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/28\/blogwars-the-next-reality-telly-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;blogwars: the next reality telly show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}