I’ve just imported almost everything I’ve ever blogged, which makes for a nice baseline and a good way to kick off this blog. I’ve been writing at my own project, The Complex Terrain Laboratory (CTlab), for the last two years, but I haven’t maintained a personal blog separate from it. I’ve experimented with a couple, but nothing that really stuck. Interesting how much that had to do with whether I wanted to invest time and effort in a particular URL/brand. Monkwire feels like a good fit, especially as a place to park all that archived material. There are some limitations on the content import. Many posts were images or videos, the contents of which didn’t migrate. I’ll delete those as I sift my way through. Some posts are updates or backgrounders for CTlab events, which don’t really stand alone as content for this site. They’ll go, too, when I come across them. Categories and tags are also an issue: everything prior to 10 September 2009 is uncategorized and untagged.
Month: September 2009
Starting Fresh, Importing Content
A bit thin on content right now, but over the next few days, I’ll be migrating copies of most of the posts I’ve published at CTlab over the last two years. Stand by.
Are Bloggers Bound by Professional Ethics?
Apparently not (always). Maybe the bigger question has to do with what we should expect of “bloggers” as a category of media actors – and where to draw the line between blogging and journalism.
Hodge: Of Kidnapping, Milblogs and Blackouts
Overheard at the DR Water Cooler
These are hysterical – at Danger Room, in response to Katie Drummond’s write-up on the NATO Second Life project (you know, the one that you heard about here first):
- From “Macaca”: make software that simulates staffers, then fire everybody
- From “Demophilus”: Are the NATO drones gonna get to gin up their own avatars? ‘Cause, I can see the French and Italian guys going for some with really huge wangs. And, some of the German chicks. Or, USAF generals.
Talk at the LSE on Militant Sanctuary Practices
I’ll be giving a talk at the London School of Economics’ Crisis States Research Centre, on 28 October, at 16:00. The talk has been billed as “Pakistan and International Security”, which isn’t entirely accurate, since I’ll be discussing both Pakistan and Afghanistan, and focusing on militant sanctuary practices.
MICHAEL A. INNES 