| ] There's a new breed of combat personnel at the war front:] soldier "bloggers."
 ]
 ] Once the narrow domain of geeks and technology
 ] journalists, "Web logs" -- or diary accounts published
 ] online -- have gone mainstream, making it possible for
 ] even soldiers to transmit daily updates to Web sites
 ] about the rigours of battle.
 ]
 ] War-themed blogs, appearing on sites such as
 ] www.blogsofwar.com and www.sgtstryker.com, have become a
 ] popular alternative news source since fighting broke out
 ] in Iraq a week ago, sometimes beating newspapers and
 ] television with war developments.
 Soldier 'bloggers' report from war  |