Looking at You Looking at Me

Since the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq began, the nature and meaning of war photography have dramatically changed. With so many soldiers disseminating digital images,...

Department of Defense rules on wireless security

The new Department of Defense rules on wireless security should help clear the way for the spread of these increasingly popular communications technologies throughout the...

"The icons of this war..."

Pedro Meyer, for Zone Zero, has written an interesting editorial on the Iraqui abuse photos taken by soldier-amator photographers at Abu Ghraib. Excerpts: "I don't...

Pictures, more than ever, tell Iraq story

A wonderfully written article by Geoff Pevere for The Star on Michael Moore's amazing footage of Iraq provided by "anyone with a camera and a...

The Accidental Journalist

Eric Lin for the TheFeature.com has written an insightful article on how everyone today has become an instant journalist... whether they intend to be or...

Wartime Wireless Worries Pentagon

The rapid proliferation of digital cameras, phonecams and wireless gadgets among soldiers and military contractors is giving senior military officials concern, in the wake of...

Xeni Tech: Phonecams on the Front Lines

Technology expert Xeni Jardin reports about the impact that digital camera technology has had on the war in Iraq on NPR, via boing boing. "Today...

Did Rumsfeld ban Iraq camera phones?

The Register's take on whether or not Rumsfeld issued a ban on camera phones for soldiers in Iraq. "Some reporters have been fooled into picking...

Camera phones in Iraq; digicams and truth in wartime

Xeni Jardin for boing boing has an interesting update on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's order for a ban of cell phones equipped with cameras...

Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq: report

This is wild. The AFP is running a story on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, banning camera phones in army installations in Iraq. "Quoting...

Pictures and Blogs from US Soldiers in Irak

BlueHereNow has a special section that showcases some of the more interesting pictures taken by US soldiers in Iraq as well as links to official...

Creating a New Picture of War, Pixel by Pixel

A very interesting commentary by Robert Wright for the LA Times on how America may not have brought democracy to Iraq yet, but it has...

Visualizing War & Disaster

The Poynter Insitute's - a school for journalists - special report on how in Virginia, Iraq, and Poland, photojournalists and editors struggle with the power...

War images and digital technology

The acceleration of brutal images from Irak - fueled by technological advances in digital photography and video streaming - seems to be having a direct,...

Soldiers' cameras share snapshot of life in Iraq

There have been so many interesting articles in the last few days with regard to the role technology has played in Iraq, that I've opened...

U.S. must release all prison-abuse photos

The Statesman Journal takes a strong stand on the US releasing the remainder of the Iraqi prisoner abuse photos: "In an era when soldiers bring...

Napster generation goes to war

Another very interesting article, written by Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent for Reuters, comparing how the Napster generation has forced the music industry to rethink...

Toppling tyrants with IT power

Technology Editor Francis Chin for Today Online in an interesting essay (posted at length in Textually) on the IT revolution and referring to the Iraqi...