Band of Bloggers
== Band of Bloggers <br />War Through A Soldiers Eyes ==
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An emergent band of military [[bloggers]] use the internet, DV (Digital Video) cameras, and cell phones to post their stories of the battlefield and miscellaneous days or events that they want to share. <br />Band of Bloggers, which is part of a larger User Generated Content initiative, is a website that contains this soldier spawned content.<br />[[The History Channel]] has televised this program.
== Content and information on the website ==
=== Video blogs ===
Videos filmed from DV cameras are on the website including combat videos, soldier to soldier videos, military footage, music videos, and blogger videos.
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*Combat videos show footage of uncensored firefights containing skirmishes.
*Soldier to soldier videos are short InterViews with military personal such as [[sergeants]]. They explain general things involving what the soldiers are patrolling and guarding at the moment, methods of extracting information for the Iraqi, and also their experiences in Iraq.
*Music Videos play music while it displays a slide show of photos taken of soldiers in Iraq.
*Blogger videos are AbOUT soldiers filming different things like following patrols or what the soldiers do for fun.<br />
=== Text blogs ===
Text blogs are articles written by a soldier. They include the experiences and thoughts of the soldier, very similar to a diary.<br />
=== Discussions ===
You are allowed to look through and read everything but you must create an account with a username and password (it is all free) enabling you to become a member to participate in these discussions. They are community [[internet forums]] with topics a person posts and shares about war and combat related matter.<br />
== External links ==
*[http://www.history.com/ The History Channel Official Site]
*[http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=56289&display_order=1&mini_id=55609 The History Channel>Band of Bloggers]
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