Blogging About and From the War in Lebanon

I haven't talked to date about how bloggers have been dealing with the war in Lebanon. Obviously, it's been a hot topic, even though in the US it seems to be competing with such important topics as Mel Gibson's meltdown, the enigmatic baby-Cruise and the heat wave (which, fortunately, seems to have bent, if not completely broken).

Anyway, the Wall Street Journal did a piece last week (picked up by other papers) on how bloggers on both sides of the conflict are blogging, not just to communicate with their countrymen and observers, but folks on the "other side."

Here are some other blog search results for "Lebanon":
Sphere (they also have featured blogs on "Middle East") | Technorati | BlogPulse

Also, the folks over at AOL UK gave me a heads up -- Dominic Nutt, British journalist and Christian Aid's Emergencies Editor, is in Lebanon and is blogging his observations in an AOL UK Journal, appropriately-titled Lebanon.

Taking what I can only call a quick, cursory look, here a small sampling of Journals that come up when you do a Journals search on Lebanon -- most are political bloggers, so I will highlight main pages, not particular entries:

* Old Hickory's Weblog - I'm not sure why, but Bruce seems to have a lock on the first page or so of search results. He's coming from the left side of things.

* Freedom's Domain - Laura comes from the right side, and she's taking a more personal angle, highlighting some of the debates and responses she gets in other forums.

* Martellazos - John lives in Miami; not surprisingly his latest entry is about Castro, though he's got a running tally on the Middle East conflict, mixed in with Stargate commentary and updates on his washer-dryer.

* THE NEWS JUNKIE'S VOICE - Jofarr9's entries about the conflict have an eye towards commenting on the media's coverage of events.

Again, this is just a sampling of political Journalers.

If you're looking for like-minded readers or potential debating partners, consider tagging your entries with the relevant descriptive label or "tag." Using tags does two things:

1. It labels your entry so that it can get picked up by different blog searches.

2. It acts as a link to that particular blog search (in this case, Technorati), so that you can see what other blog entries share that tag.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: aol journals, lebanon