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The Israel Defense Forces Spokesman's Office is to begin drafting computer experts with an eye toward establishing an Internet and new media department unit, Army Spokesman Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu said Monday. Speaking at the Eilat Journalists Conference, Benayahu said the new department would focus on the Internet's social media networks mainly to reach an international audience directly rather than through the regular media. The new unit, as well as an initiative by the Information and Diaspora Ministry to train people to represent Israel independently on the Internet and in other arenas, were presented Monday at the conference during a panel discussion on Israeli public relations abroad. Advertisement Responding to criticism of Israel's ability to face hostile entities on the Web, Benayahu said the new program would be able to deal with the problem. He said that from each group drafted to the Army Spokesman's Office, between eight to 10 young people who are experts in Web 2.0 -... - howard shippin

The creator of gmail comments on Google Wave - howard shippin

Using Friendfeed's file upload feature, the concept works perfectly for html files, so that it's possible already now to create a blog based only on a microblogging service (and the commenting and possibly search functions work better in Friendfeed too). What Friendfeed needs to do (but probably never will now), is create a better-developed user page. - howard shippin