{"id":2445,"date":"2004-04-27T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/watch-what-you-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:11:53","slug":"watch-what-you-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/27\/watch-what-you-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch what you blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen &#8212; and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we&#8217;re getting news stories about it &#8212; US intelligence agencies are starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/ibd\/20040427\/bs_ibd_ibd\/2004427tech\" title=\"Yahoo! News: Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials\">keep an eye out on weblogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Some blogs are whimsical and deal with &#8220;soft&#8221; subjects. Others, though, are cutting edge in delivering information and opinion.<\/p>\n<p>  As a result, some analysts say U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials might be starting to track blogs for important bits of information. This interest is a sign of how far Web media such as blogs have come in reshaping the data-collection habits of intelligence professionals and others, even with the knowledge that the accuracy of what&#8217;s reported in some blogs is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>  Still, a panel of folks who work in the U.S. intelligence field &#8211; some of them spies or former spies &#8211; discussed this month at a conference in Washington the idea of tracking blogs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I think these guys are just trying to find an excuse for why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/\" title=\"Drew Curtis' FARK.com\">Fark<\/a> keep showing up in the CIA webserver logs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dashes.com\/links\/archives\/20040425.php#012945\" title=\"Anil Dash's daily links: intelligence officials tracking blogs?\">Anil<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Little Horn&#8221; by Marilyn Manson from the album <em>Antichrist Superstar<\/em> (1996, 2:43).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen &mdash; and realistically, it probably has been happening, just now we&#8217;re getting news stories about it &mdash; US intelligence agencies are starting to keep an eye out on weblogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040,2042],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}